The King of Kings, like the rest of the Celtic team back in the autumn of 2002, travelled to take on the English outfit motivated all that bit more after the former Rangers boss eluded to his players that his side were superior to the hoops despite Celtic winning 1-0 in a UEFA Cup first leg clash at Celtic Park.

Henrik himself scored the winning goal in a game that Martin O’Neill’s side looked far from convincing against a decent Blackburn side, but as Henrik explained, it was only half time with a trip down south to Ewood Park still to be negotiated.

That didn’t stop Souness & Co claiming it was a case of ‘men against boys’ with Blackburn reckoning that they were far superior than Martin O’Neill’s Celtic side.

Souness’s words came via Rovers skipper Gary Flitcroft in a post match interview, and it naturally made the headlines, and in doing so spurred on Henrik and his teammates for the return leg a fortnight later.

Celtic would comfortably beat the English side 2-0 to advance 3-0 on aggregate as they continued their UEFA Cup adventure, with Henrik himself opening the scoring as he and his teammates taught arrogant Souness and his team a lesson.

Chris Sutton added the second against his old club, and afterwards the usually laid back Henrik couldn’t help but have a pop at Souness. He said: “It should teach them a lesson – never talk until the game is finished.”

“I heard something about ‘men against boys,’ and I wasn’t too pleased about that one because I think we gave them a good game at Celtic and then completely destroyed them down there.”

Asked by Open Goal host Si Ferry why he had been so outspoken on that occasion, Larsson explained: “Because we beat them. Then you can say those things. Not at half-time, you can’t say it.”

“I heard something about ‘men against boys,’ and I wasn’t too pleased about that one because I think we gave them a good game at Celtic and then completely destroyed them down there.”