Brett Johnson

Career

Early years and Football League (2002–2009) A defender, Johnson began his career with Isthmian League club Ashford Town (Middlesex) and transferred to Conference club Aldershot Town on 6 February 2004. He was a part of the team which reached the Conference Premier play-off semi-finals at the end of the 2004–05 season and earned a move to League Two club Northampton Town on 1 July 2005. Johnson's time at Sixfields was hampered by persistent hamstring injuries and despite spells away on loan in non-League football to gain fitness, he managed just 13 appearances before his contract expired at the end of the 2006–07 season. He signed successive six-month contracts to remain with the club for the duration of the 2007–08 season and made something of a breakthrough, making 18 appearances. He dropped back down to League Two to join Brentford, the club he supports, on a one-year contract in August 2008. He made just 12 appearances during an injury-hit season and was released in June 2009,

AFC Wimbledon and return to non-League football (2009–2017) In August 2009, Johnson dropped into the Conference Premier to join AFC Wimbledon. he was a part of the team which clinched promotion to the Football League for the first time in the club's history with victory in the 2011 Conference Premier play-off final. after having made 94 appearances and scored six goals during three seasons at Kingsmeadow. where he remained for two seasons and won the 2013–14 Surrey Senior Cup. A three-season spell with Margate followed (which included victory in the 2015 Isthmian League Premier Division play-off Final to win promotion to the National League South) in which he captained the team, but a combined torn cruciate, meniscus, medial ligament and fractured fibia injury suffered in a collision with his own goalkeeper in February 2017 forced him to take a break from football.

Career statistics

Honours Brentford Football League Two: 2008–09 Woking

Surrey Senior Cup: 2013–14