Manchester United captain Gary Neville is delighted to see Tottenham qualify for the Champions League.
Spurs achieved qualification by beating United's bitter rivals Manchester City last week.
Neville wrote in his column for the Sunday Times of Malta: "I watched the crunch game for a Champions League qualification place between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur last Wednesday and thought it was a great performance from Spurs; they fully deserved their victory.
"It is a great achievement for them to overcome the spending power of Manchester City, a big club like Liverpool, and a team with quality players like Aston Villa. They have done it the right way, playing good football and putting in some outstanding performances in the last few weeks. They've beaten Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City away recently, and if a team gets results like that in the run-in they deserve the rewards.
"I don't think anyone expected Spurs to qualify for the Champions League at the beginning of the season, but it went down to the wire and Spurs hit form at exactly the right time, while other teams fell away.
"The Champions League is definitely a step up in class for teams who haven't played in it before. Everton qualified for it in 2005 through fourth spot, but they got drawn against Villarreal in the qualifying round and were beaten.
"No one wants to draw a Spanish team and there are other good teams in the qualifying rounds, so Spurs will know there is no guarantee they will get to the group stages if they finish fourth. But they have an opportunity and they can strengthen over the summer, so they have a great chance of making the group stages."
