Michail Antonio has been class on the pitch this season - and now he has shown his class off it by driving 135 miles to deliver his West Ham United shirt to a charity.
The No30 winged his way to Birmingham on Saturday evening to present his shirt for Libby Mae’s Little Angels to founders Richard and Charlotte Sharratt, having run out of time to post it before Saturday’s black-tie ball and auction for neonatal units across the region.
After stepping off the pitch at the end of the Hammers' 1-1 Premier League draw with Middlesbrough at London Stadium, Antonio drove to the Midlands on his way to his family home in Manchester, before meeting up with the England squad at St George's Park in Staffordshire.
Antonio, whose kind gesture went viral after being shared on social media by the charity, said: "I knew they wanted it for the auction that night, so I thought I’d drop it off after the game before carrying on to see my family."
The charity has raised more than £135,000 so far after it was set up in 2013 in memory of Libby Mae Sharratt, who died at the age of just two weeks due to a heart defect.
The generous 26-year-old is an ambassador for the Guy Mascolo Football Charity and recently opened the Michail Antonio GMFC football centre in south London. Antonio has a long history of giving back to the community, having made a number of trips to his first club Tooting & Mitcham since joining West Ham in summer 2015.