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ANTHONY FORDE has opened up in detail a year on from his fiancee Laura’s devastating brain tumour diagnosis that came just two weeks after their son Paddy was born.
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Twelve months on from this devastating time, the 30-year-old explained: “Laura rang me when we got to the hotel and said it is a brain tumour and I’ve got to see the neurosurgeon on Monday.”
Just months before, Forde had discovered his brother Kevin had leukaemia.
Forde added that to try to process the news, he took himself off for a walk when fellow Wrexham star Paul Mullen followed him to see what was wrong. News spread to the manager Phil Parkinson and subsequently the club’s