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There won’t be any seasonal goodwill on the pitch when the teams meet on Boxing Day – but earlier this year, Liverpool came to Leicester’s aid when a young football fan became stranded in Merseyside.

The student, known as LCFCRyan, had travelled up from London to watch Leicester’s 2-2 draw away to Liverpool in January along with his 10-year-old nephew.

But joy soon turned to misery for the pair after a taxi driver took them to the wrong station.

They missed the last train back to the capital, but the £54.20 cost meant they were left with no other means of getting home and had to walk back from the airport to the city centre.

By that point the station was closing and desperate to find an indoor public place to spend the night, the sixth former wrote on the Liverpool FC page of reddit.

And help came swiftly in the form of user OfficePlum. The stranger told them to meet him outside Lime Street Station. They wrote: “Wait near the main entrance to Lime Street (the entrance facing the big TV screen) and I’ll give you the money for a hotel room and a taxi so you can get there safely. I’ll be there in about 15 minutes.”

LCFCRyan said: “Wow thank you so much.”

To which kindhearted OfficePlum replied: “It was the least I could do for you both. Taxi drivers like that give the city a bad name. Have a safe journey home.”

The next day, LCFCRyan thanked their saviour once again adding “I just want to tell you how thankful myself, my nephew and my family are. My sister who is also the mother of my nephew is driving up to Liverpool right now and I don’t think she’ll be letting me take him on another trip soon.

“In all seriousness I don’t know what we would have done if it wasn’t for you and I personally will never forget your generosity.”

The post attracted lots of comments and positive well wishes from other fans with orangecrushin adding: “It worked out well in the end didn’t it? With such good people, they’ll never walk alone to London.”

And the story didn’t end there.

LCFCRyan later added that his sister had pledged twice the cost of the hotel to a local homeless charity and his parents had made a donation to Hillsborough campaigners.

And OfficePlum also was praised with people as far afield as Canada, Toronto, Sydney, China and New York offering to buy him dinner and beer if he is ever in their neck of the woods.

Kick-off at Anfield is at 3pm on Boxing Day.