Sports nuts who like to get up early to watch men in shorts run around after a ball may well be punching the air right about now.
Lucas Moura (a football/soccer player depending on where you come from) scored a winner in the dying minutes to seal a sensational 3-2 comeback win for Tottenham Hotspur to take them past Ajax Amsterdam on the away goals rule into the Champions League final.
Feeling awake?
I'm certainly struggling this morning, but our morning homepage editor and resident clue writer says that today's nine-letter word offers a bit extra.
We'll print the names of the first readers with the correct answer before 9am.
Good luck!
More on that fatal hit-run at St Albans last night.
The driver behind a hit-run that killed an elderly man in Melbourne's north-west would have "no doubt" they struck a person, police say.
A 78-year-old man died after being hit by a car at the corner of Main Road East and Erica Avenue in St Albans about 9pm on Wednesday.
Senior Constable Adam West said police believe the driver would have "no doubt at all they'd struck a pedestrian" and the car would have "significant damage".
The car did not stop and is yet to be found.
Read more from our breaking news reporters Rachel Eddie and Simone Fox Koob.
In good news for commuters, police have caught up with the trespassers in the City Loop.
All City Loop trains were halted early this morning after a driver first reported a trespasser at 5.56am. Trains were sent direct to Flinders St while police investigated.
Officers found the trespassers near Parliament station at 6.36am, and trains have now resumed, albeit slowly.
While the major delays have cleared, there may still be some delays heading into the morning peak.
Metro Trains spokesman James Ireland said while trains were commonly delayed by trespassers, it was less usual for them to get into the City Loop.
The Metro Trains site isn't looking great this morning.
Train are not running through the City Loop. Trespassers are reportedly to blame.
The good run on the trains this morning has come to a screeching halt.
All City Loop trains will run direct to Flinders St "until further notice".
Metro is reporting that trespassers in the City Loop are to blame for the disruption.
We'll bring you more as we hear it.
Baby Sussex has a name, and it took almost everybody by surprise: Archie Harrison, reports our Europe correspondent Nick Miller.
Or, to give him his full title, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
After taking their two-day-old son to meet the Queen at Windsor Castle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made the announcement everyone had been waiting for.
Archie was not on any of the predictive lists of royal watchers or bookmakers, who had been throwing around establishment favourites such as Alexander, James, Arthur, Albert or Spencer.
According to media reports, the Queen did not bestow a royal title on Archie – most likely at his parents’ request.
Here's how The Age looks today in print:
In other news, police are also looking for a white Mercedes after it was stolen from an Altona storage yard.
Police believe three people entered the yard on Kororoit Creek Road on Monday about 6.40am.
It is believed one stolen Mercedes was used to force open the gate but that car was found nearby within 20 minutes.
A second Mercedes was last seen on the Tulla just past the Moreland Road exit about 7.50pm yesterday.
Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.