He said it was important "intellectuals did not try to intellectualise" the game and "take it away from the people", and he claimed that making mistakes is human but what VAR was doing "was inhumane".
Speaking ahead of Iran's Group B decider against his native Portugal he said it was important "intellectuals did not try to intellectualise" the game and "take it away from the people", and he claimed that making mistakes is human but what VAR was doing "was inhumane".
But much more concerning was a Radio 4 programme last Wednesday, which purported to intellectualise, under the banner of human dignity and choice, a discussion that included dwarf hurling as a sporting pastime and consensual cannibalism.
In the four-week rehearsal process, it was okay to ask any question, to bring up any story, to really over-analyse everything and intellectualise everything."
We can intellectualise for ever about the merits of any element around us - from great art to architecture - but if the first response isn't an honest emotional response, the rest isn't worth a damn.
The only sort of adults who seek to intellectualise the programme are those regressively infantile adults who regard The Simpsons as superior to Shakespeare or Beckett.