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- ↑ "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Bury" . Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Hibernian F.C.: Jock Allan
- ↑ The Match Fixing Scandal in the 1920s [ dead link ]
- ↑ Blast From The Remote Past: On This Day 1920: CCFC Survive In What Became 'The Bury Affair', Coventry City Former Players' Association, 1 May 2019
- ↑ Coventry Match-Fixing Scandal Relegates Imps, The Stacey West, 17 November 2017
- ↑ Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-3429-4.