Clyde Connelly

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Clyde Connelly (1983-2004) was a character in the fictional series Dream Team, played by Timothy Smith.

Clyde was an attacking midfielder, who came into the Harchester United first team through the reserves and youth academy. He originally broke into the team on Boxing day 2002 against Manchester United, after several members of the first team were suffering from food poisoning.

From then on, Clyde was a permanent fixture in the first team. He was also playing in Harchester's last game of the 2002-2003 season against Everton, where mentally unstable goalkeeper Jamie Parker held the team hostage in the home team changing rooms.

Clyde was hiding in the showers, and was the only team member with access to a mobile phone. He was able to help the police find out what was going on in the changing rooms, and also helped try and get a rescuer into the changing rooms.

[edit] Ownership of Club

At the start of the seventh series, Clyde was a contender to become owner of Harchester. As part of his contract, Clyde received several match tickets to all home games. At the end of the last match of the season, disgruntled owner Phil Wallis decided he would give over ownership of the club to the person sat in seat F61, North Stand. This was one of the seats Clyde had been allocated.

Because of this, he became embroiled in a legal battle with Dean Boyle, Matt Webster and Donna Gibb, all of whom were also contenders to own the club. To further his claim of ownership, Clyde married Donna Boyle in Las Vegas. They later divorced after Donna slept with Clyde's teammate, Curtis Alexander.

Clyde's role in the ownership battle came to an end when he realised that he didn't want to own the club, he just wanted to play for them.

[edit] Decline and Suicide

When Don Barker became Harchester manager, he immediately took a dislike to arrogant and cock-sure Clyde, and played him out of position in several games.

Clyde suffered from a lack of form, which led to further bullying from his team-mates. He also became depressed when Barker took the team to a boot camp to improve their hardiness.

As a result of all of these actions, Clyde felt as if there was no one he could confide in, and there was nothing to live for. After playing brilliantly against PSG in The Champions League, Clyde took his own life by jumping of the Dragon's Lair, Harchester's stadium.