Father knew best. The night before he was about to face a tricky reunion with his old employers, Gylfi Sigurdsson decided to call home. The advice he would receive was crucial.
'I had a chat with my dad, Sigurd,' the Everton midfielder explains. 'He said, "Whatever you do, don't celebrate". I'd spent three and a half years at Swansea, played my first Premier League game there. I've too much respect. When he said don't celebrate I said, "I know". I was never going to do it.'
Sigurdsson ended up scoring a wonderful goal, a whipping, right-foot strike that will be in the voting for December's best.