‘My dad popped out for a pint of milk and never came home’: England fan’s daughter tells how her father walked out on her and her mum to fly to Mexico 86 then finally sent her a Facebook message two decades later saying: ‘I think I’m your father’

Staring into the camera with his arm wrapped around his three-year-old girl, Garry Hardwicke is the picture of a proud young father with his adored daughter. 

But it is one of his final moments with his daughter Nicole before the 27-year-old, gripped by World Cup fever and the lure of cheap beer, sun and Bobby Robson, left her behind and set off to follow England to the Mexico 1986 World Cup. 

Garry told his girlfriend Janet he was nipping out to the shops to get a pint of milk and never returned.

He snuck off with four Wolves fans friends, Gary Allen, Stuart Bates,

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