His last BBC FA Cup Final Anchoring role was preceded by a storm about sharing an Instagram post about Zionism, so maybe you could say that Gary Lineker did not stop.
His recent performance on ITV's The Assembly, where he is grilled by a group of autistic and neurodivergente interviewers, offers a better, more nuanced feeling from him. It was difficult not to be moved by part of what he said.
The live broadcast of the moment of Crystal Palace in the sun certainly drilled the finer side of Lineker.
We are at the end of a season in which shouting and noise occur more often than ever, but he was a modest perspective.
His experience at the highest level meant that he too also had views about questions he asked Wayne Rooney, about demanding to take fines, exploit the wings and force your manager.
As so often, he did not venture to give an opinion. The Gravitas lived in the questions and the way he placed them. It is called personality.
The easy stream of conversations between the two was an absorbent part of the broadcast. When Lineker Rooney, who was excellent, asked if he would have liked to play next to Erling Haaland, it brought meaning.
When Micah Richards Rooney asked what it was like to take a team conversation when 1-0 was up, Lineker could offer an interjections that few presenters would try: “His teams were never 1-0.”
We are told that the geniuses that run BBC Sport want to appeal to 'The Young', as if that audience does not appreciate perspective.
But when a 64-year-old who has lived and inaded football life, quietly notes that a beautiful shot program segment was moving on Ebereechi eze-that is beautiful! What a thoughtful young man ' – it actually means something. There was also excellence to the contribution of the former Palace striker Glenn Murray.
'The FA Cup will always be important for some of us,' thought Lineker, who through the 1990 final and an analogue video of himself, 'a Numpty', said, missing a penalty for spurs against Nottingham Forest in 1991.
This time the BBC will designate fewer characteristics for the final for the final. The broadcast will be poorer for it.