Well, who would have thunk it. Our deadly local rivals did us a massive favour today and dropped Chelsea onto their backsides with all the ruthlessness of Mike Tyson in his heyday.

I was hoping rather than expecting that City would remember that, these days, they are expected to go to places like Stamford Bridge and look for a result.

The table now shows that we are just one point behind Chelsea again and I wish I had put a post up last week when Chelsea were just 1.50 to win the League. I thought then that was ridiculously low with more than ten games still to play.

A few things are just starting to conspire against Chelsea at the moment and it is probably fortunate for them that we are about to go into an International break.

Cole injured, Cech injured, John Terry a shadow of his usual self. Chelsea ended today’s game with just nine men on the field as Belletti was given a straight red card and Ballack was shown a red after two yellow cards.

They remain top by the slenderest of margins but if anything else goes against them in the next couple of weeks, they might just start to wonder if it’s just not meant to be… again.