Brendan Rodgers: "Every team that comes through and wins (the title) have to be in that situation at some stage.
"If you go back 10 years or so Chelsea hadn't won the league for 50 years when they eventually did win.
"People may have questioned whether they had the mental strength to win it but when you do win it no-one then questions it.
"I only need to look at the squad and we certainly have the strength of character and we have shown that over a period of time.
"In my time here there has been various items thrown at the team.
"When I first came in we didn't score enough goals and that has now been flipped to we concede too many goals.
"'Do we have the character?' and then we go on a run and we're okay.
"'Is the squad big enough?. Are they fit enough?' It continues but we just concentrate on our work.
"We are up in that top area where we want to be but we don't underestimate any opponent with eight games to go.
"We are just continuing with the focus on a one-game strategy as that's what keeps it simple.
"The objective coming in was to make us a more attacking, potent force knowing the other stuff will improve as we go along and the players have responded magnificently to the ideas we are looking to implement.
"We just work to make ourselves a more potent force. We are not perfect. We have the capacity to keep clean sheets but it has got to be consistent.
"What we have been able to work on is no matter what mistakes we make in the game we still have a positive attitude towards winning it.
"It is not total freedom, it is very much structured in terms of how we work, but I feel people enjoy watching us."
TITLE RUN-IN FIXTURES
CHELSEA (Pld 31 Pts 69 GD +39)
Mar 29 - Crystal Palace A
Apr 5 - Stoke H
Apr 13 - Swansea A
Apr 20 - Sunderland H
Apr 27 - Liverpool A
May 3 - Norwich H
May 11 - Cardiff A
MANCHESTER CITY (Pld 29 Pts 66 GD +52)
Mar 29 - Arsenal A
Apr 5 - Southampton H
Apr 13 - Liverpool A
Apr 16 - Sunderland H
Apr 21 - West Brom H
Apr 27 - Crystal Palace A
May 3 - Everton A
May 7 - Aston Villa H
May 11 - West Ham H
LIVERPOOL (Pld 30 Pts 65 GD +44)
Mar 26 - Sunderland H
Mar 30 - Tottenham H
Apr 6 - West Ham A
Apr 13 - Manchester City H
Apr 20 - Norwich A
Apr 27 - Chelsea H
May 3 - Crystal Palace A
May 11 - Newcastle H
ARSENAL (Pld 31 Pts 63 GD +19)
Mar 29 - Manchester City H
Apr 6 - Everton A
Apr 15 - West Ham H
Apr 19 - Hull A
Apr 28 - Newcastle H
May 3 - West Brom H
May 11 - Norwich A