Brian George Yeo is a former English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

. He spent almost his entire career playing for Gillingham

Gillingham F.C.

Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...

, for whom he holds the all-time record for the most goals scored in the Football League.

Career

Yeo came through the junior ranks at Portsmouth

Portsmouth F.C.

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 but never made a first-team appearance before Freddie Cox

Freddie Cox

Frederick James Arthur "Freddie" Cox DFC was an English football player and manager.Born in Reading, Berkshire, Cox signed as an 18-year-old for Tottenham Hotspur in 1938. A tricky and talented winger who usually played on the right, he made his Spurs debut in a Second Division match against...

 signed him for Gillingham

Gillingham F.C.

Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...

 in 1963. He scored on his debut for the club and went on to become only the second player ever to score 100 Football League goals for the Kent

Kent

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 club, finishing his career with 136 league goals and 149 in all competitions, both club records which stand to this day. In the 1973–74 season he also equalled Ernie Morgan

Ernie Morgan

Ernest "Ernie" Morgan is an English former professional Association football player and manager. He spent the bulk of his career with Gillingham, where he set a record for the highest number of goals scored in a single season which stands to this day.-Playing career:Morgan worked as a miner from...

's club record of 31 goals in a season.

In 1975 Yeo retired from professional football to concentrate on running a newsagent's in the town, but also had spells managing Folkestone

Folkestone F.C.

Folkestone Football Club was the name of two English football clubs based in the town of Folkestone, Kent. It is unclear if the two clubs were in fact connected, but neither has any formal connection to Folkestone Invicta, who took over the Cheriton Road stadium after the demise of Folkestone F.C....

 and Canterbury City

Canterbury City F.C.

Canterbury City F.C. are a football club currently based in Herne Bay near Canterbury, England. Reformed in 2007, they are the first football club formed as a Community interest company. For the 2011–12 season they will compete in the Kent League Premier Division...

, the latter role, his last involvement in football, finishing in 1984.