HARROGATE Railway midfielder Jimmy Gore has finally become a dad - after 15 days of extra time.
The 26-year-old's wife, Kate - who was due to give birth on December 2, six days before Railway's historic FA Cup tie against Second Division Bristol City - delivered a bouncing baby boy in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
As reported by the Evening Press, Jimmy, from Severus Avenue, York, could have faced an agonising decision of either playing in the biggest match of his life or attending the birth of his child.
But little Charlie held out for dad to play - and indeed be named the Evening Press man of the match - in the televised 3-1 second-round defeat, for which the battling non-Leaguers earned rave reviews.
Charlie was born at York District Hospital and both mother and son are said to be doing fine.
Updated: 11:24 Friday, December 20, 2002
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