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Tottenham Hotspur opened their glistening new stadium two weekends ago, as their Under-18s team took on Southampton and won 3-1.

On Saturday, another match was played, this time from the other end of the era spectrum as a legends team took on Inter Forever.

The likes of Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane and Darren Anderton all took to the pitch, and all took the time to give their take on the ground, which was home to 45,000 fans against the Nerazzurri.

Take a look at their verdicts below!

Darren Anderton - Long-serving former midfielder

Anderton, who played for the club between 1992 and 2004, believes the club are now well-positioned to bring in some of the best players in the world, saying:

"The club wants to be one of the best clubs in the world and to do that you have to have one of the best stadiums in the world, that's exactly what we need and you want the best players to want to come and play for you and who wouldn't want to play out there every week?

"The wall was unbelievable. Even in the warm up it really was a different sort of sound and it reverberated around there, it was amazing. I can't wait to hear Wednesday night, when it's a full stadium."

David Ginola - A free-scoring dribbler in his heyday

Liverpool v Tottenham 8/11/97 Premiership 
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Tottenham's David Ginola gets away from Liverpool's Steve McManaman 
Tottenham Hotspur

Ginola insists that Spurs are now well-placed to enter something of a golden era, adding:

"For the club it is a massive step forward because playing away from your home is not something that you want and it's been for a long time now.

"First of all, they deserve to play at their home ground and now it's over, the wait is over and Wednesday is going to be the start, hopefully, of something really, really interesting and I think it'll be fantastic.

"The stadium is part of the whole project, there's the training ground, the new stadium, everything is going forward, so I think the future of Tottenham Hotspur is really bright."

Steffen Freund - cult hero and former coaching staff member

Freund enjoyed a five-year spell at the club before returning in 2012 as assistant head coach, and believes the club have sent a message to the entire footballing world, claiming:

"It's a special place and you can see the difference to other new stadiums, like Arsenal, the Etihad, supporters are closer to the pitch and the south stand is a bit like the south stand at Borussia Dortmund. Everything, from the whole staff here at Tottenham was well organised.

"I came in 2012 as assistant coach, I saw the plans of what they could do and now the stadium is even bigger, that time it was 55,000, now 62,000, the second biggest in London. That's a message to everyone in England, and to the world, that you can build a nice stadium with a nice atmosphere and still have over 60,000 supporters."

Robbie Keane - The club's 11th-highest goalscorer

Keane scored a genuinely brilliant goal during the legends game, having played for the club across two spells, and was especially impressed with the south stand, the largest of its kind in England. When asked about the atmosphere, he said:

"In terms of atmosphere, yeah. You can see it tonight, the atmosphere was fantastic.

"It's certainly a historic moment for Tottenham Hotspur and it's a credit to everyone at the club, certainly that big wall at the back there will put shivers down their spine."

David Howells - A 13-year veteran

Howells, at the age of 51, completed the entire 90 minutes against Inter, having played as a midfielder for the club between 1985 and 1998, and believes Spurs have replicated the feel of the old White Hart Lane, claiming:

"The first thing I noticed was the noise. When we went out, the crowd, just when they were cheering the names as they were read out, it was 'oh my god, that is noisy'. We all noticed it.

"It feels like home, it really does, I know it's brand new and the standard of the whole building is absolutely phenomenal but it feels like home, it feels like you've come home, which is amazing. I suppose because the journey's the same, we're in the same area, but it does still have that feeling."

Dimitar Berbatov - Former striker

Dimitar Berbatov header for Tottenham legends

Berbatov played for the club between 2006 and 2008 before earning a major move to Manchester United and was impressed with the facilities in north London, saying:

"It's going to be a big step to getting Tottenham even bigger, in the world, as a club. They have everything now.

"I think this is one of the best stadiums I've been in, if not the best one. So now it's down to them to show on the pitch how good they are."