Andy Brownrigg
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andrew David Brownrigg[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 2 August 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Chapeltown, Sheffield, England | ||
| Positions | |||
| Youth career | |||
| Hereford United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | Hereford United | 8 | (0) |
| 1995–1997 | Norwich City | 0 | (0) |
| 1995–1996 | →Kettering Town (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Rotherham United | 0 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | →Stalybridge Celtic (loan) | 16 | (0) |
| 1998 | Yeovil Town | 0 | (0) |
| 1998 | Stalybridge Celtic | 10 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | Stocksbridge Park Steels | 29 | (4) |
| 1999–2000 | Kidderminster Harriers | 20 | (3) |
| 2000 | Greenock Morton | 2 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Hartlepool United | 0 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Andrew David Brownrigg (born 2 August 1976) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender and midfielder. He made appearances in the English Football League with Hereford United and also played extensively in non-league football.
Career
[edit]Brownrigg began his career with Hereford United, making his debut during the 1994–95 season. In March 1995, after just eight league games, he was transferred to Norwich City for £100,000. He spent part of the following season on loan to Kettering Town and moved to Rotherham United in 1997. He was an unused substitute for Norwich in a Premier League match against Arsenal at Highbury on 1 April 1995.
After being named on the bench for Rotherham’s opening game of the 1997–98 season, his career was disrupted by a violent assault in which he suffered severe facial injuries. Following a spell out, he joined Stalybridge Celtic on loan and was released at the end of the season.
Brownrigg went on to play for a number of clubs including Yeovil Town, Stocksbridge Park Steels, and Kidderminster Harriers, with whom he won the Football Conference title in 1999.[2]
He later played in Scotland with Greenock Morton,[3] before returning to England to appear for clubs including Hartlepool United, Northwich Victoria, Hednesford Town, Gainsborough Trinity, Wakefield & Emley, Maltby Main, Scarborough, Hallam, Buxton, Sheffield, Staveley Miners Welfare, Ossett Albion, Worksop Town and AFC Emley.
Personal life
[edit]In June 2008, Brownrigg entered the Sporting Chance Clinic, a facility established by former England international Tony Adams for athletes facing addiction issues.[4] He has remained in recovery since that time.
Education and research
[edit]Brownrigg graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology from the University of Huddersfield in July 2009. He was subsequently awarded a PhD scholarship focusing on the transition of professional footballers out of the game.
In 2012, his research on career transition was published in the Qualitative Methods in Psychology: Sport and Performance Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, highlighting psychological adjustment issues faced by footballers leaving the professional game.[5]
In 2015, Brownrigg was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by the University of Huddersfield for his thesis titled “‘I shouldn’t have problems because I’m a footballer’: exploring the lived experiences of career transition in UK male professional footballers”, which examined identity loss, psychological adjustment, and the challenges faced by players during and after their careers.[6]
In 2018, he co-authored an article in Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health titled "‘You shut up and go along with it’: an interpretative phenomenological study of former professional footballers’ experiences of addiction", which explored the lived experiences of ex-professional players dealing with issues related to alcohol and gambling addiction.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Hugman, Barry J. (1998). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–1998. Queen Anne Press. p. 81. ISBN 1-85291-585-4.
- ^ "Molby gets feet wet at Harriers". Sports Argus. 26 June 1999. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
- ^ "Boswell takes Morton to court". BBC Sport. 22 November 2000. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
- ^ "Sporting Chance Clinic". Sporting Chance Clinic. Archived from the original on 21 September 2009.
- ^ "Research by Andy Brownrigg" (PDF). British Psychological Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2015.
- ^ Brownrigg, Andrew (2015). ‘I shouldn’t have problems because I’m a footballer’: exploring the lived experiences of career transition in UK male professional footballers (PhD thesis). University of Huddersfield.
- ^ Brownrigg, Andrew; Burr, Vivien; Bridger, Alexander; Locke, Abigail (2018). "'You shut up and go along with it': an interpretative phenomenological study of former professional footballers' experiences of addiction". Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 10 (2): 238–255. doi:10.1080/2159676X.2017.1396557.
External links
[edit]- Andy Brownrigg at Soccerbase
- Profile at Flown From the Nest
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Sheffield
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- English Football League players
- Hereford United F.C. players
- Norwich City F.C. players
- Kettering Town F.C. players
- Rotherham United F.C. players
- Stalybridge Celtic F.C. players
- Yeovil Town F.C. players
- Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. players
- Kidderminster Harriers F.C. players
- Greenock Morton F.C. players
- Hartlepool United F.C. players
- Northwich Victoria F.C. players
- Hednesford Town F.C. players
- Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players
- Wakefield F.C. players
- Maltby Main F.C. players
- Scarborough F.C. players
- Hallam F.C. players
- Buxton F.C. players
- Sheffield F.C. players
- Staveley Miners Welfare F.C. players
- Ossett Albion A.F.C. players
- Worksop Town F.C. players
- Emley A.F.C. players
- Alumni of the University of Huddersfield