Episode 19: Tom Brown

A modest marksman with an eye for the big moments, Tom Brown’s rapid albeit belated rise from junior football in the summer of 1993 marked a new beginning.

Following several ultimately unsuccessful attempts to realise his dream of professional status, it was another ‘TB’, the iconic Tommy Burns, who took a low stakes gamble (£160 per week low) by inviting Tom to train with the club for an extended trial period. Those battling qualities Killie fans came to admire in four successful years with the club secured a contract and a shot at Premier Division football.

And what a start it was.

An injury to Bobby Williamson resulted in the number 9 shirt hanging on Tom Brown’s Rugby Park peg for Kilmarnock’s first game of their long-awaited return to the topflight. One smart, instinctive finish later and he’s in the Sunday Mail team of the week! A fast start to a journey which ended at Hampden Park in May 1997…

 

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