COMMENT: Todd Boehly and Frank Lampard. Chelsea's owner has played a blinder here. The decision to bring back a favourite son the American's best football decision he's made since taking over in June...

And we say football decision because that's exactly what it is. The cynics today are trotting out claims of it all being an exercise of bluster and PR. A vain attempt to mend a growing divide between the owners and the support.

Rubbish. Sometimes football decisions involve giving the fans what they want. Generating excitement. Emotion. Even nostalgia. Sir Alex Ferguson famously quipped he'd routinely seek a big money signing not so much for team benefit, but simply to get the Stretford End bouncing. And from there, to build on that emotion.

Yes, football is tactics. Systems. A high press. A lock block... but it's also emotion. Passion. And such intangibles, when pored in the right direction, can get you far. Bringing Lampard back gives Chelsea that zeal. That positivity. Everything that has been missing this season. It's a decision that is a circuit breaker. One to change and right course. As we say, playing on pure emotion can get you far.

But Lampard's return goes beyond that. He's an anchor. As is his staff. We're yet to get confirmation, but there's a strong belief Chris Jones, Joe Edwards and Ashley Cole will all join Lampard in returning to Cobham in the coming days. Men who've been associated with Chelsea for a decade, if not longer. They know the club. The staff. The culture. Familiar faces back at a club that has been in a constant state of flux since June. Seeing Lampard and Cole around the place again, smiling, cracking jokes, it can only be good for staff morale. It's something they've desperately missed. That stability; that know-how by personality. This is what Lampard and his offsiders will bring back. A common familiarity and fellowship that had been lost as the new owners cut a swathe through staffing.

Of course, on the pitch is where it'll matter. And Wolves at Molineux on Saturday is an opportunity to instantly spark some momentum. Critically, as much as the dressing room has changed, Lampard takes charge of a team who's core was in place during his previous spell. Before Graham Potter's dismissal, this column highlighted results were turning for the better as the then Blues manager relied on the more established players, rather than continuing to experiment with his new additions.

Lampard, you fancy, will do the same. For the caretaker, the timing of N'Golo Kante's return - and that performance against Liverpool - couldn't be better. And significantly, Lampard finally gets a chance to work with Kalidou Koulibaly after pursuing the former Napoli captain for much of the two years of his former reign.

So he knows the bulk of the players. And the players know him. But the biggest factor in all this will be the support. Away at Molineux. Away in Madrid. Then at home at the Bridge. The fans will be everything in the coming week. If Boehly and Behdad Eghbali ever needed a lesson on the difference between British football and American sports, they'll get it over the coming week. This will be all about emotion. Molineux will be crucial. Indeed, take that passion Lampard drove through his Everton players for last season's Great Escape and transfer it to this Chelsea group and they have a chance, a real chance, of pulling off something special over the next seven days.

And it will be on a wave of emotion. Football emotion. A final stretch. Two months of the season to run. Lampard, if you like, is Boehly's pinch hitter. The LA Dodgers owner has dropped him in at a critical stage - not only of the season, but his management of Chelsea. Whether by fault or design, Boehly will be banking on Lampard, Cole and co creating a wave of emotion to carry them through to the end of the season. And no matter the criticism of his tactics and systems, no-one can argue Lampard isn't capable of riling up a team to get them performing over a short-term.

This is a blinder by Boehly, it really is. Decisive. Opportunistic. That a deal was only closed on Wednesday after Lampard and family had attended the previous evening's stalemate with Liverpool is credit to the chairman. It was Lampard's first appearance in the stands at Stamford Bridge since his sacking. Tickets having been organised months in advance.

Tonight, Boehly will be in Portugal to see Benfica and Porto, with his prime focus being the Eagles' Goncalo Ramos. A fortnight ago, he had Antonio Percassi, the cosmetics king and Atalanta president, as a guest at Stamford Bridge. Boehly's focus then being Rasmus Hojlund.

So he's trying, is Boehly. He's involved. And definitely hands-on. With this decision to bring back a favourite son, there's every chance all this hard work will finally start paying off.