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18th Mar 2017

PIC: Nobody thinks Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s mother looks old enough to be his mother

How is she his mam?

Nooruddean Choudry

First things first – this is a helpful reminder.

Mother’s Day is just around the corner on Sunday March 26, so you’ve got around a week to plan something, or at the very least organise some flowers or a gift before then. We’ve only remembered thanks to Henrikh Mkhitaryan, so we thank him for another trademark assist.

The Manchester United playmaker seems like a thoroughly decent chap off the pitch as well as a magician on it, and shared a snap with his own mam, Marina Taschyan, out on a meal at a fancy restaurant to celebrate her birthday. What a kind and thoughtful son he is.

Not that that was the first reaction of most of his followers. They were more interested and shocked at how young Ms Taschyan, who works for the Armenian FA, was looking. Seeing as Mkhitaryan is approaching 30 himself, no one could work out how she could look so incredibly youthful…

https://twitter.com/Ataa_Okoe/status/843001702974443520

https://twitter.com/SarcyFringehead/status/843006816950910976

https://twitter.com/uzzyhaz/status/843002703764774912

https://twitter.com/Omardebate/status/843007687814275072

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