Malcolm Brown (English footballer)

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Malcolm Brown
Personal information
Date of birth (1956-12-13) 13 December 1956 (age 66)
Place of birth Salford, England
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) [1]
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
– Bury
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1973–1977 Bury 11 (0)
1977–1983 Huddersfield Town 256 (16)
1983–1985 Newcastle United 39 (0)
1985–1989 Huddersfield Town 96 (1)
1989 Rochdale 11 (0)
1989–1991 Stockport County 71 (3)
1991–1992 Rochdale 18 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Malcolm Brown (born 13 December 1956) is a former professional footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League in the 1970s and 1980s. He played as a right back for Bury, Huddersfield Town, where he spent the majority of his career, Newcastle United, Rochdale and Stockport County. [2]

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Brown began his career as an apprentice at Bury, [2] before moving to Huddersfield Town in 1977, where he helped the club to two promotions during Mick Buxton's reign as manager. He eventually left for Newcastle United in 1983, but missed the whole of the 1983–84 promotion season because of injury. [3] He returned to Huddersfield in 1985 for another four seasons, playing more than 400 games for the club in all. [4] He finished his professional career with two spells at Rochdale either side of two seasons with Stockport County. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Rollin, Jack, ed. (1990). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1990–91 (21st ed.). Queen Anne Press. p. 514. ISBN   0-356-17911-7.
  2. 1 2 3 "Malcolm Brown". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  3. ↑ Struthers, Greg (2 April 2006). "Caught in Time: Newcastle win promotion to the First Division, 1984". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  4. ↑ "Rolling back the years" (reprint). Huddersfield Daily Examiner. FindArticles. 3 March 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  5. ↑ Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 148.


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