Now, given the stage of the Champions League, it is a rather cheery thought that all across Europe a whole new audience rub their eyes in disbelief at the madness that is Tottenham Hotspur. I must admit that the thought of an in-form Inter meeting a mediocre Hotspur is very scary. However, after the first few minutes, I was convinced that we would be going down hammer and tongs and end up at the wrong side of a nine goal thriller. The worst start of any Spurs match I have ever seen. In just under two minutes, the scoreline had already changed against us and not too long after, the unthinkable, Gomes gets sent off for an innocuous foul on Jonathan Biabiany. Eto'o converts the penalty and its 2-0. Now, at this point, if I had been any less of a fan, I would have called it a night and waited for the worst in the morning, but it takes a lot of heart to be a Spurtan, so I persevered. Before long, 14 minutes to be precise, I was on the verge of tears as Stankovic slotted a third past Cudicini. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong as we sank 4-0 by half-time.
Our brilliant Welshman's second half hat-trick gave the final scoreline of this group match more than a touch of respectability after we had looked dead and buried in 15 minutes. Bale took over the San Siro in the last few minutes beating Zanetti and firing past Maicon and Julio Cesar for what looked like our consolation. With just five minutes left, Bale scored another in the same fashion to make the score 4-2. Finally, in the dying minutes, Lennon teed up Bale who completed his hat trick but time was over as we went down heroically to a 4-3 scoreline.
