He also played for Scottish Football League club Ayr at the start and end of his career,[1] and for Southern League clubs Brighton United, Gravesend United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Watford.
[6] In December 1901 McAvoy had a confrontation with Brighton & Hove Albion's manager, John Jackson which didn't calm down.
In August, McAvoy, along with fellow former player, Clem Barker, went to the Farm Tavern (which Jackson ran) looking for him.
He was away and the pair told his wife; "We are going to the station to meet your husband, and you must consider yourself lucky if he is brought home alive!".
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