Former Premier League manager, 65, looking to achieve ‘career highlight' promotion with sixth tier side
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PHIL BROWN famously won promotion with Hull to the Premier League and kept them up for a season.
But today he aims to get Kidderminster back into the National League.
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Phil Brown is aiming to achieve a 'career highlight' with Kidderminster
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Brown famously won promotion with Hull to the Premier League and kept them up for a season
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Kiddy travel to Southport where victory will guarantee them the National North title and automatic promotion — with Brackley only behind on goal difference and Scunthorpe two points back.
Only one side goes up automatically with the next six going into the play-offs.
Brown, 65, took the Tigers up in 2009 and also won promotion to League One with Southend in 2015. He has also managed Derby, Preston and Barrow.
And he told SunSport: 'This will be a career highlight. It really does feel more exciting than getting promoted to the Premier League.
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'I've won two promotions as a manager and me and my assistant Neil McDonald were also part of Sam Allardyce's backroom team at Bolton. But this does feel special.
'I might have been there, seen it and done it — and everyone seems to think if you've had success in the Premier League you should be able to have success in the lower divisions.
"That's a load of rubbish. The bottom line is if your owners aren't allowing you to do things, right then you're going to have a problem.
"You've got to cut your cloth accordingly and myself and Macca have learned a lot about the process of being successful.
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'Macca worked with Sam at Blackburn and West Ham too — and he has assisted me in the past — and having the right backroom team is key.'
Kiddy incredibly pulled in 5,341 fans for Monday's league game with Hereford — beating the 5,327 they attracted for the 2022 FA Cup game against Premier League big-guns West Ham.
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Allardyce, who is from nearby Dudley, put on an 'Evening with Sam Allardyce' in November and attended their game against Burton the next day.
Brown said: 'He came into the changing room on Saturday, gave a team talk and then watched the match. It was brilliant — you have these sorts of people who have parallels with non-league football.
'I used to work with Brian Horton, who managed Manchester City back in the day, and he gave Harriers a glowing endorsement.
"He said, 'Kidderminster are one of the biggest non-league clubs.
"They've been in the EFL before under Jan Molby and if you can get them going there's no reason why you cannot take them back into the Football League.'
Brown famously serenaded Hull fans with The Beach Boys' classic Sloop John B after the club stayed up in the Premier League on the final day of the season in 2010.
The Geordie says he still loves to sing and said: 'I've got my daughter's christening in May and can promise you I'll be up on the microphone most of the night.'
Although he would not share his playlist, Brown highly recommends giving a listen to Front Door Famous by country singer Luke Combs.
He said: 'My motivation in life is always to make my family proud.
"There's a great song called Front Door Famous.
"He makes the point, 'You walk through your front door and it doesn't matter who the f***ing hell you are, your kids run up to you and say, 'daddy' and that is what life should be all about.'
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