Ben Foster has revealed that he stole a match-worn Gonzalo Higuain shirt from a former Watford teammate who had placed it at the ‘bottom of the locker’.
In January 2019, Chelsea signed Higuain on a short-term loan agreement from Juventus.
He reconnected with then-Blues manager Maurizio Sarri with the hopes of regaining his scoring touch.
However, the Argentine striker struggled to make an impact at Stamford Bridge, scoring just five Premier League goals during his tenure there.
Foster, on the other hand, wasted no time in snatching Higuain’s match-worn Chelsea shirt from Roberto Pereyra’s locker when he saw it laying about Watford’s dressing room.
Speaking on his podcast, he recalled: “A couple of years ago we left for the end of the season.
“One of the lads cleared his locker out but left the shirt at the bottom of the locker – it was Gonzalo Higuain’s shirt.
“Roberto Pereyra, he left the Higuain shirt just sort of sat in the thing. I’m walking out of the changing room thinking, ‘well he’s left already, he’s gone to Spain’, and I’m thinking, ‘I am taking that then one-hundred per cent’.
“He left a match worn Gonzalo Higuain shirt just chilling in his locker – I was sniffing that right up.”
Asked what he keeps in his locker, Foster replied: “Full of absolute crap mate.
“I’ve got clothes hanging up, I’ve probably got about two or three t-shirts in there and a normal jumper.
“In the middle of it I’ll have all my stuff I’ll have when I’m getting on the bike, so I’ll have my rougher big shorts, my head unit if I am doing a bike session, my towel.
“And at the bottom I’ve just got crap like old pairs of gloves and stuff you would just accumulate.”
