Wayne Brown (goalkeeper)
Brown playing for Bury in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Wayne Larry Brown | ||
| Date of birth | 14 January 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Southampton, England | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Oxford United (goalkeeping coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992 | Bashley | ||
| 1993–1995 | Bristol City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1996 | Bristol City | 1 | (0) |
| 1996 | Weston-super-Mare | ? | (?) |
| 1996–2006 | Chester City | 298 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | → Hereford United (loan) | 33 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Hereford United | 83 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Bury | 76 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Supersport United | 13 | (0) |
| 2011–2017 | Oxford United | 6 | (0) |
| Total | 510 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 2001–2003 | England C | 7 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Wayne Larry Brown (born 14 January 1977) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeping coach at Oxford United.
Born in Southampton, former bricklayer Brown made a switch from Bashley to Bristol City for £40,000 in December 1992. Between 1993 and 1996 he made only 24 appearance for the Robins due to a number of injuries. Although only one of these was for the first team, a 4–1 win over Peterborough on 8 May 1994, he was awarded Man of the Match. After a brief spell with Weston-super-Mare he joined Chester City in September 1996, initially as cover for Ronnie Sinclair (who had an elbow injury and needed surgery) and then in direct competition with Neil Cutler. In a ten-season stint with the club he made 289 appearances, becoming first-choice keeper in the 1999–2000 season, the first of two seasons in which he did not miss a league match.
While at Chester he made seven appearances for the England National Game XI semi-professional side. Unfortunately he suffered an injury in training in December 2003 that sidelined him for the remainder of the 2003–04 season, as Chester ended the season as Football Conference champions. He enjoyed a testimonial match against former players in May 2004 and returned to the side at the start of the next season, but was deemed surplus to requirements in May 2005 and dropped back into the Conference for a season-long loan with Hereford United.
Brown was the first-choice keeper for Hereford in Conference matches (but was not allowed by Chester to play in cup games) and was an integral part of the best defence in the Conference that season, conceding just 30 goals. He became a fans' favourite, earning the nickname 'Superman'. In the 2006 Conference play-off final with just a few minutes to go in extra time, Brown sustained a head injury in a collision. With all three substitutions made it looked for a moment as if he would be unable to continue, but after several minutes he recovered and even made a good save in the dying minutes to keep Hereford 3–2 up. Hereford went on to win the match and promotion to the Football League, and Brown signed for Hereford permanently soon afterwards.
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