I heard that the triple Brownlow medallist former Blues coach was sacked for a different reason.
The mail I got was that there was an incident in the showers involving "Sellers" McLure. Ian allegedly thought that Sellers batted for the other side and so put the word on him when they happened to be alone together.
Sellers was straight as a die and beat the living ■■■■ out of Stewie and informed all the players and the club hierarchy what had occurred. Ian was pretty badly beaten up so the club went with the story that he had a heart attack so he would not have to face the media in the short term as the injuries inflicted by McClure were very visible.
I cannot remember whether this was before Stewie "dragged" a copper along Little Collins Street hanging on to the door of his Mercedes whilst dressed in drag. That made the press and I reckon charges were laid.
Lucky he was a great footballer...