Joseph William Brown (born 3 April 1968 in

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

, England) is an English

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, who plays for

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Career

Brown signed for

Bradford City Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and are currently managed by Mark Hughes. Th ...

as an apprentice in

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. He made his debut for the Bantams in a

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first-round game at

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on 22 November 2005 when he came on as an 82nd-minute substitute. He scored a last-minute winner. In the second round he was again a scoring substitute but Bradford lost 2–1. His league debut came in December in a goalless draw at

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. He scored his one and only league goal for Bradford – again in the 90th minute – after coming on as substitute against

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in March. The following season, he again scored a Football League Trophy goal. Brown was given a three-match suspension after losing his appeal against a red-card in Bradford's 4–1 loss against

and was released by City at the end of the 2006–07 season after making just seven appearances. He went on trial with

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at the end of the 2006–07 season but was deemed "no better than what we have got" by manager Billy McEwan. He later had a trial with

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and trained with several league clubs, but eventually joined

in August 2007.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Joe 1988 births Living people English footballers Men's association football midfielders Bradford City A.F.C. players Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players Footballers from Bradford English Football League players