'on the small side' but 'a clever winger'. The pair made their debuts for City on 17 March in a 2–0 victory against Grimsby Town. Brook and Tilson joined a strong forward line at the club that included three England internationals in Tommy Johnson, Billy Austin and Frank Roberts. The team also included the England international centre half Sam Cowan and the Scotland captain Jimmy McMullan. Brook scored his first goal for his new team in a 5–3 victory against Clapton Orient. Frank Roberts scored a hat trick in this game. In his first season for Manchester City, Brook played 12 times and scored two goals, helping the team to earn promotion to the First Division. City defeated already promoted Leeds United 1-0 in April 1928 to secure promotion. City then defeated Southampton 6-1 to take them to the top of the division. In the 1928–29 football season Brook made 42 appearances and scored 14 times. His teammate, Tommy Johnson, scored a club record of 38 league goals that season. Brook scored once, and Johnson scored five times, in a 6-2 defeat of Everton in September that season. In the 1929–30 football season Brook helped Manchester City to third in the league. The City team had been strengthened by the acquisition of the outside right Ernie Toseland and the wing half Matt Busby. Brook scored a brace in a 6-1 victory against Liverpool in October that season. Brook also scored in a 10-1 victory against Swindon Town in the fourth round of the 1929–30 FA Cup. City were defeated 2-1 by Hull City in the subsequent round. In the 1930–31 football season City bought the prolific Scottish centre forward Dave Halliday from Arsenal as a replacement for Tommy Johnson. Despite this, Brook was the club's top scorer that season with 16 goals, and was also the club's top scorer in 1935–36. He often played in the centre forward position for his club, roaming the pitch, which later drew comparisons with Don Revie and Nándor Hidegkuti in this position. In the 1931–32 season the City team, which now included the Scottish centre forward Alec Herd, managed to reach the semi-final of the FA Cup but were defeated by Arsenal by 1–0 with a goal from Brook's England teammate Cliff Bastin. Brook had scored a brace in a 6–1 demolition of Brentford in the fourth round of that year's competition. Greater success