Neil reckons that the tense, topsy-turvy nature of their semi-final could give them an edge over Middlesbrough, whose victory over Brentford was relatively straight-forward.
Even during the tense climax, he keeps things light, combining smiley walkout with stinging kicker: "It's getting a little Diane Sawyer in here," referencing the famously intrusive interviewer.
But in Prey, Chris Lunt's tense, gut-wrenching drama about John Simm's cop going on the run after his family is slaughtered, she was just exceptional.
Christophe Berra saw red and 25,000 fans in yellow went wild, sensing that that was probably the moment where the most tense of East Anglian derbies had turned in Norwich City's favour.
Then one woman turned up with her sister, who had not participated in the project, and the atmosphere turned tense.
As the results came in, initially I experienced an enormous sense of relief because I hadn't realised how tense the idea of a Labour-SNP coalition had made me.
The tense atmosphere was broken by passersby who gave protesters fruit and cakes, and a friendly police officer who corrected a spelling mistake in chalking on the pavement: "Trying to help homeless evicted on Christmas Eve".
A surprisingly tense and nervous Mr Blair has stressed time and again that he believed Saddam should be removed "if there was any possibility" that he had WMD.
At a tense meeting between staff, union and management after the announcement Newspoll's head researcher told staff the new methodology used by Galaxy was "crap methodology, telephone research is the best way to do it," sources who were at the meeting told Guardian Australia.
This is a really tense time in British politics and it feels incredible to know that I've made an impact and taken a stand against something about which I was unhappy.
McGowan said that interactions between the two rival campaigns had become "tense" in the days leading up to the poll but insisted that her level of collaboration with unions or other parties was "zilch".
