The smile was as broad and wide as ever, the dance to celebrate was as bad as we all remembered but Peter Crouch could not have cared less.
On a humdrum night in the Potteries, during a game that many will easily forget, Stoke City's much-travelled and much respected centre forward finally got the goal he has been craving, the one that made him the 26th entrant into the Premier League's 100 club.
But, much to his disappointment, his landmark strike was not enough to secure the win his side probably deserved. For that he has to share top billing with referee Craig Pawson, whose decision to overrule his assistant David Bryan enabled Everton to pilfer a draw.