She’s collected every AFL game her son has ever played and even has hundreds of VHS tapes from his junior days, including his first mini-league game.

Thousands of newspaper clippings are piled on top of each other, waiting to find their home in the final scrapbook.

Jan Pavlich is as proud as a mother can be of her son.

Photos of Matthew adorn the walls in the well-kept house in Kidman Park where he grew up and began a storied football journey.

His bedroom remains just as he’d left it when he departed Adelaide bound for Fremantle, including a photo of Tony Modra in Adelaide Crows’ colours which is pinned proudly above his bedhead.

Jan’s documenting began when the now Fremantle Dockers’ legend was just a small child.

She pulled out a newspaper excerpt of the result of Matthew’s first game in primary school, and she hasn’t stopped since.

Her ultimate goal is to create a scrapbook and hand it over to her son when his career is over.

“I might be trying to be a little bit too ambitious, but it’s all here, so it’s just a matter of putting it all together,” she said.

Mothers’ Day is coming up on Sunday, and Jan said she couldn’t have wished for a better son.

“He’s beautiful,” she said.

“He’s got such a lovely way, he’s just so caring and he’s always put his family before anything else.

"And he's never forgotten a Mothers' Day or a birthday, or even his parents' anniversary. Not once."