Goals Galore: Watch Emanuel Adebayor In Wild Race for Golden Boot

Now that the Premier League is six weeks old, it has started to settle down and the "usual order" is starting to become more apparent.

The Big Four are at their normal end of the table, Europa League hopefuls such as Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are moving in the right direction and clubs such as Portsmouth and Hull City, who were expected to struggle against relegation are, predictably, doing just that.

Yet as well as wondering who is going to finish where this term, another equally intriguing question is also starting to take shape, namely: Who will be the Golden Boot winner this season?

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One thing looks certain, whoever does win it will probably have to do better than Nicolas Anelka who managed to grab the title last year with 19 Premier League goals - and that is because a variety of strikers from different clubs have started in style.

Fernando Torres is currently at the top of the tree having already scored eight goals this term – helped by his hat-trick against Hull City last Saturday – but he has by no means streaked ahead of the opposition.

Perhaps the most surprising name in the race for the Golden Boot is the man who is two goals behind Liverpool's Spanish forward, Sunderland's Darren Bent.

Bent only joined Sunderland in the summer following an unhappy spell at Tottenham Hotspur, but he has already become a huge favourite on Wearside, courtesy six goals which have helped the Black Cats achieve to their best-ever Premier League start.

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and Chelsea's Didier Drogba are also both on half a dozen goals so far this season, the Tottenham Hostpur duo Robbie Keane and Jermaine Defoe are just one strike behind on five goals apiece, while Louis Saha at Everton has finally remained free of injury to make a great start to the season on five goals.

Further challenges for the top spot look likely to come from Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor who has scored four goals since his switch from Arsenal in the summer, while fellow City team-mate Carlos Tevez will also be striving to put his name in the hat.

It is perhaps too early to stake money on any one player because, if the Premier League continues in its current vein, the race for the Golden Boot could be the hottest and most open for some time.

But, if handed £1,000 and told to place my bet, Abeyaor would be my choice. He made a wonderful start at City with four goals in four games until that was halted by his recent suspension for improper conduct following his goal celebration against Arsenal.

That will surely fire him up to continue that good run when he does return and there is nothing more dangerous than a man with something to prove.

Torres is obviously a good shout if he stays fit, but he also knows that Liverpool rely on him almost single-handedly to score the majority of their goals and it remains to be seen whether that mental pressure will prove too much to handle.

Defoe and Keane have historically never been strikers who get 25-plus goals a season, which seems to be the minimum it may take this year to win it .

Bent is also falls into that category, but he is playing with the extra adrenaline that always arrives when a player joins a new club. When that starts to fail, will he have enough left in the tank to maintain his good start?

To a certain extent yes but not as much as Adebayor possesses. My money's on Emmanuel.