Last season, little Noam Faubert did not even want to go to the Boleyn Ground on matchdays.
With his dad Julien Faubert making just 16 appearances as West Ham United struggled towards relegation from the Premier League, Noah did not enjoy his fortnightly trips to east London.
This year, the France international is back on top of his game and both father and son relish every home fixture with smiles on their faces.
Those smiles were wider than ever on Saturday when Julien netted his first goal in 21 months in the 3-2 npower Championship victory over Leicester City.
The No18 put his new-found happiness down to the positive changes brought about by the arrival of manager Sam Allardyce.
"I'm happy," he told West Ham TV. "I am giving my best for West Ham, for the team and for the manager because the manager gave me his confidence so I have to give it back to him and my team-mates as well.
"I want to give 100 per cent and sometimes maybe more because I enjoy playing football. That's why I am happy to be here.
"Last season, as I have said, was the worst of my life and mentally hard for my family and my kids as well because my son was asking 'Why are you not playing?'.
"Now he's happy to come to the matches and so is my wife as well because now I'm playing. On Saturday it was even better because I scored as well. It was a very good afternoon for him and for me as well.
"Now I have opened my account again and I hope I can score more goals.
"Everything is different now. I am just focused on the season and helping West Ham go back to the Premier League.
"I'm really pleased about this because the manager speaks to me a lot and respects me, so I have to give him a lot back.
"I think the manager has come in with everything - he is passionate and he loves football and knows football.
"I lost everything last season but now it is coming back. Sam said we all have to push forward in the same way and we're all working together, so it's perfect."
Faubert's goal, just his second in 97 appearances for the Hammers, climaxed an outstanding move that began with Mark Noble picking out Joey O'Brien's run with a 50-yard diagonal ball over the head of former West Ham left-back Paul Konchesky.
O'Brien got to the byline before pulling the ball back to the unmarked Faubert, who took a touch before drilling a low shot into Kasper Schmeichel's bottom left-hand corner.
"It was a good movement. It was a good ball by Mark Noble and I screamed at Joey because I was all alone 'Give me the ball! Give me the ball!' and he did.
"I shot and I got it on target. It wasn't an amazing goal but it was a good goal for the team and set us up for the rest of the game.
"We are working a lot with Sam and Macca [Neil McDonald] the assistant manager. I need to work on this because I had an opportunity to score a second one and I missed it. That's why I need to work more because in football you are always learning."
Another thing Faubert is learning about is the npower Championship - a league he feels is faster and, in some ways, more challenging than the Premier League.
"I think I'm working more in this league. The tempo in the Championship is harder, because I am working until the end, until the 93rd minute, in every game.
"You have to run, run and run which is different from the Premier League, where the technical quality is higher.
"In the Championship you have to fight every game until the end, which is different, but I'm enjoying it."
Having broken his duck for the season, Faubert is now targeting a third consecutive league victory when Bristol City visit the Boleyn Ground on Tuesday evening - a game for which all Under-16s tickets are priced at just a fiver.
"I hope so, but this will be a different sort of game. They will be a strong team and hard to play against, but we are home and we have to stay strong and take three points."