Dundee’s incredible third goal at Kilmarnock on Saturday would not have happened had scorer Greg Stewart listened to his teammates.
The brilliant 80-yard run from the former Cowdenbeath man in the fourth minute of added-on time was old school and brought back memories of the playground.
It was head down, sprint as fast as you can stuff from Stewart, which thrilled every one of the fans who had travelled all the way down to Rugby Park to cheer the Dark Blues on to a 3-1 win.
It rounded off a great away day for Paul Hartley’s team and the strike also pushed them into the top six of the Premiership, just sneaking ahead of Aberdeen, who play Ross County tonight, on goal difference.
The drama all started up at the other end of the park with just seconds of stoppage-time left in the game.
Dundee were leading 2-1 and hanging on, while Killie were pushing desperately for an equaliser and won a corner.
Kilmarnock keeper Craig Samson had raced up the park to join the attack but was left stranded when the ball was cleared out of the visitors’ box by Dundee sub Kevin Thomson and reached Stewart.
The striker then set off and must have caught sight of Samson’s bright red strip out of the corner of his eye as he neared the halfway line for the goalie had chosen to challenge Stewart rather than race straight back to his goal.
It would turn out to be the wrong decision as Stewart chipped the ball past him and kept going all the way into the Killie box.
With Samson AWOL the net was unguarded and Stewart looked certain to score until home midfielder Jamie Hamill appeared from nowhere to stick out a leg and hook the ball off the line.
The Dundee man kept his cool, however, and pounced on the rebound, curled his shot home to make it fabulous finale in the Ayrshire rain.
However, as fellow frontman David Clarkson revealed, it could have been so different had Stewart taken advice from his colleagues.
“I wasn’t too confident that he would make it all the way up the park so I was screaming at Greg to go down because there were a few challenges on him,” said Clarkson.
“There were also a few boys shouting for him to square it when he got into the box but lucky for him he managed to put it away.
“It was great for Greg. He is a young lad and I didn’t know him before I came here.
“The boys told me he was playing part-time and it’s hard to make the adjustment. You can see, though, that he is willing to listen and learn.
“Getting a couple of goals will be great for his confidence and if he keeps working hard I’ve got no doubt he can become a great player for the club.”