{"id":541147,"date":"2026-04-20T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541147\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:18:09","slug":"sky-blues-fan-to-rename-newborn-after-goalscorer-bobby-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541147\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Blues fan to rename newborn after goalscorer Bobby Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Maybe it was him climbing in the air to get that goal that did it, but we just decided that it was going to be Bobby,&#8221; Peter said. &#8220;It was really surreal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple plan to complete the formal paperwork to change his name to Bobby Peter James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The baby, already dressed in blue, is set to grow up with a story few can match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll show him that header,&#8221; Peter said. &#8220;It&#8217;s one of those days that you don&#8217;t think&#8217;s real &#8211; a 25-year wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;If Jack [Rudoni] scores the next home game on Tuesday, what am I going to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Maybe it was him climbing in the air to get that goal that did it, but we just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}