Jose Mourinho has waited all season for Gareth Bale to make a difference at Tottenham. Finally, and just when he needed the on-loan Real Madrid wide man to deliver, Bale showed he is still a force to be reckoned with by rolling back the years to inspire a 4-0 victory against Burnley.
Spurs had lost five of their past six Premier League games prior to this fixture, and although Mourinho's job wasn't under immediate threat, the Portuguese could not afford another loss to crank up the pressure. Mourinho needed a win, and there is some irony in the fact that it was orchestrated by Bale, the player who has disappointed him so much this season that he has prompted the kind of public criticism from his manager that only tends to come from Mourinho when everything else around him is beginning to unravel.