![]() The sun rose again as that same maligned Burkinshaw built an exciting team around the young Glenn Hoddle and World Cup-winning duo Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa. But, as in Wagner's Ring, there was also a renaissance. This book explores Tottenham's place in that unfolding drama, the club's own G tterd mmerung. The defining images of the decade were violent ones, both on and off the terraces. Social and economic malaise both informed and fed off a blooming culture of football hooliganism. Nicholson's exit, the loss of legendary players and the club's eventual relegation all took place during a defining decade for British sport, painted against a backdrop of dramatic change for society at large. ![]() From the 'team of the century' to relegation, from Feyenoord to Field Mill, from trophies under the iconic Bill Nicholson to relegation under former Zambia coach Keith Burkinshaw - all in a little over three years.
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