He will have had it confirmed at halftime, when Barcelona's intrinsically honest players protested to him as they left the field.
Mr. Warner has played movie heavies so frequently -- his daughter, Melissa, protested to him when she discovered his name on a Web site devoted to screen villains -- that you half expect an encounter to involve a lot of glowering.
When Conservatives protested to him against the implication that the war must go on to free the slaves, even after reunion had been won, he explained, "To me it seems plain that saying reunion and abandonment of slavery would be considered, if offered, is not saying that nothing else or less would be considered, if offered".
"'Abraham Lincoln fixed it so we wouldn't have to live like this,'" I protested to him one night.
In a recent television appearance, Mr. Shafik vowed that if he was elected, he would shut off the electricity to Tahrir Square before allowing a protest to drive him from power.
The media, spotting the protest, came to him in waves for interviews where he calmly, factually, and resolutely explained the reason for his protest.
Here was the arrogant Leo, the mandolescent who asked supermodels, "Do you know who I am?" Or the petulant Leo, hurling manure at Italian paparazzi when no more sophisticated form of protest occurred to him.
Activists in the large Yemeni community in New York, where Mr. Saleh was to head for treatment, quickly started planning protests to greet him.
Urged on by these foreign supporters, Mr Lugo abandoned his initial passivity, and called for protests to restore him to office.
