- Brian Birch
Football player infobox
playername= Brian Birch
fullname = Brian Birch
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1938|4|9|df=y
cityofbirth =Manchester
countryofbirth =England
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
height =
position = Winger
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1955–1964
1964–1967
clubs = Bolton Wanderers
Rochdale
caps(goals) = 165 (23)
061 0(6)
pcupdate = 16:24, 11 September 2008Brian Birch, (born
9 April 1938 inManchester ), is a retired English footballer who played for the majority of his career at Bolton Wanderers. He played mostly as a winger.Birch made his debut for Bolton at the age of 16 in the autumn of 1954 but did not make the regular first team until the 1957-58 season. He was an ever present in Bolton's victorious FA Cup run. He remained a regular up to the 1961-62 season but was pushed out of the team by the arrival of
Brian Pilkington . Staying on the fringes for three more years he finally made the short journey acrossLancashire to Rochdale, where he remained for three more years before moving into non-league football.Birch's grandson, Will Johnson is currently a player for
Real Salt Lake of the MLSReferences
*cite book
author=Ivan Ponting and Barry Hugman
title=The Concise Post War History of Bolton Wanderers
publisher=Repvern Publishing
year=1994
id=ISBN 1-869833-27-9
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