He has managed East Fife and Cowdenbeath and played in the Scottish Football League for Motherwell and Raith Rovers.
He then became a football coach, working at Berwick Rangers, Falkirk, Hearts, Bradford City and Kilmarnock with longtime colleague Jim Jefferies.
His senior playing career was Cut short at age 28 due to a cruciate ligament injury.
[9] Although East Fife struggled during the 2012–13 season, the club won the Scottish Second Division play-offs to stay in the third tier.
[10] On 5 June 2013, it was reported that Brown had parted ways with East Fife,[11] one month after a widely publicised post-match interview where he angrily criticised the club's fans following a defeat to Stenhousemuir FC.