Playing Career
Born in Liverpool and educated at De La Salle School, Jewell began his career as an apprentice with home-city club Liverpool, but because of the dominance of Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish he never made a first-team league appearance and pursued his career elsewhere.
In December 1984, Jewell moved to Wigan Athletic for £15,000. He made his league debut for Wigan against Rotherham in a 3–3 draw. He played a total of 137 league appearances with Wigan, scoring 35 goals before moving to Bradford City in an £80,000 deal. Terry Dolan brought Jewell to Valley Parade in June 1988 as part of a re-building exercise after the club failed to win promotion to Division One in 1987–88 and had lost Stuart McCall and John Hendrie to Everton and Newcastle United respectively. He spent a decade as a player at City scoring 56 league goals in 269 appearances, and forged a successful partnership with Sean McCarthy for four of those seasons—the most of successful of which was in 1992–93 when Jewell scored 16 league goals and McCarthy 17 in the first season of new player-manager Frank Stapleton.
Jewell had a brief loan spell at Grimsby Town, before returning to Bradford eventually retiring as a player in 1997–98—although his last game came in the promotion-winning season from Division Two in 1995–96 under manager Chris Kamara.
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