Jonathan Woodgate hopes his Carling Cup winner against Chelsea will be the starting point of a glorious era for Tottenham under Juande Ramos.Ramos won consecutive UEFA Cups and the Copa del Rey in two seasons at Sevilla before coming to England, and has now ended Spurs' trophy drought within four months of taking over at White Hart Lane.
"Hopefully we can push on from this next year," said Woodgate. "I came to Tottenham to win trophies and I have done that. Hopefully it is not going to be the last one."
Spurs started brightly at Wembley but fell behind to Didier Drogba's opener, a free-kick that wrong-footed a poorly-positioned Paul Robinson.
Ramos changed Spurs' shape in the second half, playing three in defence at one stage after taking off Pascal Chimbonda for Tom Huddlestone, and the equaliser came with 20 minutes remaining.
Assistant referee Martin Yerby flagged for a handball by Wayne Bridge and Dimitar Berbatov sent Petr Cech the wrong way from the penalty spot, taking the match into extra-time.
Woodgate's winner came in the fourth minute of the extra 30, his initial header from Jermaine Jenas' free-kick getting saved by Cech but the rebound bouncing off the Spurs defender and over the line.
"To be honest with you I wasn't planning on going up," added Woodgate. "It was either me or Ledley King going up to see what we could cause.
"JJ put a great ball in and I just took a chance."
Skipper King lifted the trophy with Robbie Keane, who stood in as captain when King was out recovering from knee surgery - then the partying started.
Berbatov missed the dressing-room celebrations as he was getting drug tested, but was then allowed his champagne despite Ramos' diet demands on his squad that encourages teetotalism.
"It is not a particularly strict diet," said Ramos. "It is quite a nice diet. Sometimes it allows them to eat and drink totally out of control."
Ramos has taken the credit for turning results around after the disastrous start the season under Martin Jol
"It is always tremendously satisfying to win a trophy," the Spaniard said.
"This one maybe has a special flavour because it was against a team which was supposedly superior to us, similar to when Sevilla played against Barcelona and Real Madrid.
"Perhaps it makes the whole thing taste better. This has been a unique experience and one we hope to repeat."
Chairman Daniel Levy spoke afterwards, praising the work of his head coach.
"We have a very good manager and he proved it yesterday," said Levy.
Skipper King was determined to erase the memory of the 2002 final when he was in the team that lost to Blackburn.
"Its amazing. It's been a long time to get here - too long. The only other time we got to a final we lost and we didn't want that to happen today," King told Sky Sports 1.
"You saw the commitment levels from the players today and we showed we're a good team when we got going.
"We have some good players here and hopefully we can use this win and move forward."
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