WYCOMBE'S FA CUP hero Steve Brown proved he is a winner off the pitch as well as on it when he announced he will be giving the receipts of his new-found fame to the hospital which treated his son.

Brownie has become a national institutution since he was sent off in tears at Leicester for taking his shirt off to celebrate Wycombe's quarter final injury-time winner on the day that he carried his 15-month old son Maxwell onto the field as club mascot.

The toddler was born without a proper connection between his stomach and throat and has needed more than 20 operations.

Millions watched on TV as Brown carried his son onto the pitch before the match and then felt for him as he was sent off minutes from the end of Wanderers' dramatic 2-1 victory over the Premiership side.

His story has been splashed all across the front and back pages and media companies have been queuing up to buy his story.

But the big-hearted star said he didn't want their money and told them to give it to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford where Maxwell was treated instead.

Brown said: "I don't want any money out of it personally because I wasn't expecting any of it but if it can go the people who have helped Maxwell then I'm happy because they are the one's that deserve it.

"They save lives. All I've done is get sent off in a football match and it has become national news."

Brown admits he has been stunned by the reaction.

He said: "It's gone absolutely crazy. The whole nation has gone on it. I'm a bit embarassed to get all this publicity for being sent off.

"I'm amazed how big the story has become. There are a lot worse things going on in the world than me being sent off."