Total control: The cult of Louis van Gaal

There was a time when the great philosophers wrestled with less crucial posers. Stuff like whether the world exists at all outside the mind.

Total control: The cult of Louis van Gaal

The big thinkers came up with a good few theories on that one, though I’m not sure if they ever truly got to the bottom of it. But we got on with things anyway, out in the notional world, which may or may not have answered the question.

Nowadays, the great philosophers have been pressed into the sporting arenas and have to do a bit more to earn their corn.

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