David Dein, one of the great trailblazers of English football, has helped write another lovely football fairytale.
Dein told a moving story in his autobiography, Calling The Shots, about how former Arsenal striker Charlie Nicholas had visited a fan who had been in a coma after being involved in an accident riding his moped.
Arsenal fan Russell Brown’s mother had written to Dein asking whether ex-Scotland star Nicholas could visit her son in Homerton Hospital as she desperately tried to help him recover. Dein described it as a “modern miracle” because Nicholas went, spoke to the fan and the pair of them saw his eyes flicker - and Brown woke the next day.
