Eric Cantona, Christian Eriksen and David Beckham were some of the names that sprung to mind as Thomas Frank looked ahead to Ivan Toney's long-awaited Brentford comeback.
Following his eight-month ban for breaching FA betting rules Toney will finally return against Nottingham Forest today.
He will be greeted like a hero and treated like one too with the honour of leading Brentford out as captain in the absence of Christian Norgaard, a sense of injustice fuelling him, an acceptance that things could have been different but apologetic?