He said: 'We've got to get back to the days when Elland Road was an intimidating place for teams to visit.

"The Harvard Club is the most intimidating place on the planet," he said.

The Outsider ship was an intimidating place.

San Quentin can be an intimidating place to play.

"The gym can be a really intimidating place, and without guidance, a lot of new members will drop out."

New York, he has said, can be a cold, intimidating and lonely place.

Steinway is an intimidating place to play, with celebrity pianists dropping by and giving impromptu concerts inside the plant.

This is an intimidating place to pitch.

It would be hard to imagine a more intimidating place than the return ticket window of the Metropolitan Opera House.

"It can be a very intimidating place," he said.