Watch: brilliant moment Fulham star surprises tearful disabled football fan on TV

Watch the incredible moment that Fulham defender Tim Ream surprised disabled footy fan Rhys Porter live on TV.

Rhys - who suffers from cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair - had been having a tough time, after he was trolled when posting videos of himself playing football on social media.

And the special moment with the Fulham star brought him to tears.

Awful trolls sent horrible messages saying: “Has someone shot you in the kneecaps?”

Brave Rhys, 13, decided to hit back by raising £7,000 for charity with a special save challenge.

And when he was being interviewed on BBC Breakfast about his challenge, the Fulham defender decided to surprise him.

While Naga Munchetty asked Rhys about Ream, the star snuck up behind him.

Naga said: “I know that there’s Tim Ream, the Fulham defender, is he quite good?”

Rhys replied: “Yeah, he wins a lot of headers.”

Naga continued: “What would you say to him if you were to see him now, would you give him a bit of advice about improving the game and contributing to the team?”

Rhys responded: “I would say that he’s a great defender.”

Then as the player came to Rhys’ side Naga asked him how Ream could improve.

Rhys looked at the star smiling, and said: “I don’t think he needs to improve.”

The ace put his hand on Rhys’ shoulder and said: “You can say it, you can say it.

“You don’t think I can improve? You can always improve.”

Naga said: “We thought it would be lovely to introduce you both.

“Tim you’ve tweeted about what Rhys has been doing, and you’ve been blown away by him saying enough and I’m going to call this out.”

Rhys was too overcome by the encounter and this point, and began to cry with emotion.

Tim said: “I showed my family his video, and I just think people see footballers as role models and inspirations and for me what he’s doing is more of an inspiration than anything any of us could ever do.”

Rhys, from Uxbridge, has had a tough time after his online abuse.

He received hundreds of nasty comments by online trolls after posting a TikTok video of himself saving a goal.

The footage showed Rhys as a goalkeeper for Feltham Bees, a disability sports club associated with Brentford FC.

The teenager was born prematurely and has quadriplegic cerebral palsy. He later also developed epilepsy years.

Awful trolls sent horrible messages saying: “Has someone shot you in the kneecaps?”

“He had only recently started to accept his disability and posted a TikTok video of himself saving a goal,” Rhys’ mother, Kelly Porter told LondonWorld

“At the time he posted it he only had eight or nine followers, but by the following morning he had over 100,000 and the video had been viewed and shared over 100,000 times.”

“Me and my husband were shocked to see hundreds of nasty comments underneath the video.

“People were writing hurtful comments such as: ‘You are disabled, you shouldn’t be doing sports.”

Kelly, 41, said the comments “infuriated” her and her husband so they decided to address the issue as a family.

Rhys has responded to his trolls by taking part in the disability charity Scope’s Make it Count challenge, and made 20 saves a day during the Paralympics.

“He has gotten the whole family involved, including his Nan and cousins across the country and we have created a Whatsapp group called #rhysfamilychallenge,” Kelly explained.

The tyro completed his challenge, and raised more than £7,000.