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WHEN FOOTBALL IS THE BE ALL AND END ALL IMAGE OF SOME KIND (DOMINANT IMAGE) 20 Page TV Guide Inside FRIDAY/JUNE/25TH/2009 WWW.DMBIRMINGHAM.CO.UK 47p 20 Page TV Guide Inside DAILY MAIL By John Davis CITY CHAIRMAN EARTFELT tributes continue to pour in for a talented amateur footballer who col- lapsed and died during a school match. Adam Johnson failed to regain consciousness de- spite desperate efforts to save him during a Bir- mingham & District AFA Division Two game be- tween Harborne School and Kings Norton Boys last Tuesday. Kieran Morris, manager of Kings Norton Boys, said Adam’s father Terry Johnson was absolutely devastated at the loss. “His father told me that they were best friends and he was traumatised at the news. “They were really close and the way in which he died came as a total shock because he had no history of any problems. “From my point of view he was a fantastic footballer and a full-blooded cap- tain who changed our team around.” Kings Norton Boys Head master Roy Baylis said- team-mate and former soldier Simon Wilson des- perately battled to save Adam and without his help no one would have known what to do. “He was 20 yards away from any other player so it was nothing to do with a challenge or anything like that.” “When Simon saw what had happened he grabbed the referee’s handbook and rammed it down Adam’s throat because he saw he was choking. He knew that he needed to clear his airways. The air ambulance came within minutes but it was too late.” Mr Morris said the club is planning to hold a memo- rial service for the popular defender. Full Story on Page 4&5 Adam Johnson with fellow friends Simon Wilson (right) Abdul Khan (left) in 2008’s Division Three Finals H BIRMINGHAM What’sOn FREE IMAGE OF SOME KIND MP DECLARES NEW TAX SYSTEMS STARTS p8 BOURNVILE SCHOOL CANTEEN BURNS DOWN STARTS p11 ‘‘Au Revoir’’ shouts the 35th Signal Regiment’s THEY risked life and limbs with incredible acts of bravery but members of the 35th Signal Regiment waved an emotional goodbye in Birmingham over the weekend. An hour-long ceremony in Victoria Square marked the end of the long-serving special- ist communications regiment which was disbanded as part of the re-structuring of the Royal Corps of Signals. Full story on Page 6 EXCLUSIVE
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WHEN FOOTBALL IS THE BE ALL AND END ALL
IMAGE OF SOME KIND
(DOMINANT IMAGE)
20 Page TV Guide Inside
FRIDAY/JUNE/25TH/2009 WWW.DMBIRMINGHAM.CO.UK 47p
20 Page TV Guide Inside
DAILY MAIL
By John DavisCITY CHAIRMAN
EARTFELT tributes continue to pour in for a talented amateur footballer who col-lapsed and died during a school match.
Adam Johnson failed to regain consciousness de-spite desperate efforts to save him during a Bir-mingham & District AFA Division Two game be-tween Harborne Schooland Kings Norton Boys last Tuesday.
Kieran Morris, manager of Kings Norton Boys, said Adam’s father Terry Johnson was absolutelydevastated at the loss.
“His father told me that they were best friends and he was traumatised at the news.
“They were really closeand the way in which he died came as a total shock because he had no history of any problems.
“From my point of view he was a fantastic footballer and a full-blooded cap-tain who changed our team around.”
Kings Norton Boys Headmaster Roy Baylis said-team-mate and former soldier Simon Wilson des-perately battled to save Adam and without his help no one would have known what to do.
“He was 20 yards away
from any other player so it was nothing to do with a challenge or anything like that.”
“When Simon saw what had happened he grabbed the referee’s handbook and rammed it down Adam’s throat because he saw he was choking.
He knew that he needed to clear his airways.
The air ambulance came within minutes but it was too late.”
Mr Morris said the club is planning to hold a memo-rial service for the popular defender.
Full Story on Page 4&5Adam Johnson with fellow friends Simon Wilson (right) Abdul Khan (left) in 2008’s Division Three Finals
H
BIRMINGHAM What’sOn FREE
IMAGE OF SOME KIND
MP DECLARES NEW TAX SYSTEMS STARTS p8 BOURNVILE SCHOOL CANTEEN BURNS DOWN STARTS p11
‘‘Au Revoir’’shouts the 35th Signal Regiment’s
THEY risked life and limbs with
incredible acts of bravery but members of the 35th Signal Regiment waved an emotional goodbye in Birmingham over the weekend.
An hour-long ceremony in Victoria Square marked the end of the long-serving special-ist communications regiment which was disbanded as part of the re-structuring of the Royal Corps of Signals.
Full story on Page 6
EXCLUSIVE
