Have you ever wondered what happened to Lee Carsley's Danish alter ego Thomas Gravesen?
Odds are, the last you remember of the Danish Carsley is his somewhat surprising move to Real Madrid in January 2005 - perhaps the solitary season he spent with Celtic shortly thereafter.
For four and a half seasons, Thomas Gravesen was an instrumental member of an Everton side that a young and aspiration-fueled David Moyes was working wonders with.
Since his relatively early retirement at 33 years of age however, Gravesen has been exploring a career choice not entirely foreign to certain ex-professionals - poker.
Seemingly worth around £80 million and living in Las Vegas with his model wife, former teammate James McFadden recently shared some insight into the behaviour of a player he simply remembers as being 'nuts'.
Speaking with Si Ferry, McFadden revealed the antics this midfield linchpin would carry out on a daily basis at Everton:
He was mental. He was just a different kind of guy ... somebody that in a group, well, you'd try and avoid him.
Once there was me and Jimmy Lumsden - he's about 60 with white hair. Thomas used to throw him about. Over the physio table, everywhere.
With his 'crazy Danish-Scouse' accent, McFadden remembers a player who was, more often than not, beyond all control.
An apparent fan of pyrotechnics, the former Scottish international vividly recalls the day Gravesen 'brought a paintball gun in':
[He] started just shooting people.
He brought fireworks in one day. The physio's room was at the side of one of the pitches [and] the physio was one of the fittest guys at the club.
He was running with the injured players when Tommy comes out with a big rocket and fires it right at him.
How then, you may well ask, has Gravesen amassed a fortune that even most Premier League footballers would be envious of?
Well, beside his poker ability and some shrewd investments, McFadden puts it down to the Danes' remarkable frugality - or meanness with money if McFadden is to be believed.
Living in Lee Carsely's flat, Gravesen would alleviate as many source of expenditure as possible:
He had no outgoings, no bills.
He had a nice motor, but in the winter he'd sell it and buy a Renault Megane, because that's a 'winter car'. In the summer he wore new Hummel boots, but in the winter he dug out some leather ones and called them his 'winter shoes' - never boots.
A solid basis for such an accumulation of money alright, Gravesen was, at the end of the day, 'brilliant ... at everything', according to McFadden.
