Andre Gray begins life as a £30million-rated Premier League striker next Saturday, just 28 months since his last appearance in non-League football for Luton at Hyde United's Ewen Fields ground.
For that spectacular rise through the leagues to stepping out against Swansea, Liverpool and Chelsea in the next three blockbuster Saturdays, Gray is thankful for good guidance and decision-making. Not least his own choice to reject the gang culture that threatened to send his life in a very different direction.
That call, Gray admits, made him the man he now is. He fully concentrated on a career scoring goals, so prolifically in the Conference Premier.