THE dressing rooms at a local football club have been named after two of the players who were discovered by a legendary talent finder.

Brampton United are the current residents of Cortonwood Miners’ Welfare which was once the home of Mark Crook’s pioneering feeder team for Wolves.

Mark discovered 114 players who went on to have professional careers and now two of them have their names etched onto the doors of the home and away rooms.

World Cup winner and treble Division One title winner Ron Flowers’ name is on the home door and Bob Hatton, who made more than 700 professional appearances, the most of any of Mark’s finds, has the honour of the away room.

Ron died in 2021 but was represented at the naming ceremony last Saturday by his younger brother John who was also a professional with Stoke City and Doncaster Rovers, sister Jean and sister-in-law, Mary.

Jean said: “He would have been so proud and in his element.

“It is an honour for us to be here to see it and do this for his memory.

“Nobody has forgotten him and it’s a proud day for the Flowers family.”

Bob made the journey from Birmingham for the event with his grandson, Thomas.

He added: “It pulled at the old heartstrings.

“It makes you think of all the good times - those good times were hard times because you were trying to make it.

“But Mark was always encouraging you and giving you hints and tips about the game.

“You were tapping into his experience really.”

A blue plaque was fixed to the building in Brampton earlier this year and a book celebrating Mark’s achievements is out later this year.

You can pre-order Feeding The Wolves, written by the Chronicle’s Ashley Ball, by visiting our front shop on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 10am and 2pm.