Iain Brunskill

A midfielder, Brunskill was an England international at schoolboy and youth level, before joining Liverpool as a full-time player. Between 1995 and 1996, Brunskill was a trainee and young professional player at Liverpool, making over 50 appearances for Liverpool's reserve team. In 1996, he joined Bury, where he remained for a season. In 1997, he joined Leek Town in the Vauxhall Conference, making 80 appearances, followed by stints at Hednesford Town and Runcorn Halton, for whom he made one appearance in the FA Cup. Overall, he made over 200 appearances in professional and semi-professional football, before retiring at age 26 to pursue a full-time career in coaching. ==Coaching career==

In 1998, Brunskill began his coaching career with Liverpool as Assistant Academy Technical Director, a role he held for ten years. In 2013, he became a youth coach educator with the Football Association. He worked with Blackpool's first-team coach Mike Garrity at Liverpool. He returned to Blackpool, again under Critchley, in June 2023, only to leave the role in June 2024 to join Romanian Liga I club Rapid București as assistant coach under Neil Lennon. ==References==