James Maddison came back with a bang. Although, on this occasion, not one initiated entirely by his flair and imagination on the ball at the heart of a vibrant yet vulnerable Tottenham team.
It was more to do with his presence and personality. His return from injury served to energise the Spurs crowd against Brentford on Wednesday, a night when he became embroiled in a bizarre dispute with Neal Maupay about darts memes, which spilled on to social media and rumbled into the night.
Then he picked up a microphone and charmed the armchair audience with one of those disarmingly candid post-match TV interviews at which he excels.