Objectively intelligent.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

There were a half dozen Danes in front of him. He wasn’t going to score, right? In football they don’t call pass interference if the pass was not catchable. No such futility rule in fotbal?

If it's a foul in the box, it's a penalty, even if the player fouled is dribbling away from goal with 11 defenders between him and the goal. No doubt, it was a soft call. But, the Danish defender should not have let the ref make that call, and the final score was not unfair to England, which was the better team.