Grant still unpopular, despite our good form

LONDON prices seem positively reasonable after three days in Norway —although paying over €10 a pint didn’t seem to put the Chelsea faithful off their drink.

Despite the old wallet taking a bit of a hammering, it was just nice to be once again watching football in a relaxed atmosphere, without some meat-head in a painfully bright jacket screaming at you to sit down.

The Norwegian police were even more relaxed than the Germans and again there was no one held in after the match — although this was probably to provide entertainment to the Rosenborg supporters as 1400 Chelsea fans attempted to navigate their way over the pavements of snow and black ice. The result also contributed to a thoroughly enjoyable trip — and I was surprised at how easy that victory was. Rosenborg were a shadow of the team that came to Stamford Bridge.