Phil Brown won’t be turning Barrow into Brazil to ensure the Bluebirds’ Football League survival.

New boss Brown’s approach will be pragmatism rather than pure football in AFC’s nine remaining games of the campaign.

And the former Premier League chief, 62, hopes the Holker Street faithful will buy into the approach until survival is guaranteed.

Only bottom club Scunthorpe have scored fewer goals than Barrow’s total of 33 ahead of Saturday’s trip to rejuvenated Londoners Leyton Orient.

“Long term, I am hoping it will be entertaining football, winning football,” said Brown during Wednesday’s visit to the ground and town.

“But at the moment I have to park philosophy on the back burner in the pursuit of results. The most important thing is getting the points on the board to take the pressure off everyone.

“I hope people will understand that. The philosophy is not of now; the philosophy is what are we going to be doing next season?

“It is about results, not so much performances. It’s about rolling the sleeves up, being difficult to beat and being horrible enough to get to the ball to the good players we have so they can go and express themselves.

“All those pieces of the jigsaw have got to be pulled together this week in time for a tough game on Saturday.”

Despite Barrow’s precarious position, supporters hadn’t turned on Brown’s predecessor, Mark Cooper. And there were plenty expressing surprise when the latter was relieved of his command 24 hours after the derby day defeat to Carlisle.

However, Brown, who holds the distinction of being sacked by clubs in all five divisions (including the National League) will make every attempt to connect with fans and try to win over the doubters.

“The embracing of an ex-Premier League manager in town has gone. I am a [League Two] manager now.

“I am at Barrow-in-Furness trying to keep the club in League Two so their history can be fruitful.

“All that takes a lot of support off the field. That is what I have been witnessing. It has been brilliant and I have really enjoyed meeting the people.

“They are behind me at the moment. But the most important thing are results to keep them behind me so they are supportive over a period of time.”