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Billy Bremner
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Scottish association football player and manager
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Billy Bremner (1942–1997) was a Scottish association football player and coach. Born in Stirling, he played as a midfielder for Doncaster Rovers F.C., Hull City A.F.C., Leeds United F.C., and the Scotland national under-21 football team. He represented Scotland at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. After his playing career, he served as a coach for Doncaster Rovers F.C. Bremner was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
He authored two books, *Billy Bremner's Scottish football heroes* and *Billy Bremner's Book of soccer*. Bremner died of a myocardial infarction in Doncaster.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1942
- Died
- 1997
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Billy Bremner's Scottish football heroes
- Billy Bremner's Book of soccer
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1946
Discography
- Bash!1984
- Shatterproof1984
- A Good Week's Work1998
- No Ifs, Buts, Maybes2005
- Rock Files2012
- Cocktail of the Year2020
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,025
- Total plays
- 22,279
Tags
William 'Billy' Bremner (born in 1947, in Scotland) is best known for his work as guitar player in the band Rockpile. Rockpile played on the bulk of Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds' albums throughout the mid 1970s but only released one album under their own name. In addition to his guitarist duties, Bremner occasionally sang lead, as he did on "Heart" and "You Ain't Nothing But Fine" on 1980's "Seconds Of Pleasure." He also wrote Edmunds' hit "Trouble Boys" <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Billy+Brem
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
· 2018 · cited 9,635x
- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
<i>Phenix</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,466x
- The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
· 2020 · cited 5,345x
- Real-space refinement in
<i>PHENIX</i>
for cryo-EM and crystallography
· 2018 · cited 3,738x
- Use of p-nitrophenyl phosphate for assay of soil phosphatase activity
· 1969 · cited 3,602x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 1963
- Scotland XI
- Full name
- William John Bremner
- Date of birth
- ( 1942-12-09 ) 9 December 1942
- Place of birth
- Raploch , Stirling , Scotland
- Date of death
- 7 December 1997 (1997-12-07) (aged 54)
- Place of death
- Clifton, Doncaster , England
- Height
- 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
- Position
- Midfielder
- 1959 1960
- Leeds United
- Years
- Team
- 1960 1976
- Leeds United
- 1976 1978
- Hull City
- 1980 1982
- Doncaster Rovers
- 1964 1965
- Scotland U23
- 1965 1975
- Scotland
- 1978 1985
- Doncaster Rovers
- 1985 1988
- Leeds United
- 1989 1991
- Doncaster Rovers
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Billy
- Family name
- Bremner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stirling
- Place of death
- Doncaster
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1974 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Scotland men's national football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Scotland
- Image
- Billy Bremner (1971).jpg
- Height
- 165
Show 9 more facts
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1942-12-09
- date of death
- 1997-12-07
- Commons category
- Billy Bremner (association football player)
- manner of death
- natural causes
- sport number
- 4
- coach of sports team
- Doncaster Rovers F.C.
- birth name
- William John Bremner
- name in native language
- Billy Bremner
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
William John Bremner (9 December 1942 – 7 December 1997) was a Scottish professional footballer and manager. Regarded as one of the game's great midfielders, he combined precision passing skills with tenacious tackling and physical stamina. He played for Leeds United from 1959 to 1976, serving as captain from 1965, in the most successful period in the club's history.
At Leeds, Bremner won the First Division (1968–69 and 1973–74), Second Division (1963–64), Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (1968 and 1971), FA Cup (1972), League Cup (1968) and FA Charity Shield (1969). The club also finished second in numerous competitions, being runners-up five times in the English league and seven times in cup finals, including the 1975 European Cup. He was also named as the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1970 and was listed on the PFA Team of the Year in 1973–74. He has since been voted Leeds United's greatest player of all time and has a statue outside the south-east corner of their Elland Road stadium. He has also been included in the Football League 100 Legends and is a member of both the English Football Hall of Fame and Scottish Football Hall of Fame.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Billy Bremner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.