Gary Neville was busy holding court on television when the call came. Not literally, you understand. He was, at least, off air when former FA chairman David Bernstein called seven months ago.
Though, at times during the long days of lockdown over Easter, it might have felt to some that there was a non-stop feed of consciousness from the former Manchester United captain, as Sky Sports battled to fill schedules with no actual sport to talk about.
Most mornings Neville would hold forth on Sky, aghast as football in general and the Premier League in particular lurched from crisis to crisis.