Manchester United retiree Gary Neville has spoken of the exact moment he knew it was time to close the curtain on his career.
The 35-year old defender has pinpointed the clash with West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on New Year's Day as the match that signaled the end.
Neville should have been sent off for a tackle on Graham Dorrans but it was before that he knew he was struggling to keep up with the game.
"After that game on New Year's Day, I felt I had reached the end," he said. "In fact, it wasn't after that game, it was during.
"I had been thinking about it for a month or so before that.
"You don't just give up after one bad game. I had enough of them over the last 20 years to know that can happen. But the way I felt at the start of the season, when I started picking up injuries, there is only so many times you can come back.
"Your mentality is such at this club that you are always willing to go again. But sometimes you get a feeling in your mind that you just can't go again and that time had come for me.
"In the previous two seasons I had played 25-30 games and there was always a period where I felt I was contributing.
"Once you have lost that and you know it was not quite right, you don't want to be a passenger."
That match was indeed Neville's last of his career, notching up 400 in the Premier League and finishing on over 600 appearances in all competitions for United.
