Ged Brannan

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Personal information
Ged Brannan
Full name	Gerard Brannan
Date of birth	January 15, 1972 (1972-01-15) (age 36)
Place of birth	Prescot, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Vauxhall Motors
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990-1997 1997-1998 1998 1998-2001 2001-2003 2003 2003 2003-2005 2005 2005-2007 2007-	Tranmere Rovers Manchester City → Norwich City (loan) Motherwell Wigan Athletic → Dunfermline Athletic (loan) → Rochdale (loan) Accrington Stanley Radcliffe Borough Morecambe Vauxhall Motors	238 (20) 42 (4) 11 (1) 81 (16) 52 (0) 8 (0) 11 (1) 49 (7) 11 (0) 55 (1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ged Brannan is an English former footballer, born on 15 January 1972. He played as a midfielder.

Ged had a well-travelled career, beginning at Tranmere Rovers, before a £750,000 transfer to Manchester City F.C in March 1997.

Mostly used as a squad player at Manchester City, he was loaned to Norwich City between August and October 1998, and was then sold to Motherwell for £375,000 in October 1998, thus terminating his spell at Norwich.

Brannan moved onto Wigan in February 2001, where he remained until November 2003, spending short loan spells at Dunfermline and Rochdale F.C.

A free transfer to Accrington Stanley in November 2003 was next on the agenda, where Ged spent two seasons.

After leaving Stanley, Ged spent a short period playing for Radcliffe Borough before signing for Morecambe in November 2005, making his debut against Cambridge United. Shortly before the match, Morecambe manager Jim Harvey suffered a heart attack. Morecambe lost the first match 1-0.

Signed by Harvey as a midfielder, Brannan was soon dropped by caretaker manager Sammy McIlroy, but eventually made the right back position his own, after filling in for an injury and putting in several impressive performances.

Brannan saw himself out of the team again at the start of the 2006-7 season, as Adam Yates was brought to Morecambe to play at right-back. Brannan has filled in central defence during the absence of club captain Jim Bentley through injury and made several appearances in midfield.

In December 2006, it was announced Brannan would be moving to Southport to take the assistant manager position, as club manager Paul Cook was a personal friend. However, Cook was sacked from Southport before the move could take place in the January transfer window, and subsequently Brannan has decided to stay with Morecambe for the time being. His Morecambe squad number for the 2006-7 season was 12.

Following Morecambe F.C's promotion to the football league after a 2-1 victory over Exeter City, Brannan announced his retirement from the game after leading the team up to collect their winners medals and play-off trophy.

On 2nd November, 2007 Brannan came out of retirement and signed for Vauxhall Motors and made his debut the next day at Rivacre Park in their home game against Worcester City.