Ged Brannan
English association football player and manager (born 1972)
Gerard Daniel Brannan (born 15 January 1972) is an English football manager and former player. He is the assistant manager of Accrington Stanley.
As a player he was a midfielder who notably played in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers, Manchester City and Wigan Athletic, as well as in the Scottish Premier League for Motherwell. He also played professionally for Norwich City, Dunfermline Athletic and Rochdale. He also played non-league football for Accrington Stanley, Radcliffe Borough, Morecambe, Vauxhall Motors and Burscough.
Club career
Brannan had a well-travelled career, beginning at Tranmere Rovers, before a £750,000 transfer to Manchester City in March 1997.
Mostly used as a squad player at Manchester City, he was loaned to Norwich City between August and October 1998, scoring once against Sheffield United, and was then sold to Motherwell for £375,000 in October 1998, thus terminating his spell at Norwich.
Brannan moved onto Wigan in February 2001, where he remained until November 2003, scoring once against Blackpool in the League Cup. Whilst at Wigan he had short loan spells at Dunfermline and Rochdale.
A free transfer to Accrington Stanley in November 2003 was next on the agenda, where he spent two seasons.
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