Former Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune hailed the man who sacrificed his own personal goals to help him over the line during the London Marathon.
Tommy Lewis saw a Runner struggling coming into the closing stages on Sunday and followed his instinct to encourage him to the finish.
He wasn't to know that the athlete he was helping out was a top flight title-winning footballer.
The tale of Fortune's rescuer follows the viral video of another exhausted runner being helped across the finish line on The Mall.
Tommy, from Nuneaton in Warwickshire, says he saw Fortune stumbling a mile from the end of the race.
