Spurs can use new stadium bounce to bring down City

WHAT an atmosphere there will be at Tottenham and I’m not writing them off over two legs. I think they’ve got a chance against Manchester City, especially with Harry Kane and Dele Alli back to full fitness. They’re strong everywhere and they can score goals. Son Heung-min is a fantastic player. They’ve done well in Europe to get out of a tough group when they were almost dead and buried. They scored late goals and got last-minute results. The English teams have got a great chance. City are unbelievable but there’s no reason why Spurs can’t give them a game. The new stadium will be a massive boost. It will be like some of the famous European nights. Going back to the Sixties, I remember watching them play against a Polish team called Gornik Zabrze. The Gornik goalkeeper came out for a cross in the first minute and Bobby Smith mangled him up in the back of the net. The poor goalie never came off his line again, and they beat them 8-1. That was a great Spurs team with the likes of Danny Blanchflower, Cliff Jones and Dave Mackay. I still think Mackay was the best player who ever played for Tottenham. Glenn Hoddle was a great player, obviously, and Harry Kane now, Gareth Bale, Luka Modric... but Dave Mackay was incredible. In 2011 when we got to the quarter-finals we got after teams at White Hart Lane. Gareth was unplayable at times. Everyone remembers the game against Inter Milan. The only time we didn’t get after a team was AC Milan when we won 1-0 away and kept it tight at home and drew. Clarence Seedorf was pulling the strings and Max Allegri was the manager. We never really got a chance against Real Madrid in the quarter-final. In the first leg in Spain, Aaron Lennon wasn’t well so we had to make a late change. They scored early and then Crouchie got sent off and it was impossible. In my last year there, we should have got back in the Champions League. We finished fourth. We should have finished third but we squandered a big lead over Arsenal for third and they went and won at West Brom on the last day. Then Chelsea went and won the Champions League and we missed out. That was one of the worst decisions I’ve ever made, going to the game that night in Germany. I went with my son Jamie and Graeme Souness, who had a pal with a plane and they were going over so they invited me. We played golf the day before and watched the game in a TV box. At the end of the game we had to walk around the pitch at the back of the goal they’d kept all the Chelsea fans in. As I walked past they all started singing, ‘Thursday night Channel Five’. It’s quite funny now but not at the time. I was absolutely gutted.