Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson has carried the wise words of Nottingham Forest assistant boss Roy Keane with him for over a decade, and says he will take them into Saturday's Champions League final.
The 28-year-old played under Keane at boyhood club Sunderland back in 2009 in his breakthrough season of Premier League football.
And now he is preparing to play in club football's biggest game for the second consecutive season, as Jurgen Klopp's side face Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid.
But as he takes to the field at Atletico Madrid's Estadio Metropolitano he will abide by Keane's decade old advice, the very same advice that he stuck by after Liverpool's remarkable Anfield turnaround against Barcelona.
Henderson told the Mirror that he did not ask for Lionel Messi's shirt that night, never has and never will, in the spirit of the former Manchester United hard-man.
"Did I think about asking for his shirt? No. I’ve never done it," he said.
"Keane told me when I was at Sunderland that if you ask for someone’s shirt, it looks like you are in awe of them.
"As it turned out, I came home with Luis Suarez’s shirt. Luis is a good lad and he gave me it as a gesture as we had played together for Liverpool. I don’t know what he’s done with mine."
