Anyone remember Bobby Brown?

[noodles]

Re: Anyone remember Bobby Brown?

Found a signed copy at https://AbeBooks.co.uk".

[NinianKnight]

Re: Anyone remember Bobby Brown?

That was Robin Friday:hide:

:tumbleweed:

[splott parker]

Re: Anyone remember Bobby Brown?

:tumbleweed:

:hehe:Football withdrawal day bringing out your thin skin, follow the Donny/Bradford game to lighten yourself up, its lightening me up, 3-1 now:thumbup:

[Former Labour leader]

Re: Anyone remember Bobby Brown?

He only played for us over a couple of seasons (1966-67 and 1967-68) but suffered a serious knee injury against Aston Villa and eventually retired. He was an England amateur international and scored 2 goals against Brazil when representing Great Britain at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He eventually scored 4 goals over the 3 games, including 1 against Italy. He was offered the chance to join AC Milan but chose to tour Australasia with the FA XI. When he returned the AC Milan manager had left the club due to ill-health, so the move to Italy never happened.

Sorry, I'm rambling a bit. He's 85 now and a few years ago published his autobiography, All he can do is score goals - The life and times of Bobby Brown, with a limited print run.

Just wondering if anyone has come across the book. I'd love to be able to buy a copy, but haven't been able to track one down...

Bobby lives a few miles up the road from me here in Pembs. He was licensee of the Rising Sun, just outside Haverfordwest, for years and I have spoken to him a few times.
I was at the villa game and I have a copy of his book. Not much of a read tbh and I am quite happy to pass it on to the OP.

[Bobby Dandruff]

Re: Anyone remember Bobby Brown?

He only played for us over a couple of seasons (1966-67 and 1967-68) but suffered a serious knee injury against Aston Villa and eventually retired. He was an England amateur international and scored 2 goals against Brazil when representing Great Britain at the 1960 Rome Olympics. He eventually scored 4 goals over the 3 games, including 1 against Italy. He was offered the chance to join AC Milan but chose to tour Australasia with the FA XI. When he returned the AC Milan manager had left the club due to ill-health, so the move to Italy never happened.

Sorry, I'm rambling a bit. He's 85 now and a few years ago published his autobiography, All he can do is score goals - The life and times of Bobby Brown, with a limited print run.

Just wondering if anyone has come across the book. I'd love to be able to buy a copy, but haven't been able to track one down...

I have a strange memory of him and looking at the dates on his Wikipedia page it must have been from 1974/1975, when I was 10/11 year old:

I remember going to some sort of football training camp at what was Cyncoed Institute on Cyncoed Road (now Cardiff Met I think) and he was running the session. I’d never heard of him at my age but I remember his name, as I asked my Dad who he was. For some reason we were taking penalties and I remember him (and a friend of mine who was there with me STILL goes on about it!) really objecting quite vehemently when I suggested that professionals shouldn’t really miss penalties, in a manner that was quite unpleasant. And I was 10/11 years old - even now it seemed like a complete over reaction on his part and one that my mate still laughs about. Just weird.

Maybe he was still bitter at his career ending prematurely but taking it out on kids was just pathetic.

[Moodybluebird]

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Wasn’t at the Villa Boxing Day game, so my main memory of Bobby Brown was the great goal he scored against Palace in an early season night game we won 4-2. I remember him as being a step up in ability from the likes of Terry Harkin and George Andrews - we probably would never have signed Brian Clark if Brown had not suffered his injury.

I was at both those games Bob and they were superb. The Villa game we won 3-0 and it was played in very icy conditions. I can still remember pictures in the Echo of Bobby Brown lying on the pitch with what looked like a huge wad of bubble wrap around his knee after he had sustained that career-ending injury.

[alan_corneli]

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Bobby lives a few miles up the road from me here in Pembs. He was licensee of the Rising Sun, just outside Haverfordwest, for years and I have spoken to him a few times.
I was at the villa game and I have a copy of his book. Not much of a read tbh and I am quite happy to pass it on to the OP.

Thank you for your kind offer but I managed to pick one up on eBay earlier.

Cheers.

[Former Labour leader]

Re: Anyone remember Bobby Brown?

Thank you for your kind offer but I managed to pick one up on eBay earlier.

Cheers.

No probs.