Chris Brass

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Chris Brass
Personal information
Full name	Chris Brass
Date of birth	July 24, 1975
Place of birth	Easington, England
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Bury
Number	15
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-2001 1994 2000 2001-2006 2005-2006 2006-	Burnley → Torquay United (loan) → Halifax Town (loan) York City → Southport (loan) Bury	134 (1) 007 (0) 006 (0) 152 (6) 005 (0) 029 (0)
Teams managed
2003-2004	York City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:24, 2 April 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Christopher Paul Brass (born July 24, 1975 in Easington) is an English professional footballer and manager. He currently plays in defence for Bury.

Chris Brass began his career as a schoolboy at Ipswich Town, starring for the Durham County youth side. However, he was released by Town at the age of 15 when new manager John Lyall took over at Portman Road. He went for trials at a number of clubs (including Sheffield United and Middlesbrough) before becoming an apprentice at Burnley in 1991, turning professional July 8, 1993. In 1994 he captained the Burnley A team as it won the Lancashire League. In need of first-team experience, Brass joined Torquay United on loan in October 1994, playing seven league games in a two month loan spell.

Brass returned to Burnley, making his debut for them as a substitute in a 1-0 defeat away to Portsmouth in January 1995. The following season he again struggled to claim a regular place in the Burnley side, but in 1996-97 he established himself in the centre of the Burnley defence, and remained there for the next 3 seasons, though occasionally played out of position by manager Chris Waddle. By March 1998, such was the turmoil that the Clarets found themselves in, Brass was their longest serving player, and still only 22 years old. In the summer of 1998, Stan Ternent replaced Waddle, and made Brass captain, but Brass struggled to keep his form and found himself in the reserves. In the summer of 1999, Burnley signed Mitchell Thomas resulting in Brass playing only occasionally for the first-team. He went on loan to Halifax Town in September 2000, with the first of his six league games being a win against Torquay. After the month's loan was up, Halifax could not afford to sign him and he returned to the Burnley reserves, before joining York City in March 2001. He had played 134 league games for the Clarets, scoring just once.

Brass was immediately installed as captain at York and in May 2003, aged only 27, was appointed as York's player-manager. Although his first season in charge began well, York failed to win any of their final 20 league games and were relegated to the Conference. Results weren't much better in the Conference and Brass was sacked as manager in November 2004. He remained at York as a player and, after suffering a serious ligament injury, joined Harrogate Town on loan in September 2005 in an attempt to regain match-fitness. He joined Southport on loan in November 2005, returning to York in January 2006. The following day he was released from his contract at York in January 2006 and a week later joined Bury as a player.

He scored one of the most comical (and probably painful) own goals in history in the 2005-06 season, when attempting an overhead clearance in the game against Darlington, the ball hit his nose and went in. Brass received a broken nose in addition.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
York City		June 4, 2003	November 8, 2004	67	14	35	18	20.89

[edit] External links

• Chris Brass career stats at Soccerbase
• Chris Brass management career stats at Soccerbase

Sporting positions
Preceded by Terry Dolan	York City F.C. manager 2003-2004	Succeeded by Viv Busby

Bury F.C. - Current Squad
1 Fettis | 2 Scott | 3 Kennedy | 4 Fitzgerald | 5 Challinor | 6 Woodthorpe | 9 Tipton | 10 Youngs | 11 Barry-Murphy | 12 Bishop | 14 Baker | 15 Brass | 16 Adams | 17 Buchanan | 18 Pugh | 19 Goodfellow | 20 Warrington | 23 Parrish | 24 Speight | 25 Mocquet | 26 Quigley | 27 Rouse | 28 Hurst | 30 Grundy | 31 Smith | Manager: Casper

York City F.C. - Managers

Collier (1928-30) | Sherrington (1930-33) | Collier (1933-37) | Mitchell (1937-50) | Duckworth (1950-52) | Spencer (1952-53) | McCormick (1953-54) | Bartram (1956-60) | Lockie (1960-67) | Shaw (1967-68) | Johnston (1968-75) | McGuinness (1975-77) | Wright (1977-80) | Lyons (1980-81) | Randall (1981-82) | Smith (1982-87) | Saxton (1987-88) | Bird (1988-91) | Ward (1991-93) | Little (1993-99) | Thompson (1999-2000) | Dolan (2000-03) | Brass (2003-04) | Busby (2004-05) | McEwan (2005-)