Cheers for the post GF. Greavesie is a funny one when it comes to football, especially Spurs. It's very strange and depressing the relationship he has with the club. He's arguably the greatest living Spurs legend (though Mackay I think was the greater Spurs player) yet you won't see him at the Lane, dunno the last time he went there. All very sad.
Benfica broke both our hearts in 62, as a kid it was my first football heartbreak, and maybe still the biggest. Even winning this time wouldn't make up for that. It's probably the only realistic chance I'll see in my lifetime of us winning the European Cup (CL) and to think that happened over 50 years ago, a sad comment on what we've achieved since, it's been good, very good at times, but in the end not good enough.
Re the forthcoming game, we've got a good chance, but I must admit I think we'll lose again, the second leg at home will tip it for them.
Re style of play, I instinctively favour the 'old-fashioned' English 'fighting' style, unlike Dutchy in one of the previous posts. It'll probably be a mix of styles, but get crosses onto the box, look for set piece goals, to me that's a better route than 'possession football' which the continentals tend to be used to and adept at dealing with. Look how the goals came v Dnipro, I could give endless other examples from our Euro campaigns.
Arguably our greatest campaign was the 61/62 one, and more than once it was 'fighting, direct football' that got us goals, lump it up to Bobby Smith and he'd put the ball and keeper in the net, happy days, except that semi-final.