Legendary scout who discovered Wolves legends Swinbourne and Flowers to be honoured with blue plaque
The man responsible for ensuring the likes of Ron Flowers and Roy Swinbourne made their way to Wolves will have his achievements honoured with a blue plaque later this year.
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The Honved heroes, Flowers and Swinbourne, both had fellow South Yorkshireman Mark Crook to thank for engineering their moves to Molineux.
They were just two of more than 90 professionals helped into the game by the legendary scout, who ran Wath Wanderers alongside Wolves Juniors teams in his native South Yorkshire.
That team is believed to have been among the first ever football academies and was run on behalf of Wolves from 1938 to 1970.
Given the backing of legendary boss Stan Cullis who called Wath ‘a football goldmine’, Crook was given the freedom to scout the entirety of Yorkshire and the northeast to try out young players and then send the best ones on for Wolves to further scrutinise.
