Philip "Phil" Brown was born on 30 May 1959 in South Shields, County Durham, England) is an English former footballer and the current manager of Hull City. As a player, Brown made over six hundred league appearances in an eighteen-year career. As a manager, he became the first to lead Hull City to the top division in their 104-year history, winning the Championship play-offs in 2008.
His first managerial role was as assistant to Sam Allardyce at Blackpool. He returned to Bolton Wanderers after his playing career ended and served as assistant manager to Colin Todd and he took charge of the team as caretaker manager after Todd's departure in 1999, winning four games out of five, until the appointment of Sam Allardyce. He then served as Allardyce's assistant for six years, before deciding to forge his own career as a manager.
In the 2008/2009 Premiership season with HULL CITY, Brown was rewarded with a new three-year contract, which he signed on the weekend of Hull City's first ever top-flight match, a 2–1 victory over Fulham on 16 August 2008.On 28 September Brown managed Hull to a famous 2-1 away victory over Arsenal. It was only Arsenal's second ever defeat at the Emirates Stadium and was described by the Hull press as the greatest victory in the clubs history. After a 1–0 victory at bottom of the table Tottenham Hotspur the following weekend, and an 3–0 away victory at the also newly promoted West Bromwich Albion, he was awarded the Manager-of-the-Month award for Hull's performances in September.
The first nine games Hull spent as a top division club resulted in six wins as they occupied third place in the Premier League and were only being kept off the top by Liverpool and Arsenal having superior goal difference.
Phil Brown was very happy in the last day of the season despite losing to Manchester United FC because Newcastle United FC lost their match which meant that Hull City survived relegation and Phil Brown could be described as having achieving a very lofty feat in the 104-history of HULL CITY FC.
