Round Up

1) David "fucking" Pleat gets it totally wrong on the recent Man U - Chelsea game. As Andy Gray pointed out, Chelsea's strength came from the indomitable midfield triangle of Mikel John Obi, holding that shit tight, and Essien/Ballack feeding off each other and making surging runs through the middle. Yes, The Drog is great but he had a poor game.

2) The Economist is doing a continuing series on how football explains economics. I love that shit.

3) I am still yet to see Carrick have a good game.

I fucking hate fucking Liverpool - Part Deux

So they get some soft refereeing decisions and scrape through. Doesn't stop them being boring to watch and extremely lucky...