The facts: Avram Grant has stormed to 21 wins in his first 28 games in charge of Chelsea. Grant has been without the services of injured captain John Terry. Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba have missed plenty of games too.
After Chelsea reached the Carling Cup final, with a 1-0 win at Everton last night (more about that later), Grant said: ‘Everybody needs to respect what we are doing with all the problems… We have won a lot of games, not only in the league, in the Champions League also and now we are in the Carling Cup final… And we have done it in a good way. It is not easy so I am happy.’