One Sunday last September, I sat at a table outside one of Lyon's famous traditional bouchon restaurants, eating a sumptuous prix-fixe lunch, as the heavens opened and a small monsoon pounded the cobbles around me.
When asked about potential knighthood recognitions, Lineker humorously responded, "I don't know how you comment on that, because you either say, I wouldn't take it' or, Yeah, why haven't I got one!"