Champions League

It was such an exciting prospect having Spurs in the Champion's League this season.  I have supported them since I was a very young child and went to all the games when I was living in London.  Of course the glory days of the early 60's haven't been replicated at the Lane since, although we've won a few F.A., League and UEFA cups, the European Cup has never been in the trophy cabinet.

To see the Spurs players walk out on the pitch to the sound of Handel's 'Zadok the Priest' (better known to most as Champions League intro music) does make me shiver with excitement.

Anyway so far we've done ok, first match I was on holidays in Spain and we watched it in a bar, Spurs were away to Werder Bremmen and were winning 2-0 but Werder Bremen came back to equalise. The next game was at home to FC Twente, a brilliant game and we came out worthy winners 4-1.

Tonight though we play the present champions Inter Milan away.  I hope we can manage a draw, a win would be brilliant...but!  I do feel that last year one of the reasons Inter won the trophy was having Jose Mourinho as coach, he's not called the special one for nothing.  We now travel to the San Siro on level points with Inter and all to play for. As Inter Milan's Lucio says

"Tottenham are rookies in the Champions League but they possess an excellent squad with many internationals and with enormous quality in front of goal"

Please, please please.

Wow that was some match, the first 45 minutes everything that could go wrong, did go wrong as Inter took a 4-0 lead and we went down to 10 men.

We were 1-0 down inside two minutes but it quickly went from bad to worse against the Champions League holders.

Heurelho Gomes was sent off for bringing down Jonathan Biabiany in the box and Samuel Eto'o doubled Inter's lead from the penalty spot.

We also lost the attacking guile of Luka Modric, who had to be sacrificed to allow Carlo Cudicini to take over in goal.

A native of Milan and former AC keeper, Carlo could do little as Dejan Stankovic struck the third from 20 yards five minutes later and Eto'o made it 4-0 at half-time.

The 10 men certainly looked fired up at the start of the second half and Bale opened his account in stunning style, a 70-yard dash past Maicon and Javier Zanetti before firing low across Julio Cesar into the far corner  Watch incredible Bale goals

That looked to be our consolation as the game entered the final few minutes but Bale struck again, a carbon-copy of his first, beating Zanetti and lashing into the same corner for 4-2 in th 90th minute.

Incredibly, the Welsh star completed his hat-trick a minute later as he made it a treble of drives into that bottom corner, this time from Aaron Lennon's assist.

The only shame was that there was no time left in added time to mount another serious attack.

It actually felt like we won the game in the end.  Never mind they have to visit the Lane in 2 weeks so hopefully we'll get revenge.  Great result as well between Werder and FC Twente (a Draw) means we are still holding on to second place.