Grant Brown

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Grant Brown
Full name	Grant Ashley Brown
Date of birth	November 19, 1969 (1969-11-19) (age 38)
Place of birth	Sunderland, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Central defender
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988-1989 1989-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005-2006	Leicester City Lincoln City Telford United Alfreton Town Grantham Town	014 0(0) 407 (15) 035 0(0) 083 0(1) 042 0(6)
Teams managed
2007	Lincoln City (caretaker)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Grant Ashley Brown (born November 19, 1969 in Sunderland, England) is an English former footballer. He is presently Youth Team Coach at Lincoln City but, having been Caretaker Manager prior to the appointment of Peter Jackson, has taken a more active role with the first team since Jackson's appointment.

After beginning his professional career with Leicester City in 1988, he made 14 appearances for the Foxes before then Lincoln City manager Colin Murphy persuaded him to join the team at Sincil Bank.

Between 1989 and 2002, Grant went onto to make a club record^[1] 407 league appearances for The Imps, scoring 15 goals. He called time on his playing career at Lincoln under the tenure of Alan Buckley and he went onto to spend a season with Telford United and two with Alfreton Town.

In July 2005, Grant agreed a deal^[2] to join Worksop Town for the 2005-2006 season. However, in August 2005 he was appointed Youth Team Coach at Lincoln City, a role which was incompatible with the training requirements at Worksop and so Brown was allowed to cancel his agreement with Worksop and sign instead for Grantham Town^[3]. He would spend a season with Grantham before the increasing commitments at Lincoln City bought his playing career to an end at the age of 36.

When John Schofield and John Deehan were sacked by Lincoln City on October 15, 2007 following a disappointing start to the 2007-2008 season culminating in a 4-0 defeat away to Paul Ince's league leaders, MK Dons, Brown was appointed caretaker manager until the appointment of Peter Jackson.^[4] Following Jackson's appointment, Brown remained a presence on the bench at first-team matches. With Jackson currently undergoing treatment for throat cancer, Brown has assisted Lincoln's temporary manager^[5] Iffy Onuora.

[edit] Notes

^ "Appearances - Football League", Lincoln City F.C., 29 February 2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
^ "Glavin swoops for defender Brown", Worksop Guardian, 14 July 2005. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
^ "Town boss captures Imps record holder", Grantham Journal, 12 August 2005. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
^ "Lincoln City sack boss Schofield", BBC Sport, 2007-10-15. Retrieved on 2007-10-15.
^ The Managers. The Official Lincoln City Archive. Retrieved on 2008-04-29.

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Lincoln City F.C. – Managers

Calderhead (1900–07) • Henry (1907–14) • Fraser (1919–21) • Calderhead, Jnr. (1921–24) • Henshall (1924–27) • Parkes (1927–36) • McClelland (1936–46) • Anderson (1946–65) • Chapman (1965–66) • Gray (1966–70) • Loxley (1970–71) • Herd (1971–72) • Taylor (1972–77) • Kerr (1977) • Bell (1977–78) • Murphy (1978–85) • Pickering (1985) • Kerr (1985–87) • Daniel (1987) • Murphy (1987–90) • Clarke (1990) • Thompson (1990–93) • Alexander (1993–94) • Ellis (1994–95) • Wicks (1995) • Beck (1995–97) • Westley (1997–98) • Reames (1998–2000) • Stant (2000–01) • Buckley (2001–02) • Alexander (2002–06) • Deehan & Schofield (2006–07) • Brown (2007) • Jackson (2007–)

v • d • e Lincoln City F.C. – current squad

2 Green • 5 Beevers • 6 Brown • 7 Frecklington • 8 Forrester • 11 Kerr • 13 Duffy • 15 Wright • 17 N'Guessan • 20 Warlow • 21 King • 23 Clarke • 25 Pembleton • 27 Hone • 29 John-Lewis • Acting Manager: Onuora