There is only one game in which two Queens can beat three Aces and that is football. While 20 players played football on Monday at White Hart Lane, Didier Drogba and Michael Ballack rolled around on the floor at any given opportunity holding various parts of their bodies.

These Queens of the football stage really add nothing to Chelsea and should go. Tottenham's three Aces, Robbie Keane, Dimitar Berbatov and Aaron Lennon, looked no better for their one-game rest and failed to get into the game very much.

As the stats showed, the game was fairly even but, quite frankly, the Tottenham side dropped their idiot heads and failed to pressurise Chelsea after the first goal. That led, very neatly, to Chelsea's second. If Spurs had shown more backbone after the first, the story could have been quite different.

The backbone was there, it did exist, and we all got to see it after Keane parked the ball neatly in the back of the Chelsea net after 80 minutes. If the assertive behaviour Spurs showed after that goal had been present earlier in the game, it might have left Chelsea more out of sorts and created some space for Keane and Berbatov to move into.

In the match at Stamford Bridge, Spurs threw everything including the kitchen sink, the faucet, the piping and the plumber at Chelsea, rocking them back and leaving them in disarray. Disappointingly, Spurs tried a cautious approach for 60 of the 90 minutes at The Lane and, unsurprisingly, it didn't work. Tottenham do not have naturally cautious players, it does not suit their play.

Where the confidence of the last seven games went for 60 minutes is beyond me but I do hope it's back for the next 90 minutes. The good news is that Ricardo Rocha looks better next to Dawson every game. This Portuguese chap looks another astute buy. On a night when a £200m investment beat a £4m investment* (if only just) there is that solace for Spurs fans looking to success through the UEFA Cup -- for which, unfortunately, Rocha is cup-tied -- and a European place in the league.