Take it for Granted: we ain’t special any more

I FOUND myself humming “we’renot special anymore” as I left Stamford Bridge on Sunday — and that was somewhat cheerful, compared to much of the talk around me, as I trudged back to the pub.

We were ordinary, to say the least and the dour-faced Grant is finding out rather quickly that delivering attractive free-flowing football means more than just talking about it at post-match interviews.

The games against Schalke and Everton showed the City hammering to be exactly the fluke result that many feared it was. Schalke in particular was very Mourinho in its execution, as under him the football we played away from home in Europe was often painful to watch — the difference is that Abramovich would have used exactly this sort of result as a stick to beat Mourinho with, whereas Grant is seemingly untouchable, no matter how turgid the football is and how naïve his substitutions and tactics are.