and Sam Barkas were involved in a car crash. Brook suffered a fractured skull. Brook and Barkas were replaced in the England team by Joe Richardson and the Scottish International Tommy Pearson. Brook received £1,625 in compensation for the collision. Retirement As a consequence of the fractured skull that Brook sustained in a car accident while travelling to a wartime international game, he was unable to head a ball and decided to retire from football. His England teammates Frank Swift, Raich Carter, Stanley Matthews, Cliff Bastin and Tommy Lawton were able to continue their careers after the war. The lack of goal scoring wingers, such as Brook and Bastin, in the game in the 1950s was lamented. In contrast to many of his England teammates, following the war, Brook became a coach driver in his home town of Mexborough. Later in his life he also spent time working as a barman in Halifax, and as a crane operator. He died at home in Wythenshawe in March 1965. Legacy Brook is regarded as one of the finest players to have graced the English game and has been inducted into the Manchester City Hall of Fame. In 1977 the Manchester City Council named eleven streets in a new estate in Moss Side after famous City players including Brook. He is listed as the eighth greatest ever City player on the Times website, seventh in Ian Penney's book The Essential History of Manchester City and fourth in the Manchester Evening News. Brook appears in The EFG Bumper Book of QI Annuals in which he is portrayed (imaginarily) with one arm in a sling and another arm in the air, with his hand grasping the Jules Rimet Trophy, with two teammates holding him aloft, in a similar fashion to how Bobby Moore was held aloft by his teammates after England's victory in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, due to his brace in the 3–2 victory over the then World Champions Italy at the Battle of Highbury in 1934. In 2018 Brook was honoured with a plaque in his home town of Mexborough. The plaque was unveiled at Mexborough Athletic Club in May 2018 at an event which was attended by former Manchester City player and club ambassador Mike Summerbee and local MP Ed Miliband. Career statistics Club International goals Honours Manchester City FA Cup: 1933–34 Football League First Division: 1936–37 FA Community Shield: