FRANK LAMPARD HUMILIATE CHELSEA BY SCORING LATE GOAL FOR MAN-CITY

Frank Lampard has influenced many a title race down the years, but usually tipping it in the favour of Chelsea.

Could though, his late equaliser – and perhaps ultimately his only goal – for Manchester City have kept alive a Premier League title race that looked to have tipped substantially in Chelsea’s favour?

Despite the early forays of Southampton and Aston Villa to the upper reaches of the table the consensus pick (apologies Arsenal fans) is that the 2014/15 race would be played out between City and Chelsea.

For City then to have been left eight points adrift just five games into the season would have presented them with a huge challenge to overcome.

Granted, the season is very much in its infancy but this is a Chelsea side with added potency and one, under Jose Mourinho, not susceptible to the level of points dropping needed for sides to overcome such margins.

Sport though has a wonderfully unique way of producing the sort of moments that can leave you scratching your head and wondering whether such scripted moments would even be plausible if you were to pitch them as the plot of a movie