Phil Brown

Phil Brown
Personal information
Full name	Philip Brown
Date of birth	30 May 1959 (1959-05-30) (age 50)
Place of birth	South Shields, County Durham, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Right-back
Club information
Current club	Hull City (manager)
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1978–1985 1985–1988 1988–1994 1994–1996	Hartlepool United Halifax Town Bolton Wanderers Blackpool Total	217 00(8) 135 0(19) 256 0(14) 044 00(5) 652 0(46)
Teams managed
1999 2005–2006 2006–	Bolton Wanderers (caretaker) Derby County Hull City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Philip "Phil" Brown (born 30 May 1959 in South Shields, County Durham, England) is an English former footballer and the current manager of Hull City. As a player, Brown was a right-back who made over six hundred league appearances in an eighteen-year career, but never made it to the top flight. However, as a manager, he became the first to lead Hull City to the top division in their 104-year history, winning the Championship play-offs in 2008.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 2.1 Coaching 2.2 Derby County 2.3 Hull City 2.3.1 Championship and Promotion 2.3.2 Premier League 3 Statistics 3.1 Manager 4 Honours 4.1 Manager 4.1.1 Promotions 5 Awards 6 Personal life 7 References 8 External links

Playing career

Educated in the northeast, his chemistry teacher was Olympic runner Brendan Foster,^[1] who tried to encourage him to take up running over football.

Brown started his career playing Sunday league football for South Shields side Red Duster in the South Shields Business Houses League, in the same team as Ray Dunbar and Bobby Davison who went on to play for Derby County and Leeds United,^{[citation needed]}.

As a professional, Brown played at full back for many years with Hartlepool United and Halifax Town (with fellow north easterner Billy Ayre at both clubs and under him at the latter),^[2] Bolton Wanderers and finally at Blackpool, under Sam Allardyce, in 1996.

Managerial career

Coaching

Brown started taking his coaching badges while playing for Bolton, encouraged by Bruce Rioch.^[3] His first managerial role was as assistant to Sam Allardyce at Blackpool.^[4] He returned to Bolton Wanderers after his playing career ended and served as assistant manager to Colin Todd. Following Todd's departure in 1999, he took charge of the team as caretaker manager, winning four games out of five, until the appointment of Sam Allardyce. He then served as Allardyce's assistant for six years, before deciding to forge his own career as a manager.

Derby County

Brown's first full time senior management position was at Derby County, where he succeeded George Burley in June 2005. His time at Derby County proved to be unsuccessful and he was sacked just seven months into his tenure in January 2006, after a 6–1 league defeat against Coventry City, followed by a 3–1 defeat to Colchester in the FA Cup fourth round. Derby were in 19th place when Brown departed.^[5]

Hull City

Brown was appointed as first-team coach at Hull City on 27 October 2006 under Phil Parkinson, and took over as joint caretaker manager alongside Colin Murphy on 4 December 2006 after Parkinson's sacking, with Hull in 22nd place in the Football League Championship. After taking Hull out of the relegation zone with three wins and a draw in the six matches as caretaker manager, he was appointed as the permanent manager of the club on 4 January 2007.

Championship and Promotion

Brown went on to lead The Tigers to Championship safety and the following season Hull City won promotion to the top level of English football for the first time in the club's 104-year history, by beating Bristol City at Wembley in the Championship play-off final on 24 May 2008. Brown described this as "the best day of my life, without a shadow of a doubt".^[6]

Premier League

Brown was rewarded with a new three-year contract, which he signed on the weekend of Hull City's first ever top-flight match, a 2–1 victory over Fulham on 16 August 2008.^[7] On 28 September Brown managed Hull to a famous 2-1 away victory over Arsenal. It was only Arsenal's second ever defeat at the Emirates Stadium and was described by the Hull press as the greatest victory in the clubs history. After a 1–0 victory at bottom of the table Tottenham Hotspur the following weekend, and an 3–0 away victory at the also newly promoted West Bromwich Albion, he was awarded the Manager-of-the-Month award for Hull's performances in September.

The first nine games Hull spent as a top division club resulted in six wins as they occupied third place in the Premier League and were only being kept off the top by Liverpool and Arsenal having superior goal difference.

The remainder of the season was not so easy for Brown, as the team struggled to pick up the remaining points necessary to avoid relegation, and he was involved in several controversial incidents. In November 2008 he was fined £1,000 and warned about his future conduct by the FA after he admitted a charge of improper conduct. The charge related to a game against Wigan in August which Hull lost 5–0.^[8] On 26 December 2008, following a poor first half performance by Hull in a league match against Manchester City, Brown conducted his half-time team-talk on the pitch, in full view of the crowd and at the end of the pitch where the Hull supporters had been sitting.^[9][10] Brown was again charged with misconduct for his behaviour in an FA Cup tie against Newcastle United in January. During the match Brown and Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear were both sent to the stands after a confrontation in which Brown verbally abused Newcastle's assistant manager Chris Hughton.^[11] Brown admitted the charge and was subsequently fined £2,500 and warned as to his future conduct by the Football Association.^[12] On 17 March 2009, Brown claimed that he saw Arsenal midfielder and captain Cesc Fàbregas spit at the feet of his assistant manager Brian Horton following Hull's 2–1 FA Cup defeat and elimination at the Emirates. Fabregas was cleared of the accusation on 22 May 2009.^[13] After the game Brown also falsely claimed that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger had refused to shake his hand at of their two previous meetings that season.^{[14][15][16][17]} Brown faced his third improper conduct charge of the season in relation to comments he made about referee Mike Riley after the Arsenal match. He denied the offence but was found guilty in a June hearing and once again fined £2,500 and warned about his future conduct.^[18]

On 24 May 2009, despite suffering a 1–0 loss to Manchester United, Brown led Hull City to survival in the Premier League due to Newcastle United losing to Aston Villa. Hull finished in 17th place, one point above Newcastle, who also lost. Brown stated that this was the greatest achievement in his managerial career and the club's history. At the end of the game, Brown famously went onto the pitch with a microphone and started singing (a modified version of) "Sloop John B" to the crowd.^[19]

In the summer of 2009 Brown looked to strengthen his side. He attempted to sign former England international striker Michael Owen and former Tiger Fraizer Campbell, but was unsuccessful. Brown did manage to sign Seyi Olofinjana, Jozy Altidore (on loan from Villarreal), Kamel Ghilas, Stephen Hunt, Paul McShane, and he also signed Ibrahima Sonko on transfer deadline day on loan from Stoke City - after the departure of Michael Turner to Sunderland. Steven Mouyokolo also joined after he was initially purchased on 30 January 2009. Free agent Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink signed for the Tigers on 3 September 2009.

Statistics

Manager

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Bolton Wanderers (caretaker)		22 September 1999	19 October 1999	&0000000000000005.0000005	&0000000000000004.0000004	&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1.0000000	&0000000000000001.0000001	&0000000000000080.00000080.00
Derby County		24 June 2005	30 January 2006	&0000000000000033.00000033	&0000000000000007.0000007	&0000000000000014.00000014	&0000000000000012.00000012	&0000000000000021.21000021.21
Hull City		4 December 2006	Present	&0000000000000144.000000144	&0000000000000051.00000051	&0000000000000036.00000036	&0000000000000057.00000057	&0000000000000035.42000035.42
Total				&0000000000000182.000000182	&0000000000000062.00000062	&0000000000000050.00000050	&0000000000000070.00000070	&0000000000000034.07000034.07

As of 12 December 2009.^[20]

Honours

Manager

Promotions

• 2007–08: The Championship Playoff Winner (promotion to Premier League) - Hull City

Awards

• Hull City
  • Premier League Manager of the Month: 2008–09 (September)^[21]

Personal life

Brown is married to Karen and they have two children, Jamie and Sophie.^[3] His parents were Ronnie and Peggy, who passed on a love of football and Sunderland Football Club.^[3] At school, one of his teachers was long-distance runner Brendan Foster.^[3]

In September 2009, Brown claimed to have saved a suicidal woman from jumping off the Humber Bridge,^[22] however The Humber Bridge Board, who operate the bridge, were unaware of the incident.^[23]

References

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Phil Brown (footballer born 1959)

• Brown's playing career stats at Soccerbase
• Brown's management career stats at Soccerbase
• Profile at Neil Brown's statistics site
• BBC Sport profile

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