Which team did the player Johnny Brooks belong to after Jan 1967?
Johnny Brooks John Brooks ( 23 December 1931 – 7 June 2016 ) was an English professional footballer and manager who played for Reading , Tottenham Hotspur , Chelsea , Brentford , Crystal Palace in the Football League . Brooks won three England caps and scored two goals . Towards the end of his career he played in non-league football with Stevenage Town and Cambridge City and in North America with Cleveland Stokers . He later player-managed Knebworth . His son Shaun Brooks also had a career in professional football . Playing career . Reading . Brooks career began as a youth at Coley Old Boys , Mount Pleasant , Castle Street Institute and he also represented Reading & Berkshire schoolboys . An inside forward , began his senior club career at hometown Third Division South club Reading . Brooks joined the Royals in February 1949 as an amateur and signed a professional contract two months later . While with Reading , Brooks served his national service at Aldershot and represented the Army football team . He made 46 league appearances and scored five goals over the course of a three-year spell and helped the club to third and second-place finishes in the 1950–51 and 1951–52 seasons respectively.<ref F.C.|id=READING } } </ref></ref> Brooks departed Elm Park in February 1953 and was posthumously inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2018 . Tottenham Hotspur . After turning down moves to Newcastle United , Arsenal and West Ham United , Brooks joined First Division club Tottenham Hotspur in February 1953 for a £6,000 fee , with Dennis Uphill and Harry Robshaw moving to Reading . He later recalled that Tottenham had always been in his blood , after watching the 1949–50 Second Division and 1950–51 First Division championship triumphs on the terraces at White Hart Lane . After beginning his career with the club in the reserve team , Brooks made his first team debut in a 2–0 defeat to Stoke City on 6 April 1953 , but it would prove to be his only appearance of the 1952–53 season . By the 1954–55 season , Brooks had broken through into the first team and made 31 appearances , scoring seven goals . After the departure of manager Arthur Rowe in 1955 , the best years of Brooks Spurs career came under new manager Jimmy Anderson and he scored in double figures to help Tottenham to second and third-place finishes in the 1956–57 and 1957–58 seasons respectively.<ref Hotspur His performances also won him England recognition . A bust up with new manager Bill Nicholson after a 6–0 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1958 was the beginning of the end of Brooks time at White Hart Lane and he departed the club in December 1959 . Brooks scored 51 goals in 179 appearances during his six and a half years with Tottenham . Chelsea . Brooks joined First Division club Chelsea for a £20,000 fee in December 1959 , with Les Allen moving to Tottenham Hotspur in exchange . The move reunited Brooks with his former Reading manager Ted Drake . He made 52 appearances and scored seven goals over the course of a spell which lasted until September 1961 . Brentford . Brooks signed for Chelseas West London neighbours Brentford in September 1961 in a £5,000 deal . He made 38 league appearances and scored 10 goals over the course of a disastrous 1961–62 season in the Third Division , with a 23rd-place finish relegating the Bees to the Fourth Division for the 1962–63 season . In the Fourth Division , Brooks was the playmaker and inspired Brentford to the title , making 39 appearances , scoring 22 goals and winning the first club silverware of his career . He missed the final few games of the season after suffering a torn groin and his fitness troubles continued into the 1963–64 season , in which he scored four goals in six games before leaving the club . Brooks made 92 appearances and scored over 40 goals during his time at Griffin Park . Looking back in 2005 , Brooks revealed in many ways the two years I spent at Brentford were my happiest in the game . Crystal Palace . Brooks joined Third Division club Crystal Palace in January 1964 . He made just seven appearances for the club before departing at the end of the 1963–64 season , after the clubs promotion to the Second Division was confirmed . Toronto City . Brooks spurned the interest of Lincoln City and Aldershot and travelled to Canada in May 1964 , to sign for Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League club Toronto City . Among his teammates at the club were Tony Book , Ted Purdon , Norman Sykes and player-manager Malcolm Allison . Non-league football . Brooks returned to the UK in September 1964 and signed for Southern League club Stevenage Town , managed by George Curtis . He later moved within the league to join Cambridge City . Cleveland Stokers . Brooks returned to North America to play in the North American Soccer League with Cleveland Stokers in 1968 . He made 22 appearances and scored one goal in his spell . Return to non-league football . After his return to the UK , Brooks played for and managed Herts Senior County League club Knebworth well into his fifties . He later coached the teams at Moordown Youth and served as president of Bournemouth . International career . Brooks goalscoring for Tottenham Hotspur won him a call up to the England squad for a British Home Championship match versus Wales on 14 November 1956 . He scored the second goal in a 3–1 victory . He was called up again for a friendly versus Yugoslavia two weeks later and again got on the scoresheet in a 3–0 win . Brooks third and final cap came in a 5–2 1958 World Cup qualification win over Denmark on 5 December 1956 . Personal life . Brooks was one of the earliest British footballers to endorse hair products , advertising Max Factor shampoo during the 1950s . Brooks son Shaun was also a professional footballer and played for Leyton Orient , Crystal Palace , Bournemouth , was capped by England at schoolboy and youth level and managed Dorchester Town . After retiring from football , Brooks worked alongside friend and former teammate Tommy Harmer as a brokers messenger for Bank Hapoalim , until being made redundant at the age of 60 . With the help of former teammate Micky Dulin , Brooks then became a park-keeper at Ridgeway Park in Chingford . Brooks retired and moved to Bournemouth in 1997 . It was reported in 2014 that Brooks was suffering with vascular dementia and he died on 7 June 2016 . Honours . England - British Home Championship : 1956–57 Brentford - Football League Fourth Division : 1962–63 Crystal Palace - Football League Third Division second-place promotion : 1963–64 Individual - Reading Hall of Fame External links . - Fact file - England international career - Johnny Brooks interview - Tottenham Hotspur F.C A-Z of players