Mason Mount reveals why he keeps loser medals ahead of Chelsea's Club World Cup final

Mason Mount keeps his growing collection of winners’ medals in a special trophy cabinet at home.

But, unlike some players, he holds onto the runners-up gongs as motivation to remind himself just how “distraught” he feels after losing a final.

Incredibly, the Club World Cup will be the fifth final Mount has reached with Chelsea in the past 12 months after winning the Champions League, European Super Cup while losing the FA Cup and they have got the Carabao Cup to come later this month.

That is some achievement for a player who only turned 23 last month and also suffered the heartbreak of losing the Euros final with England last summer.

But Mount also views the Club World Cup final as a potentially once-in-a-lifetime opportunity which Chelsea must seize with both hands.

Chelsea midfielder Mount said: “I always keep everything. Obviously the winners ones obviously take top place on the mantelpiece, the Champions League is definitely No.1 I think. Hopefully on Saturday this one will be up there.

“But I think you look at the second place ones for memories and experiences, the Euros one, the FA Cups. You look at them and think how distraught you were after the game and they bring back that kind of feeling when you look at it.

“I know a lot of players, as soon as they get a second place medal, they throw it to the side but I kinda like having them. They’re not in the trophy cabinet. They’re in the side. You can use them as motivation.

“You can use them to remember that feeling you had after the game. That you never want that again. Then you look at the trophy cabinet and see the winners’ medals and that feeling of winning and you remember that as well.”

There is also a nice symmetry for Mount as his first final of 2022 will