Christmas has always been about family and tradition rather than presents for Petr Cech, so when he was younger he would only ask for two gifts.
The first of those was understandably a football, but the 34-year-old was also a keen ice hockey player in his youth and says he would spend the winter months playing with his friends at his local ice rink.
“Every Christmas was the same because I wanted a ball and an ice hockey stick,” he told Arsenal.com. “The ice hockey stick never lasted a full year, so before Christmas you always needed a new one after your old one broke.