Phil Brown (footballer born 1959)
Brown in 2005
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Philip Brown | ||
| Date of birth | 30 May 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | South Shields, County Durham, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Right back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Southend United (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1978–1985 | Hartlepool United | 217 | (8) |
| 1985–1988 | Halifax Town | 135 | (19) |
| 1988–1994 | Bolton Wanderers | 256 | (14) |
| 1994–1996 | Blackpool | 44 | (5) |
| Total | 652 | (46) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1999 | Bolton Wanderers (caretaker) | ||
| 2005–2006 | Derby County | ||
| 2006–2010 | Hull City | ||
| 2011 | Preston North End | ||
| 2013– | Southend United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Philip "Phil" Brown (born 30 May 1959) is an English former professional footballer, coach and manager. He is currently manager of League One club Southend United. 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 after a 1–0 win against Bristol City at Wembley.
Since 2011, Brown has appeared as a match summariser on BBC Radio 5 Live as well as the station's sport panel show Fighting Talk, winning for the first time on 5 May 2012.
Born in South Shields, County Durham and educated in the North East, 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.
As a professional, Brown played at full back for many years with Hartlepool United, followed by a spell at Halifax Town (with fellow north easterner Billy Ayre at both clubs and under him at the latter), In 1988 he moved to Bolton Wanderers, winning the Associate Members Cup in 1989.
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