"I got my electrical head on and fixed a couple of fuses and got the dumbwaiter working again. So now the food is upstairs and the physio is downstairs."
Still our most successful manager to date, hope we crush his team tomorrow though i thought the singing at the end of the season was brilliant, obscure certainly, but it was passionate and in two years we'd gone from almost relegation to league 1 to staying up in the premier league
Why Phil Brown will always be remembered as a hero at Hull City Phil Brown: Hull City manager is generally considered to be a joke. A sun-tanned caricature with a goatee beard, a Madonna-microphone and a pink jumper draped over his shoulders. Ask people about Brown and they’ll inevitably remember the team talk on the pitch at Man City on Boxing Day – or the sing-song on the pitch when relegation was avoided. Ask locally and you’re more likely to hear about the time Phil claimed to have talked a suicidal gent down from the Humber Bridge, his over-active social life or the man who epitomised Brown’s decline and legacy – Jimmy Bullard. One day though, history will look back on Phil and show a man whose achievement were vast. One day the pink jumper and the beige brogues will be long forgotten but the memory of his greatest days will live forever. Even that team talk on the pitch, as unbelievable and unnecessary as it was, will never overshadow the fact that 2008 was the greatest year any Hull City fan could ever (and will ever) live. That was the year the Hull City team built in Brown’s image – aggressive, enthusiastic and self-confident – grew from rank outsiders in the race for a Championship play-off place to Premier League pace-setters. It was an achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact that months earlier, Brown had saved The Tigers from dropping into League One and only by the skin of their teeth. Great days and unforgettable memories were made regularly over the first 11 months of 2008, such as winning at champions-elect West Brom and then smashing Watford in the Championship play-off semi final. Going on to beat Fulham in a dream Premier League debut, taking three points from St. James Park, White Hart Lane and The Emirates – all good memories. And lets not forget frightening Man Utd to death in a 3-4 defeat at Old Trafford – and leading 2-0 at Anfield before settling for a deserved draw. But the crowning moment will, I believe, stand forever as the greatest day in the club’s history. Brown led out his side at Wembley in front of 38,000 fans in black and amber. Dean Windass burst the Bristol City net just before half time and English football’s greatest underachievers had their day of all days in the sun. Two years after Wembley – I couldn’t stand Phil Brown. The decline on the pitch and the state of the club’s finances left a very sour taste. The finances weren’t Brown’s responsibility but he was culpable. He and ex-Chairman Paul Duffen had fiddled (not literally) while Rome burned to the ground. Time is a great healer though. The club has recovered while Brown has suffered more than most. His achievements have been lost beneath an avalanche of ego, fake tan and football clichés. That’s a shame. Because for all of his flaws – Phil Brown was responsible for the greatest memories football has ever given me. And for that – I think he’s a hero. http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/24/why-p...be-remembered-as-a-hero-at-hull-city-4274513/
Browny brought success to City & i'm thankful. I'm down there tomorrow and i hope we win, but i also want to see how Will Atkinson & Browny are getting on.
Yes, the above article sums it up nicely. I wonder if the reception the City fans give Browny tomorrow will match the one Tony Pullis at Palace got from the Stoke away fans last week? http://english-football-league.co.u...is-emotional-after-win-over-stoke-1390069425/ For the benefit of those of us who can't make it I hope you give it a good go. Now that would be a class act.
"Crossing the white line and wearing the shirt with pride" - what more could you ask for? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...hil-Browns-big-time-ready-maul-Hull-City.html
i really don't understand how anyone can slate brownie? we almost got relegated to league 1, then 2 years later, we end up surviving a premier league season... never in my wildest dreams would i of expected that.. fair enough there was some disasters along the way.. but he gave us those experiences and i'm very sure we wouldn't be where we are today if it wasn't for brownie fair enough he made mistakes.. but he was a unique manager and i ****ing love him.. i WISH i was going to southend tomorrow, but i just can't afford it... being a poor bastard sucks since we have never won a trophy he is our most successful manager ever thus far..
He was, and still is, a character. Gave me some of my happiest times in football and some of the most cringey. On balance Id say his heart was in the right place, he exceeded his own, and our expectations and got a little carried away, didn't hurt anyone and seems like a nice, genuine fella. I will always remember him fondly.
To clarify my position. I'm a Phil Brown fan and the links posted are tongue-in-cheek. He was great for us at the time and entertained us all. Sure he made plenty of mistakes but who doesn't? Although his ego got in the way at times I really do think he cared about the fans and that's very important. Here's hoping for a good game today. May the best team win.
If I ever meet Phil in a pub I'll offer him a drink. He gave it his all and you can't ask any more. He'll forever be synonymous with the most exciting period of our club's history.
+1 Mad as a box of frogs, a genuine character, something football is sadly lacking in any numbers nowadays.
Sums it up perfectly for me. The Wembley win and the successive wins over the London sides taking us to 3rd or 4th in the Premiership under Phil were the most exciting period I can remember in my 65 years as a supporter. I hope Phil gets a big cheer from you lads at the game tomorrow and gets Southend promoted this year as a step to managing again in the top flights. Thanks Phil and good luck in the rest of your managerial career.
When I first met my husband in 1968 and he talked about Hull City he had that impossible dream. His grandfather since 1905 and father since 1912 had dreamed too but never saw the day the top tier was reached. My husband who started his support from 1946 was not at Wembley believing he would bring the team bad luck! Subsequently he wrote a lovely letter to Phil Brown citing his family history and thanking him and the club for the achievement and received a lovely reply. My husband told him that the next objective should be to take Hull City to a Wembley FA Cup Final and complete the double impossible dream!
Loved the interview. Seriously how can anyone not like him. When he talks about the team "crossing the white line" and having pride in the shirt etc you can fully understand why he did the sit on the pitch team talk. OK it may have been a mistake but his heart was in the right place. He did have a good relationship with the fans and he felt the team were letting them down when they had paid a lot of money to be there. Hope we win but that Southend have a really good game and come close with Brownie getting a great reception from the City lot.
As I have posted a gazillion times, I'm pretty sure we had lost 1 (was it, stat fans?) away games up until that point that season and that was at Man Utd. This was an incredible achievement for a newly promoted side and even if we were 15-0 down at half time the players who had done so fantastically up until that point did not deserve this. I always felt Brown did The Teamtalk cos he publicly had announced the players had been allowed Christmas off and he felt he'd get the blame for being so naive and soft. So he preempted this and played the tough guy so publicly.
If we lose, today and the FA get it wrong, today could be the last ever FA Cup game Hull City play. How ironic that it would be Phil Brown in charge of the opposition. Lead us to our highest point, and closes a chapter.
A typical gutsy, underdog performance from Phil Brown's team yesterday. With a bit of luck it could have been closer than the result suggests. Anyway, I guess it will be some time before our paths cross again so here's hoping you get promoted and receive the attention you deserve once again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_OBPLrX22g
