A BABY has made history after becoming the youngest trust member of Runcorn Linnets Football Club.

Tiny Jack Thomas Bignall was signed up by proud dad Ste at just one day old.

Jack is a second child for Ste and wife Claire and was born two weeks early, weighing in at Whiston Hospital on Friday, June 23, at 8lb 12oz.

Ste, who runs the Linnets Updates unofficial Twitter feed and Linnets Podcast and writes first team match reports for the website and newspapers, said: “I was wearing my 10th anniversary third kit when Jack was born.

“So within minutes of being in the world he was pressed up against a Linnets kit.

“His mum Claire has had a yellow and green hooped cardigan and bobble hat knitted for him, ready for his first game.”

Just like his three-year-old big sister Annie, who came to her first game at six weeks old, Jack will be continuing the Bignall family's long affiliation with the Linnets.

It now spans five generations and includes Runcorn AFC's first trainer, a club secretary (Ste's late dad Dave), match day stewards, ball boys, a trust board member (Ste's brother Mike) and a junior Linnets player in Mike's son Sam.

Dave Bettley, trust secretary at the Linnets, said: “Jack is certainly the youngest trust member I have registered and I very much doubt we have had anyone younger since we relaunched as the fans-owned club 11 years ago.

“We would like to congratulate Ste, Claire and Annie on their very happy news while also giving baby Jack a special welcome and looking forward to him making his debut at The Millbank Linnets Stadium.

“We hope he grows up to be as staunch a supporter of the club like the rest of his family.

"He certainly has every chance and probably no option."