AS we gratefully wave goodbye to the sporadically-enforced boredom that is the international break, thoughts turn to Watford. Or maybe that's just me.

The yellow-shirted ones take on the might of Manchester United and their self-proclaimed "one of the greatest managers in the world" in the tea-time kick off that promises to be a feast of deception.

United will undoubtedly go into the game as favourites to win given their array of expensive stars and, well, name.

But, just like love, money alone can't you success, and if big club's name gave them a divine right to win Liverpool would have a Premier League title by now.

No, you have to earn success once the cheque book is put away, and that's where United have struggled in recent seasons.

If there were titles for hot air Mourinho would win it hands down.

But it's your team that has to be hot to take the honours and out of today's two opponents it's Watford who can lay claim to that so far this season.

They are one of three teams – Liverpool and Chelsea being the others – who resume Premier League action this weekend boasting one-hundred-per-cent winning records from their opening four matches.

So at what point do you start taking Watford seriously for the title?

Probably never as history shows that 99 per cent of the time the colours on the trophy at the open-top bus parade in May are either the blue of Chelsea or Manchester City or the red of Arsenal or United.

But not always, and here is where football gets interesting.

Every now and then you get a rogue outfit pooping the Premier League party – a little-known waif who decides he is going to mix it with the establishment and ruffle a few feathers.

Leicester did it three seasons ago with a team which, on paper, had no right to win the title.

And, going back to 1994/95, Blackburn Rovers achieved the improbable by ensuring their name would forever be mentioned when lists of Premier League champions were recited.

Some will point to the money Blackburn were able to spend on the likes of Alan Shearer as a key reason for their triumph.

But the same could be said of City, United and Chelsea who have all achieved success while being able to outspend most, if not all, of their rivals.

It is disingenuous to dismiss Blackburn's title triumph as solely down to their spending power at the time.

Apart from Shearer they had a side that was not too dissimilar to Leicester's of three seasons ago in that they were decent Premier League standard who gelled together to make a formidable team.

A quick peruse of the Leicester champions' squad still makes it hard to believe they were capable of winning the league.

No disrespect intended but with the exception of Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kanté the rest would struggle to get into a top-six side with many maybe finding it hard to get into any Premier League starting 11.

It just showed what an amazing achievement it was by them and their manager that season, Claudio Ranieri.

It probably took until March before the football world really started to believe they could win the title, which is why no one so far this season will be regarding Watford's winning start as anything but temporary.

The sight of Watford's former chairman Sir Elton John punching his fists in the air in delirious celebration at the final whistle of their victory over Spurs last time out suggests Watford supporters themselves also see it like that.

But Leicester proved it doesn't have to be that way and, who knows, maybe, just maybe, come May Watford may also still be standing.