Malcolm Brown (English footballer)

Malcolm Brown

Personal information
Full name	Malcolm Brown
Date of birth	13 December 1956 (1956-12-13) (age 54)
Place of birth	Salford, England
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[1]
Playing position	Right back
Youth career
–	Bury
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(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)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Malcolm Brown (born 13 December 1956 in Salford) 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]

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]

References

1. ^ Rollin, Jack, ed (1990). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1990–91 (21st ed.). Queen Anne Press. p. 514. ISBN 0-356-17911-7. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Malcolm Brown". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database. Neil Brown. http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/malcolmbrown.htm. Retrieved 10 December 2010. 
3. ^ Struthers, Greg (2 April 2006). "Caught in Time: Newcastle win promotion to the First Division, 1984". The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article701069.ece. Retrieved 2 December 2009. 
4. ^ "Rolling back the years" (reprint). Huddersfield Daily Examiner (FindArticles). 3 March 2006. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6784/is_2006_March_3/ai_n28333374/. Retrieved 2 December 2009. 

External links

• League stats at Neil Brown's site
• Player Profile at Newcastle United, a statistical journey... by K.H.Scott

Persondata
Name	Brown, Malcolm
Alternative names
Short description	Professional footballer
Date of birth	13 December 1956
Place of birth	Salford, England
Date of death
Place of death