Tom Brooks (footballer)

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Tom Brooks
Personal information
Full name Thomas William Brooks [1]
Date of birth(1948-02-02)2 February 1948 [1]
Place of birth Wallsend, England
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Lincoln City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1965–1971 Lincoln City 113 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas William Brooks (born 2 February 1948) is an English former professional footballer who made 113 appearances in the Football League playing for Lincoln City. He played as a defender. [2]

Brooks was born in Wallsend, which was then in Northumberland. [1] He was an apprentice with Lincoln City [2] before making his debut on 10 April 1965 in a 2–0 win against Darlington in the Football League Fourth Division. He scored only once in a six-year career with the club, [1] "a ferocious 30-yard drive" to give Lincoln a 2–0 lead away at Brentford in April 1968. [3] He finished his league career in 1971 after 120 appearances in senior competition. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Tom Brooks". The Lincoln City FC Archive. Lincoln City F.C. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Lincoln City: 1946/47–1986/87 & 1988/89–2010/11". UK A-Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Cobb clobbers his old club". Daily Express. 24 April 1968. p. 16.


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