In an uncharacteristic (ahem!) display of bravado and exaggeration, Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has stolen Jose Mourinho's thunder as troublemaker in chief by declaring that Chelsea will have overtaken Manchester United as the world's biggest club by 2014.

I won't be so naive as to believe that the fact that Chelsea meet Manchester United, coincidentally Kenyon's former employers, in a high profile, high stakes game in the English Premiership this weekend has nothing to do with Kenyon's sudden rash statement but if he was hoping to play some mind games with Sir Alex Ferguson he seems to have missed the target.

Manchester United boss Ferguson knows Kenyon all too well from his time at Old Trafford and has wasted no time in rubbishing Kenyon's assumption that United's perch is there for the taking citing the millions of Manchester United fans all over the world as proof of the Lancashire club's continued dominance on a worldwide scale.

Seeing as it's Manchester United at the top of the Premiership table and riding high on a wave of confidence I rather think that Ferguson cares more about the weekend's three points than the subjective issue of "who's bigger" in eight years time and rightly so. Three points from this game will put United well in the driving seat to reclaim their first Premiership title in four years and put an end to the money bags usurpers from West London's sole claims on the trophy.