Postby Rayge » 06 Sep 2017, 14:06
Arthur Rowe taking Spurs up to the top division as champions and winning the title the following year with a squad containing no established internationals playing a style he invented (dubbed Push and Run) that was completely new to British football and was the English's introduction to what is now known as the passing game – basicaly it involved use of the wall pass rather than dribbling to beat opponents, and fluid inter-changing of positions.
And one of the members of Rowe's team, Bill Nicholson, took an underperforming London club from 18th when he took over to double winners (using just 17 players, three of them only once) in just two years, setting a new league points and goal-scoring record and not conceding a goal in the cup, reached the semi-finals of the European Cup where they were cheated out of the final vs Real Madrid that everyone was looking forward to by ridiculous linesman in the first leg, winning Britain's first European trophy in 1963, going on to gather two more cups, two league cups and another European trophy. Seemed like quite a transformation to me, both of them.
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