With a change of hairdo has come a change of luck, but Stevie May has vowed that the scissors will now stay in the drawer.
The St Johnstone striker had his famous locks trimmed ahead of Wednesday night’s 1-0 win over Dundee United at Tannadice.
In a kind of reverse Samson scenario, May seemed to find new powers that enabled him to bamboozle United keeper Rado Cierzniak with a shot that the Pole fumbled into the net for the only goal of the game.
It brought to an end a five-game scoring drought for the Scotland under-21 international, which was hardly a crisis but still a source of frustration for the frontman.
So, given the magic worked by his barber, will May be going for the full skinhead-look should Saints get into the Premiership top six and the final of the William Hill Scottish Cup?
His reply was a terse: “There is no chance of that.”
He added: “It was three years ago that I last got it cut. It was an off-the-cuff decision and I just fancied a little change.
“There was nothing much to it. I just looked in the mirror and thought I would go for it.
“So I had someone in to do it. It has been cut a good bit but it’s still long.”
As for his goal, there were vicious rumours sweeping Saints’ training ground spread, it has to be said, mainly by May’s team-mates that it was an own goal by Cierzniak.
He was having none of it though.
“It was a bit fortunate, you know, but it was on target as far as I am concerned,” he said.
“A few of our guys were saying they had turned away before it even reached the goal because they didn’t think it was going in. So I guess there was a bit of luck involved, but I think I was maybe due a bit.
“I shoot more than most maybe too much at times but it paid off this time. It was a goal that got us a massive three points.”
As for his spell without a goal, he added: “I heard people talking about it, but I wasn’t getting down about it. I was always going to score a goal eventually. It wasn’t going to last forever.
“It did go on a little bit longer than I would have liked but, when you consider the bigger picture, it wasn’t a problem.
“I had maybe set the bar a bit high and now I hope I can get goals regularly between now and the end of the season.”