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02-04 Soccer Schoolmasters (PROOFED) P18-19 King John 13/06/2012 12:35 Page 1 02-04 Soccer schoolmasters (PROOFED)_p18-19 king john 13/06/2012 12:35 Page 1 BRIBES AND BANS: HANDSOME TOM MALEY AND MANCHESTER CITY Sport has probably never been as important to many people as it is today. Indeed the next few years see a veritable sporting feast in Britain. The 2012 Olympics are an obvious starting point but in addition there will be the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2013, the World Athletics Championships in London in 2014 and the Rugby World Cup in 2015. The Church, it could be argued, has been slow to take up the issue of sport in contemporary British society, an omission that is being rectified with the establishment of the John Paul II Foundation for Sport in October 2010, yet Catholics have made a tremendous contribution to Britain’s sporting heritage. Puzzlingly many of the stories of these sporting pioneers have been ignored, lost or forgotten to the disadvantage of history. In order to restore these pioneers to their rightful place in the sporting chronicle of our lands a series of 12 biographies of influential Catholic educational and sporting pioneers will be told over the next year. The men selected all trained as elementary schoolteachers at St Mary’s College in either Brook Green, Hammersmith or Twickenham. They taught in elementary schools before going on to positions of distinction after their college careers. We begin with a story of a bribery scandal that shook English football to the core and resulted in the manager and 25 players and officials being banned from football sine die by the Football Association. The club was Manchester City and the manager was Tom Maley. Early Celtic Team: Willie Groves, Tom Maley, Paddy Gallagher, Willie Dunning, Willie Maley, Mick Dunbar, Johnny Coleman, Jas McLaren, Jas Kelly, Neil McCallum, Mick McKeown. aley, the son of an army sergeant, was born in M Portsmouth in 1865 but later which his family moved to Glasgow. He trained as a teacher at St Mary’s Training College in Hammersmith between 1885- 6, and quickly developed a reputation as a fine footballer playing for Cathcart, Hibernians, Partick Thistle and Third Lanark before becoming one of the founders of Glasgow Celtic and playing in their first ever fixture, a 5-2 victory against Glasgow Rangers in 1888. The origins of the club are important in allowing us to understand Maley’s character and his motivation to use his considerable footballing skills for the improvement of the lives of poor Irish Catholics in Glasgow. In 1887, Hibernians, an almost exclusively Irish Catholic club in Edinburgh, won the Scottish F.A. Cup. Before they returned to Edinburgh (the 2 02-04 Soccer schoolmasters (PROOFED)_p18-19 king john 13/06/2012 12:35 Page 2 Soccer schoolmasters: Part 1 of a 12 part series by Colm Hickey game was played in Glasgow) their Glaswegian supporters arranged a dinner in their honour after the match. During the after-dinner speeches the Hibernian secretary commented that a similar club in Glasgow would be a good idea. In the audience was a local elementary schoolteacher, Brother Walfrid, headteacher of St Andrew’s School, and Brother Superior of the Marist Teaching Order in Glasgow. In November, 1887, he held an inaugural meeting to establish Glasgow Celtic Football Club. The original purpose of the club was to raise money for destitute Irish Catholics in the east end of Glasgow. ‘After the deduction of the necessary expenses… any remaining monies could be directed towards the East End Conferences of the St Vincent de Paul Society and thus the Poor Children’s Dinner Tables in the parishes of St Mary’s, St Michael’s and the Sacred Heart.’ After a playing career of 20 years, Maley was ready for a new challenge. At 37 his playing days were over and he was interviewed for the post of secretary/manager at Everton in 1902 but was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, the interview experience spurred him on to try elsewhere. As he himself said, “Having, so to speak, sampled the goods, I was determined upon acquiring them, and so several months later found me in close association and contact with Manchester City.” The club had finished bottom of the First Division with only 28 points from 34 games but Maley’s impact on the club was immediate. The club lost only five of the next 34 games and won the Second Division and promotion back to the First Division with four points to spare over Small Heath. Further success followed and the team seemed destined for greatness. They won the FA Cup in 1904 beating Sunderland, Arsenal, Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday on their way to the final, where they beat Bolton Wanderers 1-0. The club narrowly missed out on ‘the double’, finishing runners up to Sheffield Wednesday. In the last game of the 1904/05 season, Manchester City played Aston Villa at Villa Park, needing a win to secure the ability.” On hearing of his appointment one of his friends championship. Villa won 3-2 after being 3-0 up. After the match, remarked to him that “it will take you a jolly sight longer than it rumours circulated that some Villa players had been offered did when you took Manchester up.” Within three years, bribes to throw the game. In August, City’s star player, Billy however, Maley had achieved his aim and realised the dreams of Meredith, was suspended by the FA after Aston Villa’s Alec Leake the Bradford public by securing promotion to Division One. A reported that Meredith had offered him a £10 bribe. Meredith contemporary wrote that “Mr Maley has played the part of the initially denied the allegation, but an FA inquiry found him guilty strong man in Bradford football. He has been given considerable and banned him from the game until April 1906. Meredith then freedom in running the club, selecting the team and so on, and changed his story admitting the offer of a bribe, but claimed that there are not wanting those who have dubbed him autocratic. he was only acting under Maley’s orders: The truth is, however, that he possess that important quality, On hearing this new evidence, the FA ordered a full confidence in himself, and today he is in a position to laugh at his investigation into the club’s accounts. A whole manner of critics. He came to the Avenue to take the club into the First irregularities was uncovered, ranging from amateurs being Division, he said he would do it and he has done it.” paid to ‘dummy’ players on the books, and senior players Bradford had begun the most glorious chapter of its history and being paid more than the maximum weekly wage… The had reached the First Division, and, in their first season, finished a chairman W. Forrest and manager Maley were banned sine die highly creditable ninth. For the next four years, the league was and 17 were also players banned and fined. The club itself was suspended and was not resumed until 1919-20 when the club fined £250 and the players, in total, £900. finished 11th. The next year they were relegated to Division Two Barred from football, Maley returned to teaching and became and in 1921-22 they were again relegated into Division Three headmaster of St Mary’s Catholic School, Calton, in Glasgow. (North). They narrowly missed promotion back to Division Two He remained in that post until his ban was rescinded in 1911. A in 1923 before Maley resigned in 1924, ending his managerial number of clubs were interested in him and a friend arranged an career at Southport in 1925. He returned to his beloved Scotland interview with Bradford Park Avenue’s chairman, A. H. Briggs. and in his retirement became a Governor of Slatefield Industrial “What impressed me,” explained Maley …”was the intense School in Glasgow. desire he had to see the Bradford club grouped with the best clubs in the league and also his thoroughness and organising continues on page 4 3 02-04 Soccer schoolmasters (PROOFED)_p18-19 king john 13/06/2012 12:35 Page 3 Soccer schoolmasters: Part 1 of a 12 part series by Colm Hickey Maley’s managerial career spanned over 500 games with three clubs. He had a healthy 44% wins. Maley died in 1935 aged 70. He was one of the best-known Catholic laymen in Scotland in his day and his funeral was attended by 50 priests and thousands of people. However, his contribution to the development of professional football has been largely forgotten. At his funeral the footballing establishment paid its respects. Both the president and vice-president of the Scottish Football Association attended as did the Secretary of the Scottish Football League: A wealth of beautiful wreaths were placed on the grave…Among them were tributes from…Celtic FC and the Celtic players, Rangers FC; Partick Thistle FC; Third Lanark FC; Clyde FC; Queen’s Park FC; Portsmouth FC; Sunderland FC; Sheffield Wednesday FC; and numerous provincial clubs in addition to practically every known football legislative organisation. Throughout his life Maley never lost his Manchester City bribery scandal remained concern for the poor, nor his conviction a stain upon his character, his actions that games were a means of providing should be seen in the context of a life and both health and happiness for the a career that was undoubtedly more good disadvantaged in society. As a young man than bad. The Glasgow Star commented, he helped establish a club whose raison ‘Of his personal character one cannot d’etre was the eradication of poverty.
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