Sitting in the back of a cab on his way to watch his first England game, little Kairo Walker is buzzing with excitement. 'Where are we going, Kairo?' asks his mother Lauryn Goodman .
Lauren Goodman sits with son Kairo in the Waldstadion, Frankfurt for England's second round group C match against Denmark Kairo, of course, is oblivious to all this. And unlike the rest of the country, he wasn't remotely bothered about the 1-1 draw against Denmark on Thursday: he just wanted to see his daddy. It was the first time he'd ever seen him play in the flesh.
And it was for that reason that Lauryn was determined to take Kairo to Frankfurt's Deutsche Bank stadium, where I joined them for a day of drama and high emotions. 'There was no way I wasn't going to take Kairo to the Euros,' says Lauryn. 'There was no way I was not going to uphold the promise that Kyle made to his son. This could have been his last chance so I wanted it to be something that Kairo could remember for ever.
Annie threw Kyle out of their family home in Prestbury, Cheshire, and he moved into in a nearby apartment. However, after Annie gave birth to a fourth son in April, they have begun to mend their marriage, reportedly on the condition that Kyle cut off all contact with Lauryn and their children. Instead Lauryn made her own way, flying commercial, which meant Kairo was up in the early hours to get to the airport.
Despite their names being inexorably linked in headlines, the two women have rarely been in such close physical proximity. While there was an entire football pitch between them — and several rows of seating as they watched from opposite stands — there was a possibility they could have met. 'I was there for Kairo, no one else, and if anyone has an issue with it, that's their problem, not mine.'
Kairo has enough knowledge of the game to recognise that it was Kyle who assisted Harry Kane's goal in the 18th minute, with Lauryn saying: 'It was so amazing that he could see that, Kairo knows so much about football.' Perhaps the proudest moment for Lauryn came when one fan noticed Kairo after the match and told him: 'Your Daddy played really well today.' 'It made me happy,' she says. 'It was a moment when people were including him.'
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