Bridge Banter: Was Jose Mourinho's Billy McCulloch masseur revelation just a bluff about Chelsea title chances?

12:17pm Friday 7th February 2014 in Sport By Tim Ashton

You never know whats going to happen in this beautiful game.

The Chelsea lads may have arrived in Manchester on a bus (OK, more likely a luxury coach) but it was parked in an allotted space outside the Etihad stadium.

Ask any self-important sports journalist, and they would have insisted that the bus was going to be plonked in front of Petr Cechs goal.

Ask any pundit who graces a comfy chair in a TV studio because he used to play the game, and they would have told you the same.

Ask Jose Mourinho and he just tells you what he wants you to hear.

Then he turns in a performance of such tactical genius that those aforementioned scribblers and bawlers can be found quickly deleting their wayward predictions and whistling an innocuous tune.

Chelsea did not do a containing job on the previously invincible City, because they did not need to.

Straight from the off they went at the jugular and they were unlucky not to score more than Branislav Ivanovics decisively sweet strike.

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Was Mourinho's masseur revelation just a bluff about Chelsea title chances?