The goalkeeper from the viral “well done, he’s 13” clip with Michael Owen is unrecognisable in a reunion snap with Neville Southall.
Teenage shot stopper Jamie Hutchinson had the task of denying the efforts of Owen for his Michael Owen Soccer Skills show back in 1999 and was coached by Southall during filming. With Owen celebrating after each of his shots flew past Hutchinson into the net, Southall quipped the now infamous line, which went on to go viral on social media more than a decade later.
Hutchinson and Southall have now crossed paths again 23 years on, with the latter tweeting a photo of the pair on Thursday afternoon.
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In the image, Hutchinson can be seen wearing a goalkeeper shirt with the same orange and black design as the one he sported in the original clip.
Meanwhile, he has swapped his short ginger hair for a bald scalp, leaving him unrecognisable from two decades ago.
Owen was appearing in the video fresh off the back of his breakout performances at the 1998 World Cup and consecutive Premier League golden boot wins. He would also go on to win the Ballon d’Or in 2001.
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As for Hutchinson, at the time of filming he had been keeping goal for Brazilian Soccer School, an academy project which produced former England defender Micah Richards.
He admitted years later that it “wasn’t ideal” to go up against Owen after the footage of Southall’s response went viral on social media.
Speaking in 2016, via talkSPORT, he explained: “Being the goalkeeper on a programme headlined by a striker wasn’t exactly ideal for me.
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“It was made clear that it wouldn’t make good filming if the goalkeeper was saving all the shots taken by the other kids after they had been coached by Michael.”
He has even said that he would be happy to star in a similar video again, adding in 2017: “I would 100% love to film it again, with a pair of gloves that actually fit and me being able to touch the crossbar. Hopefully there’d be a better outcome…”
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