After we were beaten by Fulham yesterday, the outlook looked pretty bleak and with Chelsea visiting West Ham today, I thoroughly expected to be six points behind by this evening.

However, is it my imagination or are Chelsea wobbling a little bit themselves recently?

Don’t get me wrong, we are wobbling all over the place at the moment and I would rather be four points ahead than four points behind at any stage of the season but it almost seems like Chelsea know that this title is there for their taking and they just can’t put together the run they need to make it theirs.

Since a brilliant 3-0 victory over Arsenal last month, they have been knocked out of the Carling Cup by Blackburn, they were beaten by Manchester City in the Premier League, they drew against Apoel Nicosa in the Champions League, they drew against Everton in the Premier League before finally getting a 2-1 win against bottom club Portsmouth.

Today they drew against West Ham who were also virtually bottom of the League.

Chelsea fans will probably say that nothing much can be read into the “defeat” in the Carling Cup and nothing can be read into the draw against Apoel in the Champions League and I would probably agree with them.

However, it does not detract from the fact that in their last four Premier League games they have picked up just five points from a possible twelve.

I would have expected a fully firing Chelsea to have picked up nine or ten points from those games.

Even we have picked up six points in our last four Premier League matches and we’ve been playing with virtually half a team.

Chelsea will be waving goodbye to one or two of their big players during January’s African Cup of Nations while hopefully we’ll be welcoming back the likes of Owen Hargreaves and Rio Ferdinand plus all the other defenders who are currently injured.

After yesterday’s depression, I am probably going to be diagnosed as bi-polar but I have a sneaky little feeling that we are going to overturn this deficit by the end of January.