Glenn Hoddle is convinced his Tottenham team are on the brink of reviving their former glory days in Europe.
Tottenham have won five of their last six games and will have the four top clubs, including bitter local rivals Arsenal, looking anxiously over their shoulders in the race for Champions League places should they improve that impressive record still further by beating bottom-of-the-table Ipswich at White Hart Lane tomorrow.
Hoddle feels that if Tottenham clinch a European place this term it will only be the start of a lasting revival.
He said: "Europe has always been our target, whether we get there this season or next, and I think we look capable of achieving it.
"It's something this club has always been endeared to because there have been a lot of big glory nights at Tottenham in the past and we want them again.
"We could do it through our league position or in one of the cups, but whatever it is we have to stay consistent, which we've been all season so far.
"Whenever we've lost we've bounced back straight away and put together a new winning run.
"But it is a testing time coming up, with the usual glut of games over Christmas and a lot more in January, including two legs of a Worthington Cup semi-final and two rounds of the FA Cup _ if we win the first at Coventry."
- PA