It was just like old times, those sepia-tinged, heady days of late-summer 2009, when rubbish teams would traipse up to the Lane and be promptly destroyed, with our heroes requiring nothing beyond second gear. From the outset the only worry last night was that we might fail to turn domination into goals, but merrily this was not to be one of those wretched occasions.

What ho. If I've been doing this right seasoned visitors to AANP Towers should know that as of this Saturday the book "Spurs' Cult Heroes" becomes available to buy in shops. To mark the occasion and whet your appetite, I have posted a world exclusive no less – below, for your visual delectation, is the Introduction to Spurs' Cult Heroes.

During international week I tend to dig out some old DVDs of greatest spurs moments, great FA Cup wins, the best 100 goals or one of the many simple league wins the club so embarrassingly release (and I buy) just to get me through the boredom of no league football. Don't get me wrong I watch the England matches but I also watch the other international games if there's a spurs player involved.

Looking back, Gilly almost ruined things, just as it all began. The impeccable touch, leaping headers and sharp finishing even as a teenager I knew this was class. Trouble was, unconsciously I compared everything that followed with this benchmark, little realising that what I took as a wide-eyed youth to be the norm was [.