Tottenhaminsight

Tottenham Hotspur are effectively out of the Champions League after falling to a 4-0 defeat against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu Stadium, in the first leg of their quarter final game. Tottenham who are enjoying their inaugural season in the Champions League have defied many critics by progressing so far in the competition and by playing so well. The Tottenham dream of progressing to the semi finals of the competition started to evaporate after only four minutes, as nemesis Emmanuel Adebayor, who has now scored nine goals in his last nine appearances against Tottenham, scored with a header after jumping above Jermaine Jenas. After 14 minutes, the dream was starting to turn into a nightmare, Peter Crouch, who had already been booked for a crude challenge on Sergio Ramos, was shown a second yellow card and then the mandatory red for another late tackle, and the difficult task on taking any kind of result away from the Bernabéu was now looking like an impossibility. after being reduce...