MAKE no mistake – this is massive.

Tonight's Champions League clash with nine-time champions Real Madrid is one of the biggest games in living memory.

But, as has been the way with every match past the group stages, I feel little or no nerves as each chance to enjoy watching my team play at this level is a bonus.

I'm far more concerned about our form in the Premier League and retaining that much-coveted fourth spot.

And so I go into tonight's match relishing the prospect of seeing our players take on the likes of Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, and their ilk.

Gareth Bale, so crucial in our group stage success, could return to action but as I said in yesterday post, I'd rather seem him sealed up in a packing crate full of clouds and locked in a basement below White Hart Lane until our match with Stoke on Saturday.

That said I'm sure that with strong side out tonight we have a real and tangible chance of pulling off another upset in the competition.

It is, after all, the forum in which we have played our best football by far this year.

Believe, folks, because something incredible things do happen in football.