Antoine Semenyo is bound to score a hatful of crucial goals in a career that has the potential to reach the very top - but none will be more memorable than his first senior league strike for one man in particular.
Before breaking through Bristol City's first-team, the 22-year-old was plying his trade on loan with League Two Newport County during the 2018-19 season.
Semenyo had to wait until October to make his impact in the league, scoring a dramatic 98th-minute winner in a 2-1 victory over Stevenage. The roof ultimately came off Rodney Parade but nobody would have celebrated more than Scotsman Tony Haggerty.
From his room in East Kilbride, just outside of Glasgow, it was a golden goal that helped change the life of the sports reporter and his wife-to-be Caroline who had just pocked £11,123 from a £2 bet to help pay for their dream wedding.
Recalling the story of how Semenyo became the family's cult-hero, Tony tells us: "The day before we had gone to the wedding venue the Crossbasket Castle in Blantyre, it's a stunning venue, a top, top venue. When I saw it I thought 'I want to get married here.'
"My wife-to-be was like 'what you want and what you get are two different things' and then we were told the price and I was like 'oh wow'.
"I woke up the next morning and the ritual was to walk to the William Hill and put a football coupon on as many football fans do. So I did that, it was a £2 bet with six teams, both teams to score and a team to win.
"Low and behold, full-time whistles are being blown down the country, I'm looking at my bet and five teams that I've picked are all coming in. The only one that's not coming in is Newport.
"I've kind of scrunched up my betting slip and thrown it on the floor. I'm sitting looking at Flashscore and praying for a miracle and I was getting upset because I told Caroline if Newport had scored we would have won £11,123.
"The clock's ticking and it goes from 94, 95, 96, 97 and goes into the 98th minute and I'm thinking; 'why has this not finished?'
"Then all of a sudden it just flashed and I kid you not - it said Newport 2-1 Stevenage. I knew it was the last kick of the ball and I literally let out the shriek of my life, I went crazy. I went to my hands and knees, I'm kissing the bet, I'm jumping around. I turned to Caroline and said 'you can book the dream wedding now.' And she was like 'what?' I said Newport have scored."
With a date in the luxury castle locked in the diary, Tony was so grateful for Semenyo he only felt it was right to make his way to Newport to thank him personally with a gift in tow - an engraved bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey.
"I thought I need to find this boy in person and say thank you," he added. "I arranged with Newport if I could go down for a game sometime so I took a week off work to go and watch them against Northampton. They informed Antoine about it and he couldn't believe that we came down.
"I wanted to get him a gift but I wasn't sure if he was a drinker or not. If he's young I thought maybe he'll like Jack Daniels so I got a bottle engraved. It said: 'A memorable goal made a dream a reality,' because that was his first league goal and I thought it encapsulates it."
Tony even offered to invite him to the wedding which took place in December 14 the following year, but by this point, Semenyo was in City's first-team squad and was unable to attend as he sat on the bench in a 2-0 home defeat to Blackburn.
So the couple did the next best thing... they named the top table 'The Antoine' in his honour.
Tony added: "To be fair to Antoine, he was absolutely terrific. He was delighted to see us. He was so down to earth and humble. I was going to invite him to the wedding but he was on the bench for Bristol City on the day we got married but he never got on.
"I said 'if you can't come we'll name the top table after you', so that's what we did. We called it The Antoine. It was one of those great moments in life, in my career and in my life intertwining.
"I know they really do have high hopes for him. I'd love to see him again and ask if he's still got the bottle. I liked to think he kept it because of the engraving on it too. It's something me and wife and hopefully, Antoine will never forget either."
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