Mandy Connelly (Martine Brown*) (Tracy Brabin**) 2003, 2004 Duration: EP: 279, 293*, 332** | SE: 6.19, 7.1*, 8.8** Mandy Connelly, with her husband, raised their three children, son Clyde and two daughters, in Nottingham. Clyde showed great talent as a young boy in football, and at the age of eleven was signed by Harchester's Youth Academy. Progressing into the youth team, Clyde moved out of home and into the club's hostel, where on Boxing Day 2002 an early but not unexpected first team debut came his way, owing to several of Harchester's first team being struck down by Christmas dinner food poisoning. Mandy and Clyde's dad are immensely proud of their son's future prospects, and thanks to Jeff Stein, attend the Harchester v. Birmingham City game in a limoscene when he is unaware that rival PFA rep Bobby Barnes had already snapped Clyde up. At the end of Clyde's first season, he is due to play in the all-important final game against Everton, which will decide whether Harchester stay in the Premiership. Clyde has organised four complimentary tickets for his parents and sisters, only Ryan Naysmith has passed them onto Steve Johnson, a ticket tout who sells them to the Evertonian Boyle family. When Phil Wallis raffles off the club to the winning seat, it just happens to be Donna Gibb with Clyde's comps, and Mandy shows fiery support for her son being the new owner. We unfortunately don't see her reaction when Clyde not only teams up with Donna but marries her in Las Vegas, before dropping his claim altogether to get his playing career back on track. In his third season in the first team squad, Clyde is struggling having to adapt to life in a division lower than he felt he should be, when Harchester are relegated by UEFA. He has also found himself under a tough task-master in new manager Don Barker, whose old school methods are putting Clyde under pressure. Soon Clyde has found himself in the grip of a dark depression, something he keeps from his family and his team mates in Harchester are unequipped to deal with. Clyde takes his own life, leaving everyone shocked, and a devastated Mandy visits the club to try and find some answers. Meeting Clyde's friend Tommy Valentine, he passes on a letter Clyde wrote to the club's physio, Holly Jones in which he confides how he hasn't been the same since Barker arrived, and is scared of what he'll do next. Mandy goes out to the gathered press where she reads the letter aloud and furiously announces that she is calling for the resignation of Don Barker. A lucky break for Don sees him use Ryan's cover story that Clyde was in an affair with Chelsea Wright, and her leaving was the reason for his suicide, which takes the heat off Don. Although guilty of letting her believe a lie, Ryan keeps in touch with Mandy, and visits her for Clyde's birthday a couple of years later, where she was hoping to start up a charity game in Clyde's memory.