You do get asked some fairly daft questions when you work in certain parts of the media. A few weeks ago, someone seriously asked me if I thought Mason Mount’s position at the World Cup for England, his place in the Chelsea team, and indeed in the Chelsea squad, were all in danger. I had to ask if we were talking about the same guy.

I said: ‘Are you talking about the recent Chelsea Player of the Year, who is among the most talented players of his generation, who has been working harder than anyone else in the league and can play brilliantly in just about any position, and just about never misses a game?’

Anyway, the question appeared to arise from the statistic Mason hadn’t created or scored a goal for the Blues in the Premier League this season before the Wolves game. This is the danger when you only consider bald statistics and can’t or won’t have a closer look at the actual games. Or in this case the individual couldn’t have watched the games with any great intelligence. The brilliance and the selflessness of Mason is clear to anyone who opens their eyes at a Chelsea game. It has been crystal clear to every single manager who has worked with him for more than 10 minutes that he gives so much more than just the goals and the assists.

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Happily, Mason got the deserved plaudits for Sunday’s display against Aston Villa, and anyway, the stats are perfectly good when you look at them fairly. We are only in mid-October and he already has three goals this season - he did score against Germany for his country, remember. He also has four assists - two v Wolves, one v Milan and another v Salzburg - and five if you include the penalty he earned in Italy. I tend to count all the top-level matches a player plays, not just individual competitions. It is a much fairer way to look at overall form. In short, crisis, what crisis? More like nonsense, what nonsense!

The match at Villa Park was another tough one away from home and we needed Mason and the lads to battle as hard as they have at any point this season. We spent a bit of time on the ropes, but when we needed a touch of class Mason was there with a quick one-two when we needed him. The first goal may have been an opportunistic strike, nothing wrong with that, but the second knockout punch was a top-drawer classic free-kick any of our great dead-ball strikers of the past would have been proud of.

This battling away from home has become a noticeable feature of the Graham Potter era already. Everybody finds it difficult on the road in the Premier League. All conquering Man City turned out to be fallible after all when they travelled along the M62 to Anfield this weekend to play Liverpool side that had been a shadow of their former selves. I was at Elland Road at the weekend, where Arsenal were staggeringly lucky to get all three points against a Leeds United team that outfought and outplayed them for the whole of the second half.

That fortunate away win for the Gunners meant that two teams won away from home at the weekend, but before, excluding Chelsea, there had only been two away wins in the previous 22 Premier League games played.

If we are being brutally honest, the world-class display by Kepa had at least as much to do with our most recent win as Mason, so we needed a little bit of luck early on our visit to Birmingham before controlling the game in the end.

This recent away form is something to be very pleased about indeed. The wins at Crystal Palace and of course AC Milan have to be factored in as well, not easy places to go and come back unscathed. Well, unscathed apart from losing Reece for a little while. It is a huge blow, but he is young and he will be back soon, hopefully soon enough to travel to Qatar.

It will be just as tough to keep it going when we travel, the relatively short distance this time, over to Brentford tomorrow night. They haven’t quite had the stresses on their squad that we have. When our lads were over in Milan they could have been lying on their sofas at home with their feet up after a nice day off!

They are a very decent side and will demand every bit of effort we have to keep this run going, as well as some smart tactical work, too, but then GP hasn’t put a foot wrong yet in that area. Once again freshness is vital as Brentford are a serious challenge at the Gtech Stadium. You do not get to hammer Manchester United 4-0 and then Leeds United 5-2 by just being lucky. I suspect Kepa will have to be at his best again in at least some periods of this game.

At the moment the Spaniard’s form has been beyond question and he has taken his chance, following Edouard Mendy’s injury, with both hands - and indeed his feet, knees, chest and face when the moment has called for it!

Those are mighty big boots to step into as they belong to the man voted the second-best stopper in the world last year, but it is worth remembering that most keepers really only get close to approaching their best around the age of 28 and beyond. Kepa has reached that age now and you can sense the increased maturity in his performances all the way from the back of the gantry at the top of the stand. Yes, even when you have the likes of Jason Cundy jumping about beside you when Kepa makes another great save!

It promises to be another cracker of a week with Manchester United arriving at the weekend and a crucial European tie against RB Salzburg in Austria to follow. Safely nestled in the top four in the Premier League and a great chance to progress in the Champions League, the manager might even treat himself to a night off and a night out soon. Then again, looking at the fixtures schedule, that might have to wait until the World Cup next month.