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The tale of Tottenham Hotspur's extraordinary run to the 2019 Champions League Final in Madrid. Authors Alex Fynn and Martin Cloake examine how Spurs confounded all predictions to enjoy their most successful ever CL campaign - and what it means for the future. They explain why a certain style of football and competing in Europe are central to the club's identity, and look at how manager Mauricio Pochettino drew on these traditions to create a very modern success story. Using match reports from national newspapers to provide the narrative thread, Fynn and Cloake draw on their football backgrounds to explain why this campaign so fired the imagination - in a season with no signings, played mostly without a home stadium. With a rich cast of characters and locations ranging from Eindhoven to Madrid via Barcelona and Dortmund - and one emotional night in Amsterdam - One Step from Glory tells the story of a football odyssey.

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	16 septembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781785316159
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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First published by Pitch Publishing, 2019
Pitch Publishing
A2 Yeoman Gate
Yeoman Way
Durrington
BN13 3QZ
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
Martin Cloake and Alex Fynn, 2019
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Memories are made of this
1. The Spurs Way
2. Those Glory Glory Nights
3. He s magic, you know
4. Inter Milan v Tottenham Hotspur, 18 September 2018
5. Tottenham Hotspur v Barcelona, 3 October 2018
6. PSV Eindhoven v Tottenham Hotspur, 24 October 2018
7. Tottenham Hotspur v PSV Eindhoven, 6 November 2018
8. Tottenham Hotspur v Inter Milan, 28 November 2018
9. Barcelona v Tottenham Hotspur, 11 December 2018
10. Tottenham Hotspur v Borussia Dortmund, 13 February 2019
11. Borussia Dortmund v Tottenham Hotspur, 5 March 2019
12. Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City, 9 April 2019
13. Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur, 17 April 2019
14. Tottenham Hotspur v Ajax, 30 April 2019
15. Ajax v Tottenham Hotspur, 8 May 2019
16. Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool, 1 June 2019
17. Marching on
18. One Step from Glory
Postscript: New Steps to Glory?
As a director of Saatchi Saatchi, Alex Fynn helped create the first advertising campaign for a football club, for Tottenham Hotspur, back in the 1980s. He subsequently advised the FA, the Football League and several Premier League clubs on media and marketing. This is his fourth book on Spurs.
Martin Cloake has supported Spurs since the early 1970s and has travelled all over Britain and Europe to watch the team. A writer and editor, he has co-authored six previous books on the club, including two award-winning official publications.
Also by Alex Fynn
(with Lynton Guest) The Secret Life of Football , Heroes Villains , Out of Time , and For Love or Money
(with H Davidson) Dream On
(with Olivia Blair) The Great Divide
(with Eric Cantona) Cantona on Cantona
(with Kevin Whitcher) The Glorious Game , Ars nal: The Making of a Modern Superclub and Ars ne and Arsenal
Also by Martin Cloake
(with Adam Powley) We Are Tottenham and The Boys from White Hart Lane
(with Adam Powley and Doug Cheeseman) 61: The Spurs Double , The Glory Glory Nights and The Lane )
(with Alan Fisher) A People s History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
In memory of Ralph L. Finn, Tony Fuller and Daniel Stern Miss you most at times like this
Acknowledgements
IT WILL be obvious that this book could not have transpired without the help of many people, so first and foremost in the queue for thanks is Jane Camillin without whose enthusiastic backing there simply would not have been a book. So heartfelt thanks to her and to Katrina Law, Alan Fisher, Bernie Kingsley and David Stern, Spurs stalwarts who kindly read the manuscript, pointed out errors - any that remain are entirely our fault - and made suggestions, the majority of which were adopted to the benefit of the manuscript.
Grateful thanks are due to Duncan Olner for his eye-catching cover design, to Dean Rockett for his skilful copy-editing and to Graham Hales, typesetter par excellent. Greville Waterman was a constant source of support as was Rhoda Fynn, who compensated for her husband s lack of computer skills. The understanding of Cath Mackenzie, Danny and Tom Cloake was increasingly essential as deadlines drew near. Thanks are also due to Adam Powley and Michael Green, as they are to all the fans who have enriched the writers matchday experience in a most momentous season.
Match reports from The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and The Independent provide the underlying theme so permission for their use was a prerequisite. So thanks for granting this to Ruth Marsh at The Telegraph, Nick Shackleford and Andrew Pulver at The Guardian, Bill Burrows and Miguel Delaney at The Independent, and Tim Hallissey, Robin Ashton and Marc Cutler at The Times . And to those reporters whose skill in producing 700-plus words of instant insight and analysis against such tight deadlines never ceases to amaze. So thanks to Sam Wallace and Matt Law ( The Telegraph), Daniel Taylor and David Hytner ( The Guardian ), Miguel Delaney ( The Independent ), Henry Winter and Alyson Rudd ( The Times).
The authors and publisher would like to thank Getty Images for permission to reproduce the photographs in this book.
Introduction: Memories are made of this
IN 1961 to commemorate Spurs Double-winning season, Ralph L. Finn wrote Spurs Supreme , modestly sub-titled, A review of soccer s greatest ever side 1960-61 . It became former Spurs chairman Irving Scholar s favourite book. As he explained, it recorded every game played that season by way of re-printing at least one newspaper report. I must have read it at least 50 times over, never tiring of its content.
Back then, very few matches were broadcast on black and white television ( Match of the Day s highlights first began in the London area on BBC2 in 1964). So match reports in the daily and Sunday newspapers supplemented by the occasional second half radio commentary and Sports Report on the BBC Light programme were the chief means of finding out in detail how your team fared. Today of course, all major matches are available instantly on pay television, internet and your phone, giving rise to immediate debate on Twitter, Instagram and radio phone-ins. The omnipresence of information notwithstanding, newspaper reports still provide an essential service for the football supporter: articulate, sometimes eloquent reporting and analysis viewed through an expert eye providing an authoritative and objective permanent record of key events.
Match reports taken from the Telegraph , Guardian , Times and Independent provide the narrative thread for One Step from Glory ; a comprehensive account of Spurs most successful season in European football s premier club competition.
If we are not in Europe, we are nothing , said Bill Nicholson, the club s most successful manager. Spurs and Europe is an ongoing love affair encapsulated by those glory, glory nights at White Hart Lane under floodlights against continental opposition which has defined Spurs. And that love affair has been rekindled in earnest in 2019.
Of course, the last chapter could so easily have had a Hollywood ending but as Danny Blanchflower, the captain of Spurs Double-winning side, memorably said, Football is not really about winning or goals or saves or supporters it s about glory. It s about doing things in style, doing them with a flourish; it s about going out to beat the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom; it s about dreaming of the glory that the Double brought. This is why the Spurs 2018/19 Champions League campaign - so unexpected, so unimaginable, the most improbable of dreams - touched the heart of every Tottenham Hotspur supporter and gave so much pleasure to the many millions of followers of the glory game.
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The Spurs Way
THE SPURS Way is not the name of a road leading to the new stadium, but it is a route that will run through this story. It is central to the identity of Tottenham Hotspur FC and understanding it is the key to achieving any kind of success at Spurs.
One of the enduring attractions of the game is that, despite the increasing application of science, outcomes often defy rational analysis. The Spurs Way is a romantic concept in a hard-headed world and is part of what enables football to stay a sport, rather than a manifestation of statistics. As Danny Blanchflower, the captain of Tottenham Hotspur s 1961 Double-winning team, once said when asked who would win a match he was co-commentating on: I don t know, that s why they re playing the game. If we know who is going to win, what is the attraction of watching? If the club that has the most money, that pays the highest wages, that accumulates what are statistically proven to be the best players is guaranteed victory, football is no longer a sport.
In the football business of 2018/19, Tottenham Hotspur s appearance in the Champions League Final was not meant to happen. And it caught the imagination for precisely that reason. It was the product of a remarkable revival in fortune, and of a rediscovery and redeployment of the Spurs Way. It signalled that, as the Spurs went marching on, the soul of football was not a-mouldering in the grave.
If you think there is a danger of overplaying the importance of character and identity to a football club, set Spurs aside for a moment and consider the fortunes of Manchester United under Jos Mourinho. One of the most successful managers of the modern era - the only one who has won the Champions League with three different clubs - Mourinho ultimately failed at Old Trafford for a number of reasons, among them, perhaps, because he did not understand or value the club s character. Manchester United lost their way, supporters and club lost their connection, players lost that extra bit of heart that comes from drawing on characteristics rooted deep in a club s DNA. Fanciful nonsense? In the end, it s a subjective judgement, but Spurs European adventure in 2018/19 is the tale of a club rediscovering its sense of identity, reconnecting with a past - one which it is often criticised for clutching too closely to its heart - in order to create a new present and, maybe, a gl