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Phil Brown

I feel the time has come to tell the truth. The man you know as Phil Brown was actually born a Smurf.

His father was Wye Aye Smurf, his mother Bonny Lass Smurf. Bonny Lad Smurf was their only child and they loved him dearly.

Sadly, Bonny Lad was a troubled child. He tended to pick on other Smurfs, admonishing them in games of Ring a Ring of Roses. As they all fell down he stood in the middle of them, wagging his his finger, shouting obscenities as if playing to an audience.

At Smurf school he was always in trouble. In one notorious incident he had collected a jarful of bugs which he emptied on the floor. He then proceeded to run a toy bus back and forth, back and forth until each little critter was dead or maimed.

Bonny Lad Smurf knew he was different. He loved football like most of his kind. But rather than dream of being a superstar player, he dreamt of becoming the England team manager.

Then, opportunity knocked. A crash of a supply truck to the local hospital. A huge flagon of growth hormone rolled into the ditch. Bonny Lad saw his chance. It took him hours to roll the bottle all the way to the garden shed, but he did it. He could be a stubborn SOB at times.

So Bonny started knocking back this growth hormone like @Billy Bests boot laces consumes seafood.

Regular visits to the tanning salon followed. Generally, Smurfs aim for a navy blue look, Bonny Lad chose orangey brown spray. After a few sessions, now 5 times his normal height, he looked in the mirror and screamed “I feel brown! I feel brown!” So Phil Brown crossed over to the world of Homo Sapiens.

You know the rest, any missing information can be found on Wikipedia.

But no true Smurf can hide his smurfenticity forever. Several here have noted his choice of headwear, the straggly beard getting ever longer.

I can see how blue Bonny Lad (sorry Phil) is becoming. When Barrow dispense with his services, you will see it too.
 
Phil still talking himself up in the Times today

“I hope I still have a career higher up the Football League. I’m not finished with my ambition. I’ve just done a half-marathon, did that make me feel old? Yes it did. But I’ve still got the desire in management to get back to the top.”
 
Phil still talking himself up in the Times today

“I hope I still have a career higher up the Football League. I’m not finished with my ambition. I’ve just done a half-marathon, did that make me feel old? Yes it did. But I’ve still got the desire in management to get back to the top.”
That quote sounds like something David Brent would say.
 
Phil still talking himself up in the Times today

“I hope I still have a career higher up the Football League. I’m not finished with my ambition. I’ve just done a half-marathon, did that make me feel old? Yes it did. But I’ve still got the desire in management to get back to the top.”
Should try and not get relegated for a change
 
I really hope Barrow escape relegation, not because Phil Brown is there, but because they have escaped the swamp that is the National League and deserve to bask in L2 for a while. We now know how it feels to drop off the bottom and I wouldn't wish that on them again.
 
I really hope Barrow escape relegation, not because Phil Brown is there, but because they have escaped the swamp that is the National League and deserve to bask in L2 for a while. We now know how it feels to drop off the bottom and I wouldn't wish that on them again.
Yes, it would be a shame waiting 6x years to go almost straight back
 
Oldham and Barrow have the hardest run-ins in the league. It isn’t inconceivable that they won’t get another win this season.
 
Phil works his managerial magic for Barrow who smash the league leaders Forest Green 4-0. Oldham's home defeat by the Cobblers leaves Barrow three points clear of the drop with a game in hand.
 

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