Brentford's 83 goals for the entire season. A highlight of the season was a four-goal haul in a 6–0 thrashing of Southampton at The Dell on 9 March 1959. Towers' profile rose and he was the subject of bids from higher league clubs Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich City, but he turned the offers down, as due to the maximum wage he was unwilling to move for what would only have been a £2 per week increase to his £18 per week wages. Final years and departure Two further seasons followed, with Towers' last at Griffin Park being 1960–61. In a bizarre move by the club's hierarchy (in response to the removal of the maximum wage), Towers and Francis were deemed surplus requirements and sold. In 2005, Towers revealed that he was "almost begged" to leave Brentford. A potential deal for Towers to return to the Bees during the 1961–62 season collapsed. He was given a testimonial in 1986, which he shared with Johnny Rainford (a former teammate who laid on many of the passes for Towers and Francis from which to score) and the pair shared the £1,100 proceeds. Towers is the club's all-time top scorer with 163 goals in 282 games. In a Football League 125th anniversary poll, Towers was voted as the club's greatest ever player. He was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015. Queens Park Rangers Towers and Francis joined Brentford's Third Division West London rivals Queens Park Rangers in an £8,000 deal in May 1961. He opened his Rangers goalscoring account by breaking Brentford hearts, when he scored in a 3–0 victory in the West London derby on the opening day of the season. He fired in 16 goals in 32 appearances to help Rangers to a fourth-place finish and departed the club in August 1962. Millwall Towers signed for Third Division club Millwall in August 1962 for a £5,000 fee. He scored eight goals in his opening 21 games, but departed in January 1963. Gillingham Towers dropped down to the Fourth Division to reunite with George Francis at Gillingham in January 1963. He showed good form (scoring six goals in just eight games), but had an agonising end to the season after the Gills missed out on promotion with a fifth-place finish. He departed the club in July 1963. Aldershot Towers joined Fourth Division club Aldershot in July 1963. Despite a