Tommy Cook is still Brighton's record goalscorerTommy Cook, The Double Life of a Superstar Sportsman covers his colourful life and his highly successful careers with Albion and Sussex County Cricket Club. It commemorates the 120th anniversary of Tommy’s birth in Cuckfield on January 5, 1901, and the ‘birth’ of Albion later the same year. Cook scored 123 goals from 1922 to 1929 for Brighton, and Glenn Murray, now on loan at Watford, is the only modern-day player to approach his figure. In his professional cricket career between 1922 and 1937, Cook scored a total of 20,198 first-class runs, including 22 in a North and South match which was an England trial. “I hope the book is a fitting tribute to a man who still holds the goalscoring record for Albion, 90 years after he set it, and also scored more than 20,000 runs for Sussex.”

Source: Express January 14, 2021 15:56 UTC