Scott Brown

Lost to a late Burnley goal. Unlucky but great run and the lack of ET with 10 men will help them be fresher for the weekend, top half finish would be great for them.

 

Great to see the man doing well but let’s be honest he was always going to. A natural leader, he’ll be good in everything he does. Would like to see him get a championship club next. He shouldn’t be staying at fleetwood for too long

 

That should be a fantastic night

 

Scott Brown had already gained plenty of experience in the top flight of Scottish football with Hibernian by the time he joined Celtic in 2007.

He made his debut at the start of the 2007/08 in a 0-0 draw at home to Kilmarnock, the first of 620 appearances he would make for the club.

Over the next few years, he played under several managers – Gordon Strachan, Tony Mowbray, who made him captain in 2010, Neil Lennon in his two spells as Celtic manager, and Brendan Rodgers.

He joined Celtic’s exclusive 600 club on December 6, 2020 in a 1-1 draw at home to St Johnstone, while his last game for the Hoops came at the end of that season in a league game against Hibs at Easter Road.

During those 14 illustrious years, he amassed 22 trophies – 10 league titles, six Scottish Cups and six League Cups – with four consecutive domestic trebles within that.

And, of course, he gave us ‘The Broony’, the iconic goal celebration that followed his stunning strike in a Scottish Cup tie against Rangers at Ibrox in February 2011.

Announcing his decision to leave Celtic in March 2021, Scott Broan said: ‘It was a privilege to sign for this great club all those years ago and it has been an absolute honour to play for and captain Celtic for so many years.

‘I have always given my best to the club and always wanted the best for our fans. We have enjoyed some fantastic moments and success together, dominating the game in Scotland so regularly and enjoying some great European nights… Celtic will never leave me and the club will forever be in my heart.’

PRELUDE TO PARADISE
Scott Brown was a product of Hibernian’s Youth Academy, and made his first-team debut at the age of 17 in a league game against Aberdeen in May 2003. Over the next four years, he played 134 times for the club, scoring 20 goals, and he helped the Edinburgh side lift the League Cup in the 2006/07 season, the first of many winner’s medals he would amass in green and white, though the rest of them came in the Hoops of Celtic. Having announced his decision to join Celtic before the end of that season, Brown’s last game for Hibernian was on the final day of the season, and it was a home game against Celtic. Both sets of supporters chanted his name, and he scored in the 2-1 win for Hibs.

DEBUT BHOY
Having swapped the green and white of Hibernian for the more illustrious Hoops, Scott Brown made his Celtic debut on the opening day of the 2007/08 season, playing in a 0-0 draw at home to Kilmarnock on a day when the league flag was raised at Paradise in recognition of the team’s achievement in winning the title the previous season. And in that first season, he played 48 times across all competitions and scored three goals to help the Hoops win their third league title in a row, one that was won on an emotional night at Tannadice just days after the death of Celtic legend and first-team coach, Tommy Burns.

HIGHLIGHTS
Scott Brown won 22 trophies during his 14 years at Celtic, most of them as captain of the club. He was part of the historic Quadruple Treble run that cemented Celtic’s dominance of Scottish football, and he was an integral part of the many successes the Hoops enjoyed throughout his time at Paradise. He also scored 46 goals, including some vital strikes in vital games, sparking his iconic ‘Broony’ celebration, of which more below. With a total of 620 appearances for the club, Scott Brown takes his rightful place as a Celtic legend, and to use the words of another legend, the late, great Tommy Burns, perhaps Scott Brown’s greatest achievement was in staying at Celtic for so long because ‘bad players don’t stay at Celtic for 14 years.’






LOW POINTS
There were highs and lows for Scott Brown as a Celtic player over his 14 years at the club, in particular the seasons when the Hoops did not win the league. Most notably that disappointment would have been most keenly felt in his last season when the Hoops were not able to make it 10 titles in a row. However, off the field, Scott Brown’s lowest point came during his first season at Celtic when his sister, Fiona, lost her battle with cancer. Speaking recently about that heartbreaking time for him and his family, Scott said: ‘My form went up and down and that was understandable. The club was exceptional. Peter Lawwell was brilliant, and there’s not a lot of people that would get phone calls from the CEO just to ask how you and your family is doing.’

BOWING OUT
Celtic’s final game of a very disappointing 2020/21 season was on May 15, 2021, when the Hoops travelled through to Edinburgh to take on Hibernian at Easter Road. Just as Scott Brown’s last game for Hibs was in this fixture, so too was his final game for Celtic. But he wasn’t able to mark his 620th appearance with a goal or a win. Instead, the match finished goal-less in what was probably an appropriately flat result for a season when the team had targeted their 10th title in a row. On a personal level, it was disappointing that there were no supporters in the stadium to bid him farewell due to COVID restrictions at the time. From Celtic, he moved to Aberdeen before finally hanging up his boots in March last year.

LET’S ALL DO THE BROONY!
There are few Celtic players who have produced iconic goal celebrations, and even fewer who have their celebration named after them. The Broony originated on February 6, 2011 during a Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox. The home side had taken an early lead which was soon cancelled out by Kris Commons, but the Hoops suffered a blow just before half-time when Fraser Forster was sent off, with Rangers scoring from the subsequent penalty to lead 2-1. However, a battling second-half performance saw Celtic draw level on 65 minutes thanks to a wonderful left-foot shot from Scott Brown on the edge of the area. As the ball hit the net, Brown stood still, face impassive and arms outstretched in front of Rangers player, El Hadji Diouf… the Broony was born!

FLEETWOOD BROWN
Scott Brown had long harboured ambitions to get into coaching and management after he ended his playing career and, indeed, had been working with Celtic’s reserve set-up prior to Brendan Rodgers’ arrival at the club in 2016. He put that to one side for the next few seasons, instead concentrating on helping the Hoops to win four Trebles in a row, but when he moved to Aberdeen, it was as a player-coach, a role he continued until he left the club following Jim Goodwin’s arrival as manager. At the end of the 2021/22 season, he officially retired as a player, and took up his first managerial role, in charge of English League One side, Fleetwood Town. And already this season, his Fleetwood side have amassed more points with 12 games remaining that they did in the whole of the previous season, while he also reached the last 16 of the FA Cup - the furthest the club has ever gone in the competition.

APPEARANCES
League: 407
Scottish Cup: 53
League Cup: 33
Europe: 127
Total: 620

GOALS
League: 29
Scottish Cup: 11
League Cup: 4
Europe: 2
Total: 46

HONOURS
League: 10
Scottish Cup: 6
League Cup: 6
Total: 22

 

Celtic hero Scott Brown has detailed how he was feeling during his return to Parkhead as an Aberdeen player last season.

Brown had a spell at the Dons before retiring last year and came up against the Hoops twice during that time.

In the match at Parkhead, he pulled up in the second-half and had to leave the field due to an injury.

This turned out to be his last match in front of the Hoops faithful and the former Scotland international has opened up on his emotions that day.

He said: "I pulled up because I was old and fragile. I just saw Jonny Hayes score an own goal.

"It meant a lot but it would have been disrespectful for me to walk all the way around the park and applaud the fans.

"Especially when we had a travelling support down. Ange offered me the chance to go out and go and applaud the fans as well.

"But once you’re at another club you can’t really go back in an Aberdeen jersey and go to applaud the fans.

"This upcoming event is the perfect time and the perfect opportunity for myself and Lustig to go and do this.

"Hopefully, it’ll be a great event – there’ll be a few stories, a few entertaining faces coming on as well. I’m just delighted to see Lustig as well."

 

No better person': Scott Brown on heir to his No 8 and best yellow card of his life against Rangers
Celtic have moved on spectacularly since Scott Brown cut his ties with the club following 14 glittering years, a parting not even two years ago.



So has the former captain, now cutting his teeth in the management game with English League One side Fleetwood Town. Yet the unsentimental Brown will allow himself to wallow in his life and times at Parkhead when, along with friend and former team-mate Mikael Lustig, the pair are the subjects of a special evening at the SECC on May 18. An event that will be for the benefit of the Celtic Charity Foundation and allow the duo closure over offering their thanks to a support the 37-year-old says stuck by them “through thick and thin”. With the covid pandemic preventing them expressing their gratitude in front of the fans as they headed for pastures new, Brown is chuffed at the chance to now do that “instead of sending out messages on Instagram or Twitter”.

The Ange Postecoglou revolution – “he has them playing some great football,” said Brown – has ushered in a very different Celtic team from the, at times, in-your-face sides within which he and Lustig proved central characters. The former Scottish international was a waspish, wind-up merchant by trade, treating the pitch as a battlefield in which opponents were sworn enemies to be belittled, bested and beaten. It amuses him, then, that the man who has inherited his No 8 shirt, a certain Kyogo Furuhashi, could hardly be more antithetical in his approach. The Japanese scoring phenomenon remains mannerly and gracious whatever the white-hot nature of the fray, even as he mauls rivals with his perpetual movement and penalty-box prowess.




You can see wee Kyogo has a smile on his face everywhere he goes,” said Brown. “He helps people up after he tackles them. He’s picking up litter after games and stuff like that. He’s just a lovely, lovely lad. To be perfectly honest, there is no better person that could steal my number from me. It goes from one way to another. I wouldn’t have helped anyone up … but he’s willing to help anybody up, which shows you there is no right way and no wrong way to play football and win games.”

Brown doesn’t deny that he wishes he was still winning games with his warrior ways, as opposed to the coaching nous now required. Asked if he missed the derby dust-ups as another has just been added to this campaign through Scotland’s two tribes meeting in the Scottish Cup semi-final next month, he said: ‘I miss playing football. I loved every single moment at Hibs, Celtic and Aberdeen. I really enjoyed playing football, keeping fit, working hard and I enjoyed going onto the park looking to win. And hopefully I wanted to win more than the guy I was competing against.”

Brown often wanted to rub opponents’ noses in it whenever he was making his presence count. His least Furuhashi-like moment came when he celebrated right in front of El Hadji Diouff after netting the equaliser in a 2-2 Scottish Cup draw against Rangers at Ibrox in 2011. His outstretched arms goading of the intemperate Senegalese striker not only helped cement the Celtic support’s affection for him. The eponymous gesture became known as ‘the Broony’. “It couldn’t have worked out any better, him standing there. To this day it’s the best yellow card I’ve had in my life…” said a man now a mature and measured manager. “I see Celtic fans in the street when I get back home. They are always lovely, they always want to speak about when I played and what the team’s like now.”

 

* * Broony. Do you ever concentrate on the job your doing just now??

If you were an actual Fleetwood supporter you'd be raging that he just wont shut up about his old club and his old pals and players that play with us.

If you were a Celtic manager and wouldnt shut up about your previous club, talking about it in every interview, then the fans would want you out like

 

You do know it is a promotional interview in preparation for a Celtic-themed, send off show for Broony since we weren't able to give him a proper goodbye when he left?

I'm sure the Fleetwood supporters are intelligent enough to understand and won't care.

 

Aye but its no just that. It was only a few weeks ago he was raving about how could CalMac was and saying he'd love to have CalMac and Forrest down playing with his team. He's just always talking about Celtic. Im no complaining. I talk about Celtic all the time. Its just it seems like he does it a bit too much while being the manager of another club.

 

Fleetwood beat Derby 0-2 away.

 

Scott Brown has revealed Ange Postecoglou urged him to do a lap of honour with the Celtic fans when returning with Aberdeen.

But the Hoops legend says that wouldn't have sat right with him when he was representing another club. The ex-midfielder and captain left Parkhead in the twilight of his career to take up a player-coach role under former Hibs teammate Stephen Glass at Pittodrie in 2021.


That of course meant he would come up against the club where he wrote his name into folklore by lifting trophy after trophy. They were now managed by Postecoglou and playing the 'Ange-ball' that has them dominating Scottish football after a very brief adjustment period.




37-year-old has told how the Aussie was keen for him to take the applause of the support which still adored him but he had to turn it down.

Brown also discussed how he'd have enjoyed playing under Postecoglou's style - just maybe not at that age.

He said: “If I could steal a couple of his players I’d rather have that if possible! He was fantastic with me when I came back to Celtic Park with Aberdeen. He said to walk around the stadium and go and take the applause that you are due.




That’s not for me doing that with another strip on. But even small details like that and other managers I’ve spoken to speak really highly of him as well


Would I have enjoyed playing for Ange? I think I would have. I’m not so sure I would enjoy playing for him at 37! I’d be struggling to keep up with the lads, that’s for sure.”

Brown has also opened up on his first foray into management.




He insists he's not a ranter and raver like some would expect and says he's enjoying learning on the job.

The former Scotland captain added: “I’m more chilled out than most people would think. It’s more about the team.




It’s not about me losing the plot here and there and showing I can shout. Everyone knows you can shout. It’s about understanding the tactics, the changes of shape and the personnel.

“When I played I didn’t need to worry about sorting out formations or shapes. I could have a go at the referee and it was probably better that the captain had a go than the manager. For me now it’s better that an assistant or the goalie coach has a say so I can get back into the changing room and make sure I am organised.

“Half time is huge for us, whether changing shape or personnel or having to go with the flow when you’ve had a man sent off after 42 minutes against one of the best teams we have players this season (Burnley in the FA Cup) and they are all possession-based and are probably going to go up to the Premier League



For us to hold out for 89 minutes was exceptional. I’m not too sure if the lads had any more fight and willingness and desire to go for another half hour.




You still get that buzz as a manager because you’ve set up the lads and the way they have worked. Whether it’s rotation or a change of shape or a change of personnel, if it comes off you know you’ve made the right choice and you get a buzz because you’ve made the right decision at the right time.

“I’ve made a couple of wrong decisions too but I’m young, I’m learning and there’s no better place for me to learn.”

 

Cracking interview.

I wonder what his next step will be, with Fleetwood and their budget they can't be expected to reach the playoffs, midtable is their ceiling really so it'll likely be how he has the team playing that will catch the attention of bigger clubs.

Can't wait to go to the Broony n Mika night later this month

 

Looks as though they're struggling to sell out the night night him and lusto

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