Remember the 'park the bus,' quote by Mourinho after Martin Jol's Tottingham side frustrated us - well today especially in the second-half once Tottingham were handed their equaliser - it was 'Park The Bus,' revisited.

Chelsea were unimaginative, uncreative and lacked the guile to break down a really poor side who were determined to what they could to avoid going three games into the new season on nil points.

As usual when Tottingham come to The Bridge, they turned us around at the kick-off - we always attack The Shed in the first half and to me that dealt a huge blow to the routine of Chelsea attacking the Matthew Harding in the second-half (you know where you stand for God's sake LOL).

Thank God not many other teams manage to acheive this.

Despite this awkward challenge, Chelsea started quite well - Lampard fizzed in a couple of shots left and right of the post, before he deliciously chipped in one from 20 yards only to see Spurs' Gomez brilliantly tip over the bar.

Essien actually crashed one against the bar and prior to that and Anelka must be sitting at home tonight, wondering why he couldn't convert a chance instead of blazing over the bar.

Had Chelsea been 3-0 up at this point, no one could have complained, Chelsea would have been celebrating and Tottingham would have been rocked solid in cement at the bottom of the Premiership.

Chelsea's goal came from an unlikely source.

From a Deco corner which at first glance looked to be a poor one, the ball found its way to Belletti who turned the ball into the net and it was Juliano's 2nd goal against Tottingham in as many games.

Belletti was a surprise inclusion, due to the absences of Mikel and Ballack but as Scolari explained afterwards, "Belletti was a midfielder when he started his career in Cruzeiro and Sao Paolo. Because I don't have Ballack and Essien has a little injury, I put Belletti in."

Tottingham's equaliser came from a most unfortunate source.

Joe Cole gave away a free-kick and got booked for his troubles.

With the ball pinging about in midfield, the ball bounced off Super Frank straight into the path of Darren Bent who slid the ball past Cech down into the left-hand corner.

That was Tottingham's one and only chance of the game and Chelsea had a hand in it.

I had loads of sympathy for Joe and Deco, each player got booked for their first tackles by an over 'stuffed' police officer in Howard Webb, its no wonder he got kicked off the refs panel at Euro 2008 after the group stages.

Where he punished Chelsea for their tackles, Tottingham got away with their's, perhaps Webb had sympathy for their plight.

Chelsea had minor claims for penalites when John Terry was pulled all over the place in the first-half and Super Frank went tumbling in the Spurs area during the 2nd half.

Perhaps Webb had total recall, when JT clattered into Modric during the 2nd half when one on one, Webb waved play-on but then stopped play after Modric played on the dying swan act.

Had that collision happened in the first-half, based on Webb's performance you could imagine the Chelsea and England Captain taking an early bath.

For me the whole day ended on an irony.

In the space of a week Chelsea sold Shaunie back to Man Citeh and Sheva back to AC, where Cheslea struggled to break down a tepid Tottingham team, I discovered that Shaunie scored TWICE on his Citeh debut and all it needed was to found out that Sheva had scored a winner for AC..... Irony ended to a degree, AC lost 2-1 to Bologna and Sheva didn't score.

CHECK OUT THE BOARD ON MONDAY AS THE RESERVES START THEIR CAMPAIGN AWAY AT ARSENAL AND WILL DIDIER MAKE HIS FIRST RESERVES APPEARANCE?