Weekend Eye: Spot The Difference

Football fans are a very fickle bunch, but should Chelsea win the Premier League, would Avram Grant become the first title-winning manager to get either booed or just ignored on his team's lap of honour? This weekend's win over Manchester United has thrown up that possibility, but of course there's no better way to win over a sceptical public than by delivering trophies, and Grant will never have been as popular with his club's fans than he is right now.

But still there are doubts. Chelsea put in their best performance of the season to beat United, but how much of that was down to their manager? Before kick-off, the visiting team were stood in the tunnel for a good few minutes before the home side emerged from their changing room, presumably because the Blues players were being given a rousing speech to fire them up, but who was delivering it? The dour Grant is an unlikely motivational speaker, so it was more likely captain John Terry or coaches Steve Clarke or Henk Ten Cate.

Whoever it was, it worked, because the Blues came out of the traps all fired up to get the result they needed to go level on points at the top, but again you have to wonder exactly how much Grant deserves the credit for it. After all, despite splashing out on Nicolas Anelka in January, he stuck with a team full of players he inherited from his predecessors and seemed to do little on the touchlines to inspire them.