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ALBERT FOAN
Born: 30 October 1923, Rotherhithe, London, England
Signed: Norwich City
Date: 28 June 1950
Fee: £3,000
Debut: Hull City (H) 19 August 1950
Last game: Grimsby Town (H) 27 October 1956
Appearances: 64
Goals: 9
Individual honours: Essex Professional Cup (1955)
Died: 14 August 2009 (aged 85)
A Londoner who escaped the attention of the Capital's clubs until Hammers signed him from Norwich City on 28 June 1950 for a £3,000 fee. As a schoolboy Albert represented his District, and gained further honours when he was chosen for London Boys v. Manchester Boys. From thence he graduated into junior soccer, and was well on the up-grade when the war years brought his progress to a halt. However, he later attracted the notice of the Canaries and made a number of First Team appearances for them in 1948-49 and 1949-50.
Albert Thomas Foan made his debut for West Ham along with Eric Betts in the opening fixture of the 1950-51 season against Hull City in a 3-3 draw on the 19 August at the Boleyn Ground. Equally at home on the wing or at inside-forward, his early honours were with London Boys. His finest hour at Upton Park came during the great Cup run of 1955-56, when he scored a hat-trick against Preston North End. The significance of that event can be gauged by glancing at his total League goals. On the 5 February 1957 West Ham agreed to the transfer without fee of Albert to Kent League side Margate who is managed by former Hammer Almer Hall.
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ERIC BETTS
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Betts gained schoolboy representative honours for his county side. He graduated to Nuneaton Borough FC, and then made his way to Walsall in Division III(South), where he attracted the ‘scouts’ of several clubs including West Ham United and was duly signed on 15 April 1950. The outside-left, made his first appearance in a West Ham shirt in the 5-0 win over Watford Reserves at Upton Park on the 22 April 1950, in which he scored a goal. Making his Hammers League debut against Hull City at the Boleyn in a 3-3 draw in the 19 August 1950, in the first of a trio of Second Division appearances for the club.
A year after signing he was allowed to rejoin his first club Nuneaton Borough on 1 August 1951, however, he never official registered with the club, he then had trials with Brighton & Hove Albion (August), Bradford Park Avenue (September) before he finally transferred to Rochdale on 10 October 1951. Stan continued his travels with Crewe Alexandra, Wrexham and Oldham Athletic where he ended his League career in 1956.
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STAN JOHNS
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Francis Stanley Johns started his football journey first with Prescot Cables and then Bangor City before joining Cheshire League side South Liverpool in 1947. Johns characteristic dash down the middle, and ball control, brought many goals and after spending three seasons at Holly Park.
Johns was signed from under the noses of Liverpool and Everton after the Cheshire League side made an unsuccessful bid to join the Football League. His two-week trial period at the Boleyn Ground started with the season’s ‘First Practice Match’ on 10 August 1950.
As a result of a successful showing in that match and then scoring a hat-trick two days later in the second ‘Practice’ fixture he signed professional forms for the Second Division Hammers on 17 August for a £500 fee. Scored for the Combination side in the opening fixture against Charlton Athletic although he ended up on the losing side that day by 4-1.
Made his First Teams debut against Cardiff City in the 1-2 defeat at Ninian Park on the 4 September 1950 in which he scored West Ham's consolation goal. Although his career in east London got off to the best possible start, it was short and sweet as the striker made just half-a-dozen Second Division appearances and one cup game. In August 1951 Stan was invited for a month’s trial with Cardiff City which went well as he signed for the Ninian Park club.
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Bill William Edward Nelson was truely a “local boy” playing most of his junior soccer in and around West Ham. At school he was a member of the West Ham Boys team, and together with many of his team-mates he latter joined the St Andrew’s Youth Club. Whilst on National Service he was in the R.A.F. Northern Ireland Representative XI, and in his leave periods he played in the Hammers “B” team.
Nelson made his initial First Team debut along with Tommy Southren, Victor Niblett and Frank O'Farrell in the 2-1 victory over Colchester United at Upton Park in the Essex Professional Cup 28 September 1950. Five days days later he signed professional forms for West Ham United on 3 October 1950.
Although he made only two Second Division appearances for Hammers, the first in which he was a member of the team which recorded a rare 2-1 victory against Liverpool in their Anfield fortress on the 4 September 1954, and the other a 1-1 draw, two days later at Upton Park against Hull City. Transferred to London rivals Queens Park Rangers on 1 July 1955 for an initially agreed fee of £700, reduced to £600. Nelson later moved to Southern League outfit Guildford City. Bill the was elder brother to Andy Nelson who joined the Hammers in December 1953.
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VIC NIBLETT
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Niblett did very well in schoolboy soccer, and on two occasions was selected as Reserve for England Boys (versus Wales and Scotland). On leaving school he made the grade in junior football, and has an A.T.C. International cap.
Vic arrived at the Boleyn Ground on 23 June 1950 from Reading as part of a player exchange deal which saw Ken Bainbridge going the other way. Vic quickly settled down, holding a regular place as Reserve team centre-half interspersed with making his Hammers debut along with Tommy Southren, Frank O'Farrell and Bill Nelson in the Essex Professional Cup against Colchester United in a 2-1 victory at Upton Park on the 28 September 1950.
Never managed a League game for the Hammers and was subsequently transferred to Gillingham in August 1951. Vic retired from playing football after receiving an injury towards the end of the 1955-56 season, he made 154 League appearances for the Medway club. He stayed on at the Preistfield Stadium as groundsman and assisted with travelling with their Reserve team in an official capacity.
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FRANK O'FARRELL
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Frank O'Farrell's first experience of senior football came with his local side Cork United in the League of Ireland. Frank had been born in the city and graduated to the upper grade through schoolboy and junior soccer. O’Farrell replaced Tommy Moroney in the Cork side when Moroney joined West ham United in 1947.
O’Farrell made the same journey across the Irish Sea when he signed for the Hammers on 9 January 1948. It took Frank nearly three seasons before he became a First Team regular, making his initial Hammers debut along with Tommy Southren, Vic Niblett and Bill Nelson versus Colchester United at Upton Park in a 2-1 victory in the Essex Professional Cup on the 28 September 1950.
His Football League bow came against Notts County in the 1-4 defeat at Meadow Lane on the 25 November 1950. On the 1 November 1952 he took over the captaincy for the first time in the game against Brentford.
The consistency of his performances brought him International recognition on 7 May 1952 against Austria at the Praterstadion in Vienna, winning seven international caps with the Hammers.
Transferred to Preston North End in a straight exchange deal for Eddie Lewis in 1956 where he won two more caps. He recorded 118 First Division appearances at Deepdale. After hanging up his boots, he went into football management, starting first with Southern League side Weymouth before going on to serve Torquay United, Leicester City, Manchester United and Cardiff City. In 1980, he joined United Arab Emirati club Al-Shaab, and later returned to Torquay as general manager until his retirement in 1983.
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TOMMY SOUTHREN
Born: 1 August 1927, Southwick, Sunderland
Signed: Peartree Old Boys
Date: 15 December 1949
First: Colchester United (H) 28 September 1950
Last: Luton Town (H) 25 December 1953
Appearances: 68
Goals: 3
Transferred: Aston Villa
Date: 24 December 1954
Died: 10 May 2004 (aged 76)
Tommy Southren is a Northerner by birth but a Southerner ‘by adoption.’ Tommy moved at the age of twelve from his birthplace of Southwick near Sunderland to Welwyn Garden City. The restrictions of wartime meant that although he played for Handside School in the local schools’ league he had no opportunity of gaining representative honours, and it was not until after he left school that he became better known in the soccer world. It was in the early weeks of the 1949-50 season that Tommy pinged up of the West Ham scouting radar whilst playing in Hertfordshire junior soccer with the quaintly named Peartree Old Boys, he was invited for a trial in the Hammers “A” team against Tottenham Hotspur in the Eastern Counties League.
Although losing 7-2 that afternoon he became a regular in the side and was given an opportunity as outside-right for the Reserves against Ipswich Town Reserves in a Combination fixture at Upton Park on 26 November 1949. Tommy played a big part in a 5-2 success that day and signed professional forms on 15 December 1949 and ended the season with a total of 23 Reserve appearances.
A replacement for flu-victim Eric Parsons gave Southren the opportunity to make his initial first team debut in the Essex Pro Cup, running out 2-1 winners at Upton Park against Colchester United on the 28 September 1950, his Football League debut followed two days later in a 3-5 home defeat at the hands of Sheffield United. He was a member of the Hammers Reserve team which won a unique Combination Cup and League "double" in 1953-54 season; he also represented the London F.A. in Berlin on 18 November 1953. In those days if you completed 5-years with a club you were due a benefit payment. He received £600 in December 1954 and less than two-weeks later and after playing 64 league and four cup appearances for the Hammers, Southren signed for Aston Villa for £14,500 in the unglamorous surroundings of Euston Station just before midnight on Christmas Eve 1954 and had four years at Villa Park before moving on to Bournemouth.
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HARRY KINSELL
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Thomas Henry “Harry” Kinsell soon made his mark in schoolboy soccer playing for his local Association team and then gained a Birmingham County XI cap. He later participated in an England v. The Rest trial, and at the age of 17 was a Junior International. This brought him to the notice of West Bromwich Albion and he became a professional with the Throstles.
The outbreak of the war led to his appearance with a number of clubs in his movements around the country and he ‘guested’ with Grimsby Town, Middlesbrough and Blackpool during these years. In 1945 he was capped for England v. Switzerland and further “Victory” International caps against Ireland and Wales followed in 1946.
After the war, Harry returned to West Brom before transferring Bolton Wanderers and then to Reading. His signing from the Elm Park club on 1 January 1951 for £5,250 was another shrewd venture into the transfer market by manager Ted Fenton, who had been a colleague of Kinsell in the England Team. Harry made his West Ham debut in the 2-3 defeat at the hands of Blackburn Rovers at Upton Park on the 13 January 1951. He gave Hammers five seasons yeoman service, often captaining the side, before being given a free transfer to Southern League Bedford Town.
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HARRY HOOPER
Born: 14 June 1933, Pittington, Co Durham
Signed: Hylton Colliery Juniors
Date: 25 November 1950
Debut: Barnsley (H) 3 February 1951
Last game: Bury (H) 19 March 1956
Appearances: 136
Goals: 47
Transferred: Wolverhampton Wanderers
Date: 22 March 1956
Fee: £25,000
Died: 26 August 2020, Hunstanton, Norfolk (aged 87)
Harry Hooper started his football journey with local Pittington School playing for an entire season between the posts. It was not until he moved to Neville’s Cross High School that he switched to his more famous wing position.
Although born in County Durham on 14 June 1933, he lived with his parents in Sheffield until the outbreak of the Second World War. His father, Harry senior, played right-back for Sheffield United, and went on to captain the Black Cats in the 1936 FA Cup final against Arsenal at Wembley. In 1947 he signed for Hartlepools United, making 66 league appearances before taking up an assistant trainer post with The Pool at the end of the 1949-50 season.
Hooper junior took his first big step in football life when he joined Hylton Colliery Juniors, who were one of the best Junior teams at that time. Any player with ambitions of making the grade as a League footballer, knew, that with Hylton, prospecting clubs would be watching on. Impressive performances earned him selection with Durham County youth team, which brought him under the spotlight of many League clubs including Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Burnley and Hull City.
Middlesbrough was the most persistent, but instead the winger chose to sign amateur forms with Sunderland, his pin-up team from his school-days. Alongside training with the Tyneside club they arranged a job as a dental mechanic. Just as well, he never got a chance of a first team place with the Roker Park club and as an amateur he was still eligible to turn out for Durham County.
When Hooper senior left Hartlepools to take up a coaching role with West Ham United in early November 1950, he made arrangements for his son to travel to east London for a trial. The match against Queens Park Rangers in the London Mid-week League was to take place on Thursday 23 November at Upton Park. Before leaving for the Metropolis, Durham officials asked him to refrain from signing a professional contract with the Hammers. Their reason, as an amateur he could still turn out in an important fixture for them against Northumberland at the weekend.
As a young player Hooper was relishing his chance to play among professionals. West Ham’s Norman Corbett at right-half was in the twilight of his career and was instrumental in helping the youngster by giving him plenty of encouragement during the game. The match was more notable for the atrocious weather, for it rained throughout and ended in semi-darkness. The Hammers lost a scrappy encounter by the only goal. Despite the conditions, Hooper put in a good performance and manager Ted Fenton wanted to sign him on the spot. However, he kept faith with his Durham team-mates by delaying his plunge into professionalism until after the game with Northumberland. He was switched to centre-forward and he obliged with a hat-trick in a 4-3 win. The next day he travelled to London to start his career with West Ham.
Three games into his professional career with the “A” team, Eric Parsons, the senior outside-right was transferred to Chelsea, and in turn Tommy Southren was promoted from the second team, which meant a step up for Hooper. Three-months later on 3 February 1951 the 17-year-old got his first team opportunity in the absence of Southren for a Second Division home clash with Barnsley in a 4-2 win.
After 11 League appearances and winning an Essex Professional Cup medal that initial season, his progression over the following two campaigns would be interrupted by National Service, although in March 1952 he did represent the British Army in Brussels against their Belgium counterparts in a 3-0 victory. After a dozen League games in 1952/53 he became a first team regular.
The list of Hooper’s honours with West Ham is indeed an imposing one, England B (5 caps), ), ironically the first of which was against Scotland at his beloved Roker Park where he scored in the 1-1 draw. England Under-23 (3 caps), Inter-League (2 caps), Representative (1 cap), Essex Professional Cup (1951).
In March 1956, the Archdiocese of Westminster, the Hammers landlords wanted to provide an extension to their St Edward’s Primary School by closing the main entrance to the stadium. Faced with the prospect of finding £15,000 to build a new entrance and gates further along Green Street. Chairman Reg Pratt had no option but to sell their star player.
On 22 March 1956, after 136 appearances and scoring 47 goals in claret and blue, Hooper joined Wolverhampton Wanderers for £25,000 of which £8,000 was spent on his replacement from Colchester United, Mike Grice.
Both Tottenham Hotspur and Wolves showed the most interest in signing Hooper. Hooper ruled out Spurs as they were fighting relegation, no player signed after 16 March is not allowed to assist a team involved in relegation, promotion or championship.
At Molineux, he found it difficult to adapt to the managers style of play, having scored 19 goals in 39 Division One games he was allowed to leave for Birmingham City in December 1957 for £20,000. Contributed 34 goals in 105 appearances for the St Andrews’ club over three seasons before returning to his native north-east with Sunderland for £18,000 in September 1960 making 65 appearances and 16 goals. He also went on to play non-league football with Kettering Town, Dunstable Town and Heanor Town before retiring.
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MALCOLM ALLISON
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Allison was born in Dartford, Kent, but did not achieve any notable honours at school, the outbreak of the Second World War put a stop to schoolboy soccer, and it was not until hostilities were nearly over that he started in junior football. Quickly gained a place with Erith and Belvedere F.C. and played in their colours for a full season before being called up for National Service. A spell of service on the Continent included captaining a British Services Combination XI against the Austrian International Team in Vienna and the French Army at Innsbruck.
Charlton Athletic had signed him in April 1944, and when he returned to The Valley he was a full-time professional and proved his worth in outstanding fashion when he came into their League side during the 1949-50 campaign following an injury to Harold Phipps. His displays during that period focussed a great deal of interest on the 23-year-old. After spending seven seasons with the Robins, winning a Combination league championship medal and London Challenge Cup winners; memento in 1950/51. Manager Ted Fenton splashed out £7,000 to bring him to the Boleyn Ground on 22 February 1951. During the summer of 1951 he passed an F.A. Coaching Course.
Allison’s first Claret and Blue appearance came in the Football Combination Cup game against Portsmouth at Fratton Park on 3 March, two days later he was making his senior debut in the Essex Professional Cup at Brisbane Road against Leyton Orient which ended 0-0, and progressed to his Football League debut 12 days later in the 2-0 win against Chesterfield at Upton Park on 17 March 1951.
The arrival of Allison was hugely significant in many ways and represented a watershed in the history of the Hammers. It was a move that would prove to literally end the career of club captain Dick Walker who had been at the Boleyn Ground since 1934. With a new crop of players in the early 1950s, such as Frank O'Farrell, John Bond, Noel Cantwell, Jimmy Andrews, and then a couple of seasons later with Dave Sexton, Malcolm Musgrove and the emergence of Ken Brown led to a new era of more youthful faces making their mark in the first team. It was, however, Allison who became the leader of this group; by way of his ideas and far sightedness; who in later decades, as they moved into football coaching and management, would become the first graduates of what was soon to be known as the West Ham Academy. His Hammers’ career saw him make 265 senior league and cup appearances, scoring eleven goals, between his arrival in 1951 and 1957. It was at the conclusion of the 1957/58 season that the Hammers would return to the First Division after an absence of 26 years.
Unfortunately for Allison he was to miss most of that championship season as he was taken ill after a match at Sheffield United on 16 September 1957. The diagnosis was he had caught TB which resulted in him having one of his lungs removed. Undeterred he battled tremendously hard to return to fitness, making steady progress in the reserves until in the following September in the sixth fixture of the new season he had an opportunity to return to first-team action. For his entire playing career he had desired to play in the First Division of the Football League, but it would be an ambition he would never achieve.
Allison shunned medical advice to continue his playing career with Romford in the Southern League. Soccer coach at Cambridge University before taking his first steps up the managerial ladder with Bath City. From there he moved further west to Plymouth Argyle, followed by a successful period with Joe Mercer at Manchester City, where the pair won all the game's major honours. After those days his career had some diverse points of call, numbering among them Crystal Palace, City again, F.C. Sporting Lisbon (whom he steered to Championship success). Middlesbrough and non-League Durham side Willington F.C. Big Mal was in Kuwait - coaching the national side until March 1986, also had a short spell with Fisher Athletic, and in December 1992 was invited to take over the manager’s job at Bristol City after a short spell as caretaker coach.
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JOHN BOND
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ROY STROUND
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TOMMY DIXON
Born: 8 June 1929, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Signed: Newcastle United
Date: 20 July 1951
First: Colchester United (A) 13 November 1952
Last: Derby County (H) 25 December 1954
Appearances: 44
Goals: 25
Transferred: Reading
Date; 5 March 1955
Fee: £2,700
Died: 6 February 2014 (aged 84)
Tommy Dixon was a later starter to the beautiful game and gained his initial soccer honours whilst on National Service serving with the Royal Air Force in Singapore. After returning to these shores he joined home town Wallsend Boys Club. In those days the north Tyneside club were well known for producing professional footballers, and signed amateur forms with Newcastle United at the beginning of the 1950/51 season.
After making reserve team games for the Magpies in the Central League, the 22-year-old was invited to east London and joined West Ham United on 20 July 1951. The centre-forward found the back of the net in his first competitive appearance for the Football Combination side against Ipswich Town, a 3-1 win at Upton Park on 18 August 1951.
After sustaining a fractured wrist that hindered his progress in his first season, the following campaign saw him regularly led the line for the Eastern Counties League side. For the trip to Layer Road on 13 November 1952 in the first round of the Essex Professional Cup against Colchester United manager Ted Fenton made a number of changes to the starting eleven by bringing in Dixon, Noel Cantwell and Harry Gunning to make their first team debuts in the 3-2 victory.
His Football League debut came five-months later on 4 April 1953 in a 4-1 Division Two defeat at Vetch Field against Swansea Town (now Swansea City). Recorded his first goals in a Claret and Blue shirt two days later, when he netted twice in a 3-2 win over Fulham at Craven Cottage and ended the season with four goals in seven appearances.
In the revenge match against Swansea the following season, Dixon scored a hat-trick, and ended the campaign as the Club’s leading scorer with 19 goals, ahead of Dave Sexton (14) and John Dick (13). Despite his prolific form, he featured just four times in 1954/55 as both Dick and Sexton were preferred in the forward positions. As that campaign was drawing to a close, a hat-trick against Birmingham City Reserves and another couple against Millwall prompted Third Division (South) Reading to part with £2,700 for his signature on 5 March 1955.
At Elm Park he regularly found the net and topped the Biscuitmen’s goal charts for two consecutive seasons. His success in Berkshire with 64 goals in 123 league appearances over four seasons drew the attention of Brighton & Hove Albion. Signed for the Goldstone Ground side on 11 October 1958 for £3,000 where he teamed up with former Hammer Dave Sexton and went on to make 35 appearances, scoring 12 goals. Joined Cumbrian side Workington 1960/61, 53 games, 17 goals and finally Barrow in his native North-East for 1962/63, 62 appearances and 23 goals.
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HARRY GUNNING
Born: 8 February 1932, Leigh, Lancashire
Signed: Gravesend & Northfleet
Date: 2 June 1952
Debut: 13 November 1952, Colchester United (A)
Last game: 1 May 1953, Lincoln City (A)
Appearances: 2
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Transferred: Crystal Palace
Date: June 1954
Fee: £200
Died: 7 July 2005 (aged 73)
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KEN BROWN
Born: 16 February 1934, Forest Gate, London, England
Signed: Neville United
Date: 16 October 1951
Debut: 21 February 1953, Rotherham United (A)
Last game: 8 February 1967, West Bromwich Albion (A)
Appearances: 474
Goals: 4
International: England (1 cap), Representative (1 cap)
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Football League Second Division Champions (1958),
Hammer of the Year (1959),
Essex Professional Cup (1959),
FA Cup Winner (1964),
European Cup Winners Cup (1965),
Charity Shield (1965),
Football League Cup Runners-up (1966),
Club’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)
Ken Brown was spotted playing for local Dagenham-based side Neville United. His initial claret and blue appearance for the Hammers came in the away Eastern Counties League fixture against Norwich City ‘A’ on 15 September 1951 losing 4-3.
The Canaries would feature large in Brown’s footballing career. He signed professional forms on 16 October and quickly progressed through the London Mid-week League to making his Football Combination debut on Christmas Day 1951, also against Norwich City, this time he was on the winning side 2-0 at Carrow Road.
Finest of a long tradition of West Ham centre-halves, Brown made his Second Division debut in the 1-1 draw against Rotherham United at Millmoor on the 21 February 1953 whilst still serving in the Army. A stalwart in the heart of the Hammers defence in the 1957-58 promotion campaign. On 18 November 1959 he made his only appearance for England, a 2-1 victory over Northern Ireland at Wembley. Brown has the distinction as the only Hammer to win the 1958 Second Division championship, the FA Cup in 1964 and the following year was back at Wembley as part of the European Cup Winners’ Cup winning side. In May 1967, after receiving a testimonial he joined fellow ex-Hammer John Bond at Torquay United and gained the unusual distinction of drawing wage packets from two clubs when he continued to manage the Pools Promotion at Upton Park.
When John Bond was appointed manager of Bournemouth in 1970, Brown was appointed as his trainer, and in November 1973, Brown followed Bond to Norwich City, becoming assistant manager. In October 1980, Bond left to manage Manchester City and Brown took over the reins at Norwich City and led them to winning the Milk Cup in 1985 - although also relegated to Division II. Ken Brown steered Norwich back to the First Division the following campaign 1985-86. After taking a short break from the game he joined Plymouth Argyle as manager in July 1988, he was controversially sacked as Plymouth manager in February 1990.
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