AshtonPark Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 Looking on bcfc.co.uk, it has the list of managers April 1932-March 1949: Bob Hewison * * Bob Hewison was suspended between October 1938 and May 1939. City captain Clarrie Bourton became player/manager for the intervening period. Does anyone happen to know why Bob was suspended from October 1938 to May 1939? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 Illegal payments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 28 minutes ago, AshtonPark said: * Bob Hewison was suspended between October 1938 and May 1939. City captain Clarrie Bourton became player/manager for the intervening period. Bourton and team mate Keating were later transferred and in return City received a load of corrugated iron that became the cover at the East End! For a while it was known as the "Bourton-Keating Stand". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 3 hours ago, 22A said: Bourton and team mate Keating were later transferred and in return City received a load of corrugated iron that became the cover at the East End! For a while it was known as the "Bourton-Keating Stand". You got the transfer fact right and that City were able to build the Covered End with the transfer fee of £4,000. And that it was called, unofficially, the Bourton/Keating stand. But that transfer took place in 1928, and thus had no relevance to the suspension of Hewison in 1938/9 except that Bourton had returned to City and took over from Hewison as manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 4 hours ago, AshtonPark said: Looking on bcfc.co.uk, it has the list of managers April 1932-March 1949: Bob Hewison * * Bob Hewison was suspended between October 1938 and May 1939. City captain Clarrie Bourton became player/manager for the intervening period. Does anyone happen to know why Bob was suspended from October 1938 to May 1939? Appeasing the Germans ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Controller Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 4 hours ago, cidered abroad said: Illegal payments. Yes - as per the following text that was originally on Leedscityfc.org (but is now a dead link - although it's should be viewable via this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20091013174715/http://www.leedscityfc.org/content/view/100/ ) "Hewison later became Bristol City manager, and became embroiled in another illegal payments scandal. On 15 October 1938, another joint Football Association and Football League inquiry into payments made to amateur players fined Bristol City 100 guineas and suspended Hewison until the end of the season." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityexile Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 That’s a fair old stint in fairness. Looks like we were slipping the amateurs the old half crown. Can you imagine...’yes, you can have Kelly and Webster, but we want at least enough correlated iron in return for a stand’. Cannot conceive of it nowadays. Well, at least in this part of Bristol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 7 hours ago, cityexile said: That’s a fair old stint in fairness. Looks like we were slipping the amateurs the old half crown. Can you imagine...’yes, you can have Kelly and Webster, but we want at least enough correlated iron in return for a stand’. Cannot conceive of it nowadays. Well, at least in this part of Bristol. The Gas can only dream of corrugated iron compared to their canvas coverings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 11 hours ago, cityexile said: That’s a fair old stint in fairness. Looks like we were slipping the amateurs the old half crown. Can you imagine...’yes, you can have Kelly and Webster, but we want at least enough correlated iron in return for a stand’. Cannot conceive of it nowadays. Well, at least in this part of Bristol. Any old iron ? Any old Iron ? Any , any , any old Iron ? ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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