 Under his guidance, the club made a rise from second-bottom in the Scottish Second Division in 1986 to mid-table in the Scottish Premier Division in late 1990.During this period, Brown oversaw the sale of Muirton Park to Asda and the club's move to a newly built McDiarmid Park stadium in the Tulloch area of the city, which was opened in 1989.In August 2006, to mark Brown's twentieth anniversary as chairman of St Johnstone, the "Perthshire Advertiser" published his best-of-Saints XI from the past two decades