Brian was a former goalkeeper with his home town club Great Yarmouth in the Eastern Counties League before relocating to Bury St Edmunds with his work. It was from then that he started following the Blues.

After becoming a volunteer he became a Director of the Club and held many positions such as press officer and match reporter, as well as a time as the stadium announcer. He also wrote the weekly notes for the Green Un' website under the name Sugar Daddy, a reference to his former employment at British Sugar.

Brian resigned from the Board but in the past few years had continued to be a season ticket holder and member, as well as a representative of the Club in the boardrooms at away matches, and was still following the club right up until the early end of the 2019-20 season.

Unfortunately Brian had recently spent a period of time in West Suffolk Hospital and died from a cardiac arrest on Friday.

Bury Town supporter and fellow volunteer Alan Wainwright had the following to say:

"I saw Brian on Wednesday afternoon at West Suffolk Hospital and took him the fixture list and the latest couple of news items from the website; he was determined to get back to Ram Meadow - his sights were set for the home game on 10th October.

On Thursday morning, I received a text from Brian's wife to say that Brian had suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday evening and was deeply unconscious; he didn't recover from that, and this morning, Joan informed me that Brian had passed away on Friday night.

Brian had many friends down at the club, and we're all going to miss him.

RIP Brian