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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Apr 19, 2011 18:18:44 GMT 1
from the club web site
It is with great sadness that Blackpool FC announces the passing of former player and manager Allan Brown.
Brown, 84, joined The Seasiders for a fee of £26,500 from Scottish side East Fife in 1950 but missed the 1951 and 1953 FA Cup finals due to injury, with a broken leg ruling him out of the victory in the latter. He made over 150 appearances in midfield and returned to manage the club on two separate occasions.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Apr 19, 2011 18:48:02 GMT 1
East Fife Brown started his professional playing career at East Fife, joining them in 1944 from his local side Kennoway. Brown made his full Scotland debut whilst with East Fife in April 1950, a 3-1 win over Switzerland at Hampden Park. This was followed in the same season by two further games away to Portugal and France, as well as helping his club team win the League Cup. Brown made 62 league appearance for the Fifers, scoring 20 goals as well as numerous cup appearances. He left in December 1950. [edit]Blackpool Brown moved to Blackpool for a fee of £26,500 (then the largest fee received by a Scottish club), joining compatriots Jackie Mudie, Ewan Fenton, Hugh Kelly and goalkeeper George Farm, where he earned the nickname Bomber.
At Blackpool he enjoyed success; however, he missed the Seasiders' 1951 FA Cup Final appearance after injuring his knee ten days earlier. He also missed the famous 1953 FA Cup Final victory after breaking his leg whilst scoring an 88th-minute winner in the quarter-final against Arsenal on 28 February 1953.
While at Blackpool, Brown won a further eleven international caps, scoring against Wales at both the start of the 1952-53 and 1953-54 seasons. Brown was selected for the 22-man squad for the 1954 World Cup finals. The Scottish FA decided to take only 13 of the 22 to the finals. Brown was among those who travelled. Brown's final two games came in the finals against Austria and Uruguay.
On 5 May 1976, Brown was appointed manager of another of his former playing clubs, Blackpool, who at the time were in the Second Division. The following season saw them battle for promotion and eventually finish in fifth place, missing out on a return to Division one by two points. During the next season the club were again challenging for promotion, but after an argument with chairman Billy Cartmell, on 6 February 1978 Brown was sacked. Cartmell had made remarks in a daily newspaper about Brown's job being on the line despite five-goal home wins in recent games, to which Brown responded by calling the chairman a "back-stabbing rat", which the board felt was unacceptable. After his departure, Blackpool won only one more game, dropped down the table, and were narrowly relegated at the end of the season.
Later that year he moved to Kuwait to manage Quadsia, but returned to manage Blackpool in March 1981 as a replacement for Alan Ball; however, he was unable to prevent their relegation to Division Four for the first time in their history. The following season saw a mid-table finish, and Brown left Blackpool in May 1982.
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Post by bigjohncraven on Apr 19, 2011 18:55:25 GMT 1
Thats sad news,he was a real servant of the club and did all he could in spite of bloody Cartmell being in charge.
Let's hope the club marks his passing Saturday.
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Post by april13th1970 on Apr 19, 2011 19:02:18 GMT 1
A sad day with the passing of, for me, one of the 2 best managers the club has had in my lifetime.
Like BJC I hope the club mark his passing in an appropriate manner
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Post by yeoldetangerine on Apr 19, 2011 21:04:18 GMT 1
Great manager during a time I really enjoyed, till the back stabbing incident.
A gentleman who will not be forgotten in Blackpool
RIP
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Post by yenilira on Apr 19, 2011 21:39:33 GMT 1
A sad day in the annals of Blackpool Football Club.
I trust the Club will mark his passing in an appropriate manner this Saturday.
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YL.
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Post by mickyg on Apr 20, 2011 10:23:16 GMT 1
Too young to remember him as a player but as a manager for us in the '70's he was up there with the best and should never have been treated so despicably by Cartmell and the board!
A very sad day.
RIP Allan.
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Post by sandgrown'un on Apr 20, 2011 11:17:53 GMT 1
Really sad to hear the news about Allan Brown. He was a great servant of Blackpool FC which was tarnished by his outrageous treatment by Cartmell.
I can vaguely remember him playing but my dad said he saw him once break the net with a ferocious shot. Another Blackpool legend sadly gone but never forgotten.
Like others have said, I do hope he gets a send off on Saturday befitting of a great player and manager of our beloved club.
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Apr 20, 2011 16:06:09 GMT 1
A very sad day indeed, he was a great player part of those superb Pool teams of the fifties and remember him on a hattrick against Charlton, we won 8 - 4 and riding high top of the old first division in a season or so before our Wembley win over Bolton. As for the events of 1978 when manager and a excellent one at that, disrupted the teams performance and caused a lot of bad feeling at the time with reprocussions in the years following. RIP Allan Brown. Never to be forgotten.
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Post by yenilira on Apr 25, 2011 13:48:25 GMT 1
Somebody on the board in the last couple of days said something along the lines that there wasn't any sort of tribute at the Newcastle game..............
but according to the 'Gazette' there was - (and I quote)
"...was marked before kickoff on Saturday with the laying of flowers behind goal at the North Stand end of Bloomfield Road. .... Pool PA man Tony Parr read out a tribute to Brown and the home fans responded with a standing ovation which lasted several minutes."
YL.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Apr 27, 2011 16:19:48 GMT 1
urm yes they laid some flowers but the PA system is rubbish in the south. and i only noticed because they put his name on the big screen. Why could we not just have had a min before the game like everybody else does
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