Players power can lift Grant’s Blues

CHELSEA’S season may be falling apart around them and Avram Grant’s job prospects disintegrating as we speak, but don’t rule out the potential of player power as the title race clicks back into gear this week.

Arsenal may be top of the Premier League right now and Manchester United a close second but despite Saturday’s already infamous FA Cup defeat at Barnsley, Chelsea’s championship challenge is still hanging on for dear life.

Grant will face almost unbearable pressure from a media that has been focused on discarding him since the day he first sat uncomfortably in The Special One’s chair. But the Israeli hasn’t quite been the disaster so many people have made out, even if that statement appears fanciful as Chelsea supporters return to work today to face the abuse and mockery of a nation.