OLD Trafford’s score-board flashed up the result the whole country had been waiting for: Ken 1 Mike 0. Coronation Street’s love triangle had ended — with Deirdre Barlow dumping lover Mike Baldwin and staying with husband Ken.
The 56,000-crowd watching Manchester United play Arsenal cheered. The storyline had gripped the nation, including the Queen, for weeks in 1983, with 21million viewers tuning in for the climax.
Actor Johnny Briggs, who played the soap’s womanising factory boss Mike Baldwin for 30 years, died yesterday, age 85, at his home in Portishead, Somerset.
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