JJ: The whole semi-final is a blur. I was on fire at that time, I felt invincible.
Ledley: That was your best spell at Tottenham.
JJ: Easily. Juande Ramos put a lot of belief in me and that took me to another level. I felt the fittest I ever felt and I remember going into the Arsenal semi-final just thinking ‘no matter what, you are not going to be able to stay with me’.
Ledley: I remember you being box-to-box and just running past people.
JJ: Even with the goal in the first leg, I remember Keano used to drop off and that was like a trigger for me, I’d just go. He dropped off and I was gone and before I knew it, I was one-on-one with the goalkeeper. When I look back at it now though, when I went through, I relaxed so much just thinking it was a tap-in and the ball actually goes under the goalkeeper! Once we beat Manchester City in the quarter-finals when we went down to 10 men, the belief really started and come to the semi-finals, we were flying.
Ledley: I remember the City game but that was the start of the problems with my knee. I’d just had a big operation.
JJ: You hadn’t trained for ages leading up to the final.
Ledley: I didn’t do anything between the semi-final and the final.
JJ: I always needed that thing in my head where I’m thinking ‘I’m fit’ and I could look at the midfielder I’m playing against and think ‘you are not going to stay with me’. But I remember thinking before the final ‘how is Ledley going to get through this game?’ because you hadn’t played for weeks.
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OBITUARY – JOHNNIE HILLS
We were saddened to hear of the passing of John ‘Johnnie’ Hills, a defender who spent 11 years at the Club as an amateur and professional between 1950-61. He passed away at home in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday, 26 November, aged 87.
PAPER CHASE
Club historian John Fennelly looks back at what supporters were reading on their way, at half-time and heading home afterwards when NORWICH CITY visited in March 1938.
RIDE FOR UGO
Laurence Gant, Head of Academy Sports Medicine and Science, is set to take part in a five-day charity cycle in memory of his friend, and our former Under-23s coach Ugo Ehiogu.
DEVELOPMENT SQUAD
BIG WIN OVER EVERTON
SPURS WOMEN
INTERNATIONAL ROUND
GAME ZERO ACHIEVES NET ZERO CARBON STATUS
Sky this week published a case study revealing that Game Zero, our Premier League match against Chelsea here in September, achieved net zero carbon emissions.
LIVING IN THE MOMENT
Exclusive interview with our young midfielder OLIVER SKIPP, now an established member of our first team and also a familiar face to today’s opponents, who is enjoying every moment in the Premier League spotlight.
MEET OUR FIRST-YEAR UNDER-18S PLAYERS
TOUGH DAY AGAINST COTTAGERS
TREBLE TOP
Looking back at Spurs hat-tricks scored against tonight’s opposition.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
A creative midfielder who was full of heart and desire, LEWIS HOLTBY made his Spurs debut against this afternoon’s opposition back in January 2013 and went on to make 42 appearances in our colours, scoring three goals. We caught up with the Germany international to discuss his time at the Club and find out what he is up to now…
