Below a detailed tattoo of Spiderman, Everton’s Dwight McNeil has a lengthy quotation from the late rapper Juice Wrld inked onto his right forearm.
‘999 represents... whatever struggle you’re going through and turning it into something positive to push yourself forward.’
It’s a philosophy that helped McNeil recover from being rejected by Manchester United aged 14 to build a career with Burnley and then kept him strong through an 18-month goal drought ended by his winner for Everton at Southampton last weekend.
In America, 999 denotes the opposite of 666, the mark of the beast.