'SWEETEST SOUL'
Lauryn Goodman reveals son Kairo’s heartbreaking reaction to dad Kyle Walker’s Euros final heartache as Three Lions lose
Little Kairo wanted to call his dad after the England loss
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LAURYN Goodman has revealed her son Kairo's heartbreaking reaction to dad Kyle Walker's Euros final heartache.
The 33-year-old mum said her little tot was "gutted" when England were knocked out by Spain last night, and was desperate to call his dad.
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The Three Lions made it to their second consecutive European final but were beaten again, this time by a late strike from Mikel Oyarzabal.
On his mum's Instagram Stories, Kairo was heard saying he "didn't like this" as Lauryn told him that England had lost.
The four-year-old said: "I don't want them to win, I don't want Spain to have won. That's not kind... can't I call my dad?"
Celebs Go Dating star Lauryn then responded: "Oh bub" and captioned the video: "Little man is gutted."
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The model said: "Worrying about the players being sad bless him. He's got the sweetest soul."
Man City defender Walker, 34, also fathered an eight-month-old daughter - whose name has not been revealed - with Lauryn, despite being married to Annie Kilner.
Walker and Annie share sons Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, Reign, five, and a two-month-old son Rezon.
Before the match, Lauryn shared a photo of Kairo playing football in the living room.
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She captioned the post: "Good luck tonight England. @kairowalker brought his trophy home, lets hope England can too!"
She flew out to Germany earlier in the tournament to watch the Three Lions live.
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A source previously told : "Kairo is unaware of the situation currently and is fully supportive of his father and loves him dearly. Kairo loves showing his sister who their daddy is.
"Kairo often wins football trophies and won one recently.
"He is hoping his dad can win the trophy at the final tonight.
"Kairo naturally has his dad's sporting abilities and follows his every achievement with his little girl starting to kick a football around."
Annie also flew to Germany in a private jet to watch England play Switzerland, and was snapped sitting with the other Three Lions WAGs.
She announced in January her marriage to Walker was over at the same time it was revealed she was six months pregnant.
This felt like our time... but keep Gareth's culture and we can win it in 2026 instead, writes Jack Wilshere
IT will take a while for me and every England fan to get over this, writes Jack Wilshere.
To come so close to winning that trophy, only to be beaten in a second Euros final in a row, is a huge disappointment.
Especially when it really felt like this was our time.
It seemed that everything was coming together for us to end the long wait for a major title.
But Spain deserved it. They were the better team in the final and the best team of the tournament.
We will all — supporters, players, coaches, the FA — have to move on and go again.
Because English football is still in a good position.
Gareth Southgate has taken us to two finals, a semi-final and a quarter-final in four tournaments. We have never produced a run like that before.
The challenge now is to maintain this level of competitiveness and make England even better.
Southgate and his staff have done a fantastic job in changing the whole environment and narrative around the national team.
Whether Gareth carries on or not, the wider culture he has put in place must be preserved.
This tournament was the biggest test of that culture the team had to go through.
They overcame the problems and went all the way, only to fall at the final hurdle.
But there is every reason to believe we can challenge at the World Cup in 2026 and beyond.
We’ve got a really good group of players, many of them young, who can go on playing and performing for England for years.
Jude Bellingham, Kobbie Mainoo, Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden and Cole Palmer — to name just five — have plenty more tournaments in them.
This tournament will also be an inspiration for the next generations of players. Unfortunately there isn’t the trophy lift to take that to a completely different level.
But England have delivered moments in Germany that will be replayed forever.
The Bellingham overhead kick and Ollie Watkins’ semi-final winner will be recreated in playgrounds and cages up and down the country.
What I would like to see now is England continuing to develop, to become a team that can consistently dominate opponents and can give a real identity to English football.
We now have players who are comfortable on the ball and technically very good.
The biggest disappointment of the tournament was that we didn’t see that as often as we would have liked. That leaves us with a ‘what if?’ feeling.
England must not lose that old-school mentality of finding a way to win even when you’re not playing well — that never-say-die spirit which got us through this Euros more than once.
But the next step is to allow other qualities to shine through, to give the players that our system is creating the platform to show everything they can do.
The job for me and for other coaches is to keep producing players that are comfortable on the ball and understand how to perform under pressure at a high level.
English football is in a good place but we need to keep going. Then we will finally get over the line.
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She said on social media at the time: "I am posting this in response to growing recent media enquiries about my marriage to Kyle and in an effort to protect my family against the intensity of the media spotlight.
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"Sadly, after many years of marriage and three wonderful children together, I have decided to take some time away from Kyle.
"I do not wish to comment on the position any further. For now, I ask that the privacy of myself and our three young children is respected during this difficult time."
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