Zach Hemming says girlfriend is his No 1 fan as he thanks her for Kilmarnock success

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Zach Hemming may have been Kilmarnock’s No 1 all season, but he says his No 1 fan was his girlfriend. The on-loan Middlesbrough goalkeeper heaped praise on his other half Caitlin and reckons her support was the reason he had such an impressive season at Rugby Park.Caitlin travelled up and down Scotland watching her man play all season, missing just three games due to giving birth to their second child Louie last month.

But before that she’d take their two-year-old Riven to watch dad Zach play every week, and the full family, including new-born Louie watched Killie win the league against Arbroath.

Speaking exclusively to the Kilmarnock Standard, proud Hemming said: “She is more of a Killie fan than she is my missus! “It’s good that she’s like that though, knowing she’s settled was ideal for me, if she wasn’t happy then it would be playing on my mind all the time.“I think for her to have settled as well as she did it made things better.”Caitlin gave birth to Louie just a couple of days before Killie were due to play their crucial clash in Inverness last month, but she made him head to the Highlands to play rather than stay with her.Hemming said: “She forced me back playing!

I offered to stay around and be there, but she told me to go play and she watched.“She then brought the little one up to watch the Arbroath game, the full family was there so I loved having that support.“She’s my biggest supporter to be honest, before she gave birth she didn’t miss a game.“She travelled to Inverness, Arbroath, I have to give her so much credit and respect for coming to watch me when she could easily be watching it on the telly.“I don’t say it enough, but she was a big part of this as well by making me happy off the pitch which made