Brownbill came through the junior ranks at Anfield before signing professional forms after he turned eighteen. He only played once for the first team, in a League match away to Birmingham City on 15 September 1973. He was substituted by Brian Hall when Liverpool were losing 1-0 and Hall promptly scored the equaliser with just five minutes left. After leaving Anfield in February 1975, Brownbill went on to play 140 games in the lower divisions for Port Vale and Wigan Athletic. He emigrated to USA to play for Cleveland Cobras and then went home...
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"The turning point of my young life came after I had been to a Youth Club dance one Saturday night. On returning home shortly before midnight I was surprised to see a light in the living-room. Normally my parents were in bed soon after ten o' clock. Both mother and father were still up and dressed, and were obviously not there to tick me off for being out so late. There was clearly something in the wind, though what it was I couldn't imagine. Certainly I was not prepared for the words which came immediately I had answered their questions about the dance. Mother could not keep silent longer. Neither could she prepare me gradually for the shock to come. Right out without any preliminaries, she asked: 'Willie, how would you like to live in Liverpool?'
I could only stand and stare. I hadn't the slightest idea what the question conveyed. Football at that moment was far from my thoughts and Liverpool had never been in them at all. When I found words at last all I could say was: 'What on earth do you mean?' Then it came out bit by bit, and as it did I realized that, at the age of sixteen-and-a-half, I was at an important crossroads in my young life."
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