PHIL Brown has been ordered to get into line by the Football League.

The Wanderers coach, famed for his animated touchline antics, has been told to stay behind a thin red line which has been painted round the substitutes' bench.

Brown, the ultimate enthusiast, has reacted to the directive from Lytham St Annes with typical humour, referring to the box as his "jailhouse".

But he managed less than ten minutes of restraint before straying out of bounds during last night's titanic tussle with Tranmere when the new area appeared for the first time. Complaints from referees, who have witnessed Brown's jack-in-a-box prompted the League to remind Burnden officials that the coaching staff must stay within a designated area. But because there is no "dugout" as such, Wanderers have had to draw lines one metre either side and in front of the two subs benches.

Coaches can sit or stand anywhere inside the box but Brown joked: "They'll need bars to keep me inside and Colin Todd will be the same when he gets down there!"

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