Kinkladze's crazy skills
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Remember Helen ringing her bell at Maine Road in my childhood when going to the match mostly with my oldest brother, it made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up or did for me.
I met her once without realising it my Nan was in hospital I went to visit her with my dad, remember a paralympic games was on TV maybe 2000 event but not even sure if it could've been 1996, on the way out she was in there and my dad spotted her and stopped to chat about City for a few mins, probs ignorance of youth I wasn't taking proper notice thought it was one of my Nans friends he spotted, was worried about my Nan who was fine for a good few more years but only realised after we left it was the legendary Helen Turner he was talking to, was gosmacked when he said probs seemed awkward and shy said I was a City fan to her when asked, to which she said I'd obviously been taught well... Can't even remember the hospital she and my Nan were in but a Little Chef and Wimpy Burger were close by I think, maybe the MRI as another said.
She also used to run that flower stall and I knew someone who helped out but sadly like Helen he is no longer with us, all my mum's other kids had a different dad and he used to help her on the stall as a young lad, he got to meet Rodney Marsh before he actually officially signed think Corrigan might've introduced Rodney to Helen and him, Joe said he's our new signing he's gonna help us win the league which obviously never happened, he regularly got to meet 1st team players for a while when helping out Helen though.
Didn't Helen hit or shove a cop with the bell and get it confiscated, cos a cop had refused to help out her son being trampled on during trouble or something along those lines? Might've heard it wrong but sure it's something like that, then after the game Joe Mercer went to the cop shop personally and demanded the local constabulary return Helen Turner's bell, "now!!!!" Which they immediately did.
I met her once without realising it my Nan was in hospital I went to visit her with my dad, remember a paralympic games was on TV maybe 2000 event but not even sure if it could've been 1996, on the way out she was in there and my dad spotted her and stopped to chat about City for a few mins, probs ignorance of youth I wasn't taking proper notice thought it was one of my Nans friends he spotted, was worried about my Nan who was fine for a good few more years but only realised after we left it was the legendary Helen Turner he was talking to, was gosmacked when he said probs seemed awkward and shy said I was a City fan to her when asked, to which she said I'd obviously been taught well... Can't even remember the hospital she and my Nan were in but a Little Chef and Wimpy Burger were close by I think, maybe the MRI as another said.
She also used to run that flower stall and I knew someone who helped out but sadly like Helen he is no longer with us, all my mum's other kids had a different dad and he used to help her on the stall as a young lad, he got to meet Rodney Marsh before he actually officially signed think Corrigan might've introduced Rodney to Helen and him, Joe said he's our new signing he's gonna help us win the league which obviously never happened, he regularly got to meet 1st team players for a while when helping out Helen though.
Didn't Helen hit or shove a cop with the bell and get it confiscated, cos a cop had refused to help out her son being trampled on during trouble or something along those lines? Might've heard it wrong but sure it's something like that, then after the game Joe Mercer went to the cop shop personally and demanded the local constabulary return Helen Turner's bell, "now!!!!" Which they immediately did.