He admittedly plays it off better than I would have in a similar position – not that I have a similar position to be in, Wife of Mine – in that he nervously corrects himself, over emphasizes and then moves on.
I fear a custodian would have been forced to mop up a bucket worth of sweaty remains had it been me.
Okay, so it’s definitely a less likely scenario for Mohammad Anas to have done that than for him to have legitimately outed himself as having an extra-marital affair on live TV.
His reaction was just a tad too “WTF did I just do in front of my country and the entire world, and is there any chance that scoring those soccer goals will overshadow anything that has been said here today?”