Allan Brown (footballer)
Allan Duncan Brown ( born October 12, 1926 in Kennoway, † April 19, 2011 in Blackpool, England) was a Scottish football player and coach.
Career as a player
Brown played in 1944, first in the East Fife FC, having previously played at an amateur club in his hometown. In 1948 he went to the club on the first Scottish league and won the Scottish League Cup. In the first division he made the local leaders of the Scottish national attention to himself, so he made his debut with the national team in 1950. In the same year he won again with his club the Scottish League Cup. He then moved to FC Blackpool to England, where Jackie Mudie, Ewan Fenton, Hugh Kelly and George Farm already played more Scots. 1951 succeeded in reaching the final of the FA Cup, which was however lost to Newcastle United. Two years later the club won the Cup against Bolton Wanderers, after a broken leg earlier in the season, however, he could not play. In the 1954 World Cup, he was one of the 13 Scottish players who traveled to Switzerland. Without scoring in both games you returned as Table of the preliminary round group. In early 1957, he moved to Luton Town, where he once again reached the 1959 Cup final. Against Nottingham Forest, they lost 1:2. In 1960 he joined the Portsmouth until he played 1964-1966 as player-coach nor for Wigan Athletic.
Career as a coach
After the end of his career in 1966 he left Wigan Athletic and coached his former station Luton Town game. The fourth division he led in 1968 to the third tier. There was also good, but after it became known that he had sought for the vacant coaching job at Leicester City, he was released in December of this year. In January 1969, he took over the third division Torquay United, he coached up to a failed season starting in October 1971. In June 1972, he took over the Bury FC, which he led to twelfth place in the fourth division. In November 1973, he left the club to train the second division Nottingham Forest. Once the objective of that ascent had moved into distance, the club sacked him in late December in 1974 and replaced him with Brian Clough. There was a short engagement at FC Southport January to May 1976 and was hired by his former club Blackpool FC, with whom he only just missed out on promotion to the first division at the end of his first season. After a dispute with the club management however, he was dismissed in February 1978. After a short stay as manager in Kuwait in March 1981, he returned once more to Blackpool FC back, but could not prevent relegation to the fourth division. After the direct re-emergence was missed, its involvement in the summer of 1982 was over.