Neymar’s certainly right up there. Robben is another one, and the most annoying one of the bunch, to me. He’s always ready to make his little back-arched, hands up dive the moment someone looks at him hard, and--this is hard to explain--he does it with a kind of rhythm and conviction that seems to get the ref every time.
The League Cup result suits me. 0-0 will get Chelsea through, but only after extra time. I was wondering after Chelsea went up whether anyone really thought Liverpool was going to come back. But credit to them, they did well to get the draw. I still wonder if anyone really thinks Liverpool is going to get through, though. Before today’s game, I thought I wanted Chelsea to make it to the finals, and now I’d much rather Liverpool did. I don’t know what I was thinking.