[6] The team also reached the final of the FA Cup where the defeated Bolton Wanderers 1–0 with a goal from Billy Meredith.

[6] In the 1904–05 football season Booth scored 8 goals in 35 games for City and helped the team to third place in the league,[2] two points behind champions Newcastle United.

[2][6] At the end of the season the Football Association conducted an investigation into the finances of Manchester City and it was found that the team had made extra payments to all of their players.

[2] He was called into the Royal Garrison Artillery in April 1917 and after service in Britain, he was posted to France in March 1918.

[2] After the armistice, Booth returned to Britain in February 1919, but died of an inoperable heart tumour at Manchester Royal Infirmary on 22 June 1919.