Jordan Archer can remember saving shots in training from Harry Kane when they were ‘both chubby kids’ at Sunday League Ridgeway Rovers.
A few years later, Millwall’s goalkeeper, now a teenager, spent many an hour at Tottenham’s academy helping the Spurs striker hone the finishing technique that has made him one of the most revered forward’s in the game.
Their paths have criss-crossed several times during the past 12 years and are converging once more to create an intriguing sub-plot to Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final.
If any goalkeeper has that instinctive split-second reaction to stop Kane it is Archer; none other are likely to have had so much exposure to his methods and given the England forward has eight goals in his last four games, Archer is going to need it.