One Step from Glory

Tottenham's 2018/19 Champions League

Martin Cloake, Alex Fynn

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785316159
• Year: 2019

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 backgrounds in football business and politics 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, insight from leading football figures 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• 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?
• Photos