| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Wilson Flavell | ||
| Date of birth | (1921-09-01)1 September 1921 | ||
| Place of birth | Annathill, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 18 March 2005(2005-03-18) (aged 83)[1] | ||
| Place of death | Airdrie, Scotland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | ||
| Positions | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Kirkintilloch Rob Roy | |||
| 1937–1947 | Airdrieonians | 62 | (51) |
| 1947–1950 | Heart of Midlothian | 69 | (26) |
| 1950 | Millonarios[2] | 12 | (3) |
| 1951–1954 | Dundee | 68 | (32) |
| 1954–1956 | Kilmarnock | 38 | (13) |
| 1956–1958 | St Mirren | 22 | (6) |
| Total | 271 | (131) | |
| International career | |||
| 1944[3] | Scotland (wartime) | 1 | (0) |
| 1947[4] | Scottish Football League XI | 2 | (6) |
| 1947[1] | Scotland | 2 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1961 | Ayr United | ||
| 1961–1962 | St Mirren | ||
| 1963–1964 | Ayr United | ||
| 1965–1966 | Albion Rovers | ||
| 1969–1972 | Albion Rovers | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Robert Wilson Flavell (1 September 1921 – 18 March 2005) was a Scottishfootball player andmanager. His senior playing career, which was delayed by theSecond World War, had its high point atDundee, where he won twoScottish League Cup winners' medals in consecutive years. Flavell won two caps for theScotland national football team, both in 1947. He later became a manager ofAyr United,St Mirren andAlbion Rovers.
Flavell was born inAnnathill,North Lanarkshire in 1921. He joined the senior game by signing forAirdrie in 1937 as a teenager, but only played two seasons before the war broke out;[5] he had to wait until the1946–47 season to make another league appearance. During the conflict, Flavell had made guest appearances for bothArsenal andTottenham. When theScottish Football League resumed in 1946, Flavell scored over a goal per game for Airdrie and won his two caps forScotland, which convincedHeart of Midlothian to pay £10,000 to acquire his services.
Flavell again scored frequently at Hearts, but he became a football outcast on 12 June 1949 by signing forMillonarios, of the breakawayColombian league, a move that Hearts managerDave McLean said meant he would "never play for Hearts again". Flavell played alongside the legendaryAlfredo Di Stefano in Bogota, but at the end of the Colombian season returned to Scotland in December 1950; he was punished heavily for his actions in going to Colombia, attracting far stronger sanctions than English players who had made a similar move. He was fined £150 – then a record fine for a Scottish player – and suspended from playing until May 1951. He was transfer-listed by Hearts in February 1951, before signing forDundee in April, making his debut for the club in a Dewar Shield game against St Johnstone on 5 May 1951.Flavell scored goals in both the1951 and1952Scottish League Cup Finals, which helped Dundee win the cup in successive years. He also played in the1952 Scottish Cup Final, which ended in a 4–0 defeat byMotherwell. He also played forKilmarnockandSt Mirren before retiring as a player.
Flavell had five stints as a manager at three clubs, starting withAyr United in 1961. He quickly moved toSt Mirren, whom he guided to the1962 Scottish Cup Final. He briefly returned to Ayr, before having two spells atAlbion Rovers. Flavell later became a director of Albion Rovers.
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