"Owen was on the phone to the manager and his agent while I was in labour. They waited for me to give birth and then he went out on loan pretty much as soon as I was out of hospital."
Owen Dale's loan deal wasn't to a local club, but to Portsmouth - a city more than 200 miles away. His partner, Jessica Beaumont, had never even been there.
And the pair had only just got the keys to a house they had bought. They would end up staying in it for just one night.
"Since living together, we've moved five times in five years," says Jessica.
