Flashback 7 years to 2012 and Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount was 14 years old, watching his team beat Bayern Munich in the Champions League Final jumping around in his living room with his family.
In fact, the way he celebrated that absolute triumph and the biggest achievement of Chelsea Football Club to date, would have been a lot the same as many supporters that night.
Because even though Mount had been a Chelsea Youth player since the age of 8, at this point he would have felt nothing more than a regular fan like me or you.
Fast forward 7 years and he is now just hours away from walking on to that Stamford Bridge pitch, hearing the Champions League music play, and facing the same team that he watched his beloved Chelsea beat all those years ago.
What a feeling that will be for the 21-year old, and he has been talking about it to the Chelsea Wesbite.
He said:
“It’s a massive feeling, to be able to be involved is brilliant.
“For us younger boys, for us to realise we actually do need to step up every game and that pressure is always on now. It helps us to perform, I feel. It makes us stronger together as a team. So, it’s a brilliant experience and we’re learning all the time.
“When you hear the Champions League anthem you kind of pinch yourself. I remember speaking to Tammy about it and saying when the song is on it’s just an unreal feeling. It’s kind of overwhelming to be involved and to hear that song that many legends in the past have been able to stand there and listen to. It’s obviously a massive moment.
“For the final [2012] I was at home, with my family, we were all watching it. I remember it very clearly. We were all jumping around in the front room celebrating. And obviously how the game went, it was unbelievable to watch and it spurred you on to want to be involved in a game like that in the future.
“It’s quite surreal, how in the past it’s happened and now we’re playing against Bayern and a legend’s the manager. It’s crazy how everything’s happened, but we’re very, very confident going into the game that we can win.
“We need to take that confidence that we had at Ajax away and the big performances that we’ve pulled off this season, and hopefully we can do it now.”
