1977 saw him spend a loan spell in the US with the Connecticut Bicentennials, an experience he enjoyed so much that he moved permanently to the New England Tea Men a year later.
He managed Cambridge until January 1990, stabilising a club that was at rock bottom and turning them slowly into promotion candidates.
[1] In 2006, Turner teamed up with ex-Peterborough player Lee Power, who was then chairman of Cambridge United, to help out in a temporary coaching role at the club.
[1] But soon afterwards he became ill with what was later diagnosed as frontal lobe dementia, and by April 2014 he was living in a nursing home.
In the last five years of his life, Turner was reportedly unable to walk, talk or eat solid foods.