Tottenham beat Inter Milan

I have refrained from too much football talk since the world cup as the early part of the season is rarely any guide to future performance, and as a Spurs fan, I am always slow to get excited.

Last night however was simply amazing, when the draw for the Champions League was made I thought that simply to see a team of the quality of Inter playing at White Hart Lane would be a great experience, but I never imagined we would, not just win, but make it look easy.

There were hints of what may happen when the ten men spurs team, well Bale and 9 support players, fought back from 4 down to come back to 4-3. Still after that however I had heard people saying we were out of our depth and would get hammered, suspiciously the same people who are strangely quiet today!

Anyway, in case you missed it the most shocking thing was that Bale was not involved in the 1st goal, and that he didn't score any himself, he set up two though so I'll let him off, spurs won 3-1 to go top of the group and within one win of reaching the next stage.

So what of the rest of the season? I would be blinded by my love of the team if I suggested that Spurs were not having a few more struggles this year than I would have liked but clearly the potential is there, we just need to unleash it.

Bale is clearly loving his football at the moment, Van Der Vaart has settled in quickly and last night we saw flashes of Modric at his best, however if we are to see off Man City's challenge for our 4th spot we need to improve.

Lennon needs to step up, with Lennon and Bale on the wings we can run any defence ragged, but he is not quite up to his best at the moment. Also our strikers need to find their form, we have really missed Defoe and the sooner he is back the better. Finally our defence needs to start to look capable of a clean sheet, obviously this is easier said than done with Woodgate, King and Dawson all with prolonged injuries.

My best Spurs 11 (assuming full fitness)

GK Gomes
RB Corluka
CB King
CB Woodgate
LB Ekotto
DM Huddlestone
LM Bale
CM Modric
RM Lennon
AM Van Der Vaart
FW Defoe

Football Season is well under way

Well we are into week three of the football season and I have not made any mention of Spurs so far due to my holiday, It has definitely been a mixed bag so far with a Draw against Man City followed by Defeat by Young Boys and finally our first win against Stoke, so I will do a quick review.

The Man City game was a very frustrating match as I feel we were the better team for a vast portion of the match however I did question last season if it was in fact our strikers who are making our opposition goal keepers look good, at least three times last season it was said that we dominated but the Keeper had the game of his life, it leads me to suspect that we are slightly too obvious in our attacks and perhaps we need a striker who can do the unexpected.

Our first experience of champions league football was definitely not a happy one with the synthetic pitch causing us more trouble than we expected, we were 3-0 down by the 30th minute and all seemed lost, luckily we pulled it back to 3-2 which gives us a great chance however the real cost could well be our injury list with Keane, Defoe, Pavlychenko and Modric all out injured we were seriously short on attacking options for the trip to Stoke.

The Stoke game was again looking to be frustrating as we simply couldn’t find away through the breakthrough eventually coming from Garath Bale’s face, some sloppy defending let Stoke back in with an equaliser before Bale scored what will probably be the goal of the week, There was controversy when Crouch cleared of the line after the goal appeared to go in. in my opinion it was over the line and should have been a goal, however there was a foul leading up to it so in fact I feel the actual result should have been a free kick to us before the ball even came close, but I think we will have to put it down to a bad 5 minutes refereeing. But we had our first win and with tonights visit of Young Boys it really could be a turning point in our season, if we win tonight the confidence will be back, we will be in the group stage so the defeat will be irrelevant and we will still be unbeaten in the league, lose tonight and it is all different the news will be filled of only one win, out of the Champions League etc… so we will see.