Des Bremner

George Desmond " Des " Bremner ( born September 7, 1952 in Aberchirder ) is a former Scottish footballer. Used mostly in the right side of midfield, he won two Scottish Hibernian runner-up, moved in 1979 to England, where she won with Aston Villa 1981, the English league title and a year later the European Cup of Champions. Because of its advantages, which expressed itself in more militant and runs generic range as in technical skills, its contribution to the successes in retrospect was somewhat neglected, which earned him the reputation of an " unsung heroes " earned.

Sports career

Hibernian Edinburgh (1972-1979)

Bremner grew up in a rural area in which consisting of just three streets village Aberchirder. As one of eight children, he escaped the boredom with biking and swimming, but especially football had it done to him. The director of his school already put it as a ten year old in a U- 15 team and later he landed in the junior department of the nearby Aberdeen FC. The first team of the " Dons " was then looked after by Eddie Turnbull and it is this Turnbull remembered the hard-working itself Bremner, as he was then changed at the beginning of the 1970s in the Scottish capital to Hibernian. Bremner had just once just denied a dozen games for the FC Deveronvale and from December 1972, he then found himself in the position of right-back in the " Hibs " again - over the next few years he has become, finally, a midfielder.

With eleven stakes in the remaining parts of the Erstligasaison 1972/73 he helped the club to jump on a good third place behind the overpowering bulk Glasgow clubs Celtic and Rangers. The 2-1 League Cup final victory against Celtic in December although he was neither represented as in the 7-0 victory against local rivals Heart of Midlothian, but especially the first European appearance away to Hajduk Split in the Europa Cup Winners' Cup was despite leaving the quarter-finals a sustainable impressive experience for a young man who was working next to the football on most evenings and weekends on the home farm. In the following three years, Bremner played more and more in a key position and with two runner-up in 1974 and 1975 and a third place a year later, the team was in each case a serious contender for the league title. During this time he completed after only nine appearances for the Scottish U -23 on April 7, 1976 against Switzerland (1-0 ) its only 'A' game for the " Bravehearts ". The trophies remained during his time in Edinburgh with the exception of Drybrough Cup 1974 - a tournament with the teams on the top four league places - and from season 1977/78 the team slipped into midfield. The last highlight was the 1979 final at the Scottish FA Cup, which was lost after a hard fight and the first two scoreless games in the third game against the Rangers with 2:3.

Bremner saw the time as come to prove himself at another club and next to Billy McNeill of Celtic particularly Rangers manager John Greig was interested. With European matches against top English clubs like Liverpool or Leeds United but he was also on the Scottish borders, known and so he joined in September 1979 for the transfer fee of 275,000 pounds to Birmingham at Aston Villa - Hibs went up by the way the following year in the second division from.

Aston Villa (1979-1984)

As a right midfielder he met on his debut for the "Villans " against Arsenal in a direct duel to the technically unequal beschlageneren Liam Brady and solved the problem in the 0-0 draw satisfactory. Under his new coach Ron Saunders - as Turnbull notorious as " disciplinarian " - he immediately had a regular place safely and in the further course of the season 1979/80 he was missing in any single competitive match more. In the following year he was with 46 duty stakes " ever present " and it - like his Scottish team-mate Ken McNaught and Allan Evans - an important part of the team that surprisingly won the English championship. Following was his contribution to the great success slightly below, because the more prominent players were captain Dennis Mortimer, striker Peter Withe, the other striker Tony Morley and Gary Shaw and Gordon Cowans playmaker.

Although in the 1981/82 season participation was seen primarily at the European Champions Cup only as an adventure, the team sat there on to a triumphant and after wins against Valur Reykjavík, BFC Dynamo, Dynamo Kiev and RSC Anderlecht saw suddenly in the final of the favored Bayern Munich against. There was Bremner, who had also participated in all the games before, the role to take from the game in the middle and at the end of Paul Breitner Aston Villa won the final game after a hit by Peter Withe 1-0. Later Bremner won after a win against FC Barcelona nor the European Supercup; only a 0-2 defeat in Tokyo against Peñarol in the World Cup prevented the complete triumph in December 1982.

Meanwhile Saunders ' Kotrainer Tony Barton took over the sports management after poor performances in the league and in the following two years were from other tracks. The team disappeared gradually in the league midfield and Bremner came in the 1983/84 season only sporadically to the course. When, in September 1984, former coach Saunders, who had now hired at Birmingham City, expressed his interest in signing, Bremner did not hesitate and joined the recently relegated to the second division rivals.

Last stations (1984-1992)

While Bremner helped his new employer in the first season to a rebirth, but in the English Elite League, the "Blues " could not keep up, and returned in the 1985/86 season as a table next to last on a direct path back to the second division back. Under new coach John Bond and later suffered Garry Pendry and then Dave Mackay put the team then a descent to sporting and 1989 you had even relegation to the third tier. Bremner was there no longer came in the crucial period from March 1989 to use and in August 1989 it moved the nearly 37 -year-olds again to London to Fulham.

In addition players on the position of right-back Bremner was involved for the " Cottagers " in the 1989/90 season in the fight to avoid relegation in the third division and after just seven appearances in the starting eleven and six other games from March 1990 FC Walsall as a contract -free player ended his professional career. He then trailed off in the Football Conference, the active career at the Stafford Rangers. After his resignation, he began in the financial sector for the players union Professional Footballers' Association and in addition to working as an independent financial adviser.

Title / Awards

  • European Champions Cup ( 1): 1982
  • European Supercup ( 1): 1982
  • English Championship ( 1): 1981
  • Charity Shield ( 1): 1981
  • Drybrough Cup ( 1): 1973
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