Anyone hear about Helder???

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Anyone hear about Helder???

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A mate told me yesterday that our former player Glenn Helder has been sent to a funny farm :shock: :shock:
Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, why?

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Wikepedia isnt the best reference point but scroll down to personal life on link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Helder

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Post by hanny73 »

Apparently there was an artical in one of the papers over the weekend about it, not sure which one?

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Yep, I read about it on Saturday. I was gonna post it but then... :lol:

Ex-ARSENAL star Glenn Helder has been sent to a psychiatric hospital.

The Dutch winger was jailed last year for illegal gun possession, threatening his ex-girlfriend and assaulting her current partner.

Former Holland star Helder, 39, has been committed to the De Waag institution in Haarlem.

According to Dutch reports, he has been diagnosed with "narcissistic personality disorder with hints of borderline psychosis".

Helder previously tried to commit suicide after becoming addicted to gambling.

Helder, George Graham's last signing as Arsenal manager when he moved from Vitesse Arnhem for £2.5m in 1995, made 39 Premiership appearances and scored

Helder, George Graham's last signing as Arsenal manager when he moved from Vitesse Arnhem for £2.5m in 1995, made 39 Premiership appearances and scored one goal in his time at Highbury.
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Does anyone remember his debut - it was fantastic, unfortunately the other 38 appearences weren't!

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Yeah remember the gambling stories after he left apparently he owed money to a bunch of dutch gansters. It all went down hill for him the moment he got rid of the lionel richie hair cut.

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i remember seeing him on 1 of the poker channels :roll: :wink:

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hanny73 wrote:Does anyone remember his debut - it was fantastic, unfortunately the other 38 appearences weren't!
Yeah, he destroyed Stuart Pearce and we all thought George had left us a leaving present!

To be fair, I didn't think he was as bad as many do. He had more than a few good games. Also, his performance on his debut, and the following Saturday at Palace (he set up 3 goals for Kiwomya in those games) kept us up that season. He also played a stormer with Dennis and Wrighty in a 3-0 up at Leeds, and set up Dennis' first Arsenal goal.

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I read it on BBC text that he was sent to a funny farm alright also a being told that Helder beat the sh**t out of his girlfriend.

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Post by DutchMaestro »

Ouch.. Tough Times!

I always thought he was better than he turned out to be - he was also the winger for Holland for quite a while too, which is no mean feat (at least not back in the 90's, when they had a great team and should have won France 98).

As for now, words like ''creek'' and ''paddle'' come to mind...

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Good luck Glenn, lets hope that you can sort out the demons in your head. Look on the upside, prescribed drugs and fucking good ones to boot..............Whooaaaa loooook aaaaaat thaaaattt coooooool dooooooor handle :lol: Drugs can be good, it's only those that aren't on them that disagree 8)

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Post by I Hate Hleb »

REALITY IS AN ILLUSION CAUSED BY THE LACK OF DRUGS!! 8) :lol: :wink:

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Drugs are not the answer.......



''Drugs'' is the quesion...........



''Yes'' is the answer! :lol:

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I'm really, really against "recreational" drugs.
Even Cannabis is causing untold damage. Loads of people who took Cannabis in their teens are now living with uncurable mental health problems. They will be on medication until they die. Their lives have been ruined.

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