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Chelsea fan Jake Nickless recalled playing a prank on Liverpool's Champions League-winning captain, Steven Gerrard, in February 2006.

Speaking to the BBC Radio 5 Live's Scott Miles and Chris Stark on Saturday, Nickless reminisced about the amusing moment he offered to shake Gerrard's hand as a youngster, only to retract it and and blow a raspberry instead - prompting Gerrard to grin.

Fourteen years on from the event, the video of the prank has gone viral again thanks to being shared by the ChelseaTwitter account.

However, there is no bad blood between Nickless and Gerrard - despite Chelsea going on to win the match 2-0 - and the Rangers boss wrote about the incident in his auto-biograpy.

(Image: scott_mills/Twitter)

Nickless told the radio show: "My mum bought the book and there's a picture in there of me doing it.

"I sent a copy to him to get it signed, and he signed it for me."

The 19-year-old now plays for North Greenford United in the South Midlands League and revealed that some of his friends did not realise it was him the video until recently.

"My friends keep saying we need to be reunited," said Nickless.

(Image: Jake Nickless / Instagram)

"The video goes viral every other year. This year, one of my friends just kept tagging people, and it's the first year I've got any credit for it.

"Half of my friends never knew it was me. I never really spoke about it until the past week."

Earlier this week, Nickless revealed that the attention at the time led to him being taken home from school early, and about how his father encouraged him to pull off the prank.

"The week before, my dad found out that I was going to be mascot - he got it for me as a birthday present - and said you have to stand out," he told Sportbible.

(Image: scott_mills/Twitter)

"First of all they died my hair blue. It wasn't my idea. Then that thing with the handshake was his plan.

"I said: 'No, I'm not doing it. I'm too shy.' When I saw him [Gerrard] in the tunnel, it was just instinct. I just shouted his name. All my friends take the mick as I sounded so young.

"He wasn't embarrassed. He was just surprised because he probably thought I was going to shake his hand.

"My dad actually didn't think I was going to do it. He said: 'If you do it, we'll go out the day after and buy you five PlayStation 2 games.' And I got the games."