Michael Vaughan was quick on to the front foot when he appeared at a charity event in Blackpool last Friday.
Despite the ongoing situation with the Azeem Rafiq racism allegations, the former England captain honoured a commitment to take to the stage to raise money for a local primary school.
Vaughan opened up by telling the crowd: 'I don't want you lot in 14 years saying I have said something that I didn't,' immediately addressing what could have been an elephant in the room.
When ribbed about his Lancastrian roots, having lived in the county until the age of 10 before crossing the Pennines, Vaughan joked that — given his treatment by Yorkshire over the course of the Rafiq affair — he was comfortable being called a Lancastrian.