Kevan Broadhurst (born 3 June 1959) is an English former professional

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and football manager. Broadhurst was born in

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Hudder ...

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. He played 173 games for

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in all competitions and had a three-game loan spell at

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands County, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east ...

before his playing career was cut short due to injury. His managerial career began in 1999 when he was

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of Northampton Town following the departure of Ian Atkins from the club. He became full-time manager of Northampton in 2001 for sixteen months. In 2004 Broadhurst was appointed joint caretaker manager of Bristol Rovers with

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, and when Ian Atkins joined the club as manager Broadhurst remained as his assistant. Broadhurst was given the manager's job at Walsall in 2006, but only held the position for 61 days, winning only one of his eleven games in charge. In 2012, Broadhurst was one of seven former players elected to Birmingham City's Hall of Fame.

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