[7] He quickly established himself in the first-team and attracted the attention of First Division side Sheffield United, joining the Blades on the final day of the transfer window in the 1973–74 season.
[2] He returned to Britain in 1982, spending a brief time at Cardiff City before joining Kettering Town as cover for the injured Steve Conroy.
Several years after officially retiring Brown was named as a substitute on two occasions in his forties, the 1995 Football League Third Division play-off final and the first round of the FA Cup in 1997, at the age of 45.
When Kennedy suffered an ankle injury during a defeat to England and was unable to recover for the following match against Romania at Stadionul Național in Bucharest during qualifying for UEFA Euro 1976,[6] handing Brown his first cap.
[12] He later testified in front of a Football League panel against the then chairman and the records were eventually used to help convict Darren Brown of fraud in 2005, being sentenced to four years in prison.