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As the war ended, regular league football returned in 1946, cheap football kit with the regional leagues disbanded. The Southern Football League was a Scottish regional football competition held during World War II, new football kits due to the suspension of the Scottish Football League (an interim nationwide War Emergency League was played in the 1939-40 season). A fast and tricky winger on the field, and a colourful character off it, Jimmy Conlin played for Rovers from 1901 to 1904, helping the club win the Scottish Combination Championship in 1901-02. He was transferred to Bradford City and played for England (the country of his birth) against Scotland at Hampden Park in 1906. He was subsequently transferred to Manchester City for £1,000, which made him the most expensive footballer in the world at the time, jointly with Alf Common.