Mohammed Kudus plonked down his little wooden stool, took a seat next to Crysencio Summerville, and soaked in the adulation.
The winger had just nodded in West Ham’s equaliser against Brighton, his third goal of the season, to make it three unbeaten for Julen Lopetegui’s side.
Kudus usually celebrates by sitting on the advertising hoardings or a ball boy’s plastic seat but at the London Stadium he unveiled a wooden stool in the shape of an elephant, a nod to his Ghanaian culture.
‘Where I come from, the chiefs and the kings, they sit on stools,’ said Kudus.