When, as Chelsea did at Birmingham, they runoutof steam and ideas he is the sort of player who can get you something to rescue a point or even snatch a win.
It soon becomes evident that Professor Hawking and Mr Mlodinow regard a philosophical problem as something you knock off over a quick cup of tea after you have runoutof Sudoku puzzles.
Surely, they say, anybody who can both run a large multinational company and also get up and down outof a nasty sand trap must have been designed by something real smart.