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Today marks a year since the greatest night in Tottenham's modern history and one of the most dramatic moments ever in the Champions League.

The night when Lucas Moura's stoppage-time winner broke Ajax's hearts and secured Tottenham a place in the Champions League final.

Here is the full story of that night, told by those who were there.

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Dele Alli, Tottenham attacking midfielder

Danny Rose, Tottenham left-back

Nicolas Tagliafico, Ajax left-back

Michel Vorm, Tottenham reserve goalkeeper

Gary Lineker, BT Sport presenter and Tottenham legend

Ross Johnston, Tottenham Hotspur lead first team and opposition performance analyst

Des Kelly, BT Sport senior reporter

Hannah Sheridan, Tottenham Hotspur lead nutritionist

Darren Fletcher, BT Sport commentator

Arthur Quesada, International correspondent for Brazilian TV channel Esporte Interativo

Paul Miles, Tottenham Hotspur senior club journalist

Adam Nathan, Tottenham season ticket holder for 26 years

On Tuesday May 7 2019, the day before their Champions League semi-final against Ajax, Tottenham fly to Amsterdam.

Having lost the first leg at home 1-0 and without their talisman and top scorer Harry Kane, the odds are stacked against them.

Hannah Sheridan: "There was definitely a mood of excitement the night before the game.

After dinner we all sat round and watched the Liverpool v Barca match, and they had a massive task in front of them and what they did was absolutely unbelievable.

So everyone went to bed believing that anything was possible.

"The room we had was huge, the mood was good, everyone was positive.

You could sense some nerves but it was mainly excitement."

Danny Rose: "I did feel as if the Ajax players were very arrogant.

The manager was very arrogant.

Some of the comments that he made before the second leg.

He was talking as if the game had already been put to bed.

I was very disappointed with Ruud Gullit as well.

He was very critical of myself and some of the other players, saying that we weren't technically very good."

Darren Fletcher: "I remember on the afternoon of the match, I spoke to my wife and she asked me what I thought the game would be like.

I'd commentated on the Liverpool win over Barcelona the previous evening and said: 'It won't be anything like last night.It can't be.'"Advertisement

Ross Johnston: "Everyone was quite calm on the day of the game but there was massive disappointment and frustration at how we played in the first leg, a real feeling that we didn't do ourselves justice with our performance - especially in the first 30 minutes.

We felt we let ourselves down with some of the basics - our energy, our intensity.

"We started the first leg with a back five and changed to a back four.

We played a lot better after the change in formation and we had equal possession, more chances than them.

So in preparation for the second leg we knew we were playing with a back four, and we knew certain situations we wanted to take advantage of.

Everyone was singing Ajax's praises but we knew the game was completely open."

Hannah Sheridan: "Champions League days are quite long.

You're getting up for breakfast and then lunch and then there's still a long wait before the game starts.

You could sense some nerves because we hadn't got to that stage before.

We had the pre-match meal at the hotel at 6pm, three hours before kick-off.

It's always the same, and an amalgamation of breakfast options, lunch and dinner in one because they all want different things."

Ross Johnston: "At around 6.

45pm at the hotel we had the team meeting, which under Mauricio (Pochettino) would normally last about 10-12 minutes and was when the team was announced.

We did a normal set-piece video and did a very brief open-play video.

I prepared a normal video, which was about eight minutes in length but what we ended up showing was only about one minute, just some key things.

A lot of the team talk in the meeting before that game was very psychological, inspirational, with much less video than what we would normally show.

"The team meeting length itself was still the normal length but Mauricio spoke for so long - he was very calm, reassuring and he wrote a few quotes up on the whiteboard and they really stayed with us.

I remember taking that sheet of paper down from the whiteboard and after the game we were looking at it back and he still had it in his office until he left.

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"The key message was that we'd been on this big journey over the last five years and everything we'd done had got us to this point.

The message was not to overload the players with tactics and detail, more to enjoy this moment.This is your craft.

This is what you've worked for.

At the end of the meeting we just wanted to play the game straight away."

Darren Fletcher: "Walking to the ground there was a riot outside the stadium.

It was like going back to the 80s, flares going off, groups of extremely aggressive supporters.

The atmosphere in the stadium was very special - very noisy, very colourful.Everyone was there.

If you were an Ajax player of any significance you'd be invited that night."

Hannah Sheridan: "A group of us went early to make sure everything was immaculately prepared.

When the players got there everyone was in a good mood and there was music on.

Apart from a few players reporting tired and asking for extra caffeine, there was nothing that was different to normal.

Everyone was trying to remain focused and not get too nervous or over-excited about the challenge."

Dele Alli: "By the time we had arrived we had done all of the necessary prep.

The majority of our talk was around staying calm and focused."

Ross Johnston: "As you get closer to kick-off, concentration goes up and up and it's game time from the minute you step off the coach.

We were very focused and confident, we knew how good we were.

Belief was such a big word that was used throughout Mauricio's time and we had that belief."

Michel Vorm: "Coming from Holland and coming through the Utrecht academy obviously I knew all about Ajax.

And we all knew how good they were.

"But we had everything to play for.

I knew that when you fight, most of their guys physically are not as strong as us, and I knew if we could get at them, they wouldn't like it.

If you let them play then they're a very good team.

I said that to the players, individually as well."Advertisement

Nicolas Tagliafico: "Before the game it was about maintaining the same intensity that we had had throughout that whole Champions League campaign.

'We're one goal up, an away goal, we're playing on our pitch, with our fans, we're one step from the final', so our hopes and desires were always the same.

We knew from the start that it was going to be a very, very difficult game, even more difficult than in England.

So we went into the game determined from the first minute.

Hannah Sheridan: "There was no negative energy.

Harry was injured still but he'd travelled with us so he was there and there are always a few players saying motivational words, Harry, Rose, Jan (Vertonghen).

'This is our one chance, we've got nothing to lose, let's just give it absolutely everything.

Be on it from the start.

' Which we obviously weren't.

"It was all positive words, and I think it had a big impact Harry being there.

We'll all go in a huddle and Hugo, as captain, will lead the talk.

The message that night was similar: 'We've never been here before, this is our one shot, let's not throw it away.'

"And Poch did a talk before that.

Often he wouldn't, he would just leave it to the captain, but that night he did.

And it was quite emotional actually.

He said that this is his absolute dream to reach this stage, and he'd never done it before.

So come on we need to do this - there's nothing stopping us now.

He was saying what a great team we were.

I remember feeling emotional."

Adam Nathan: "I don't think the mood amongst our fans wavered too much from the general doom-and-gloom expectancy that Spurs fans have, until five minutes before kick-off when you're suddenly sure you're going to win."

After just five minutes, Matthijs de Ligt scores a header from a corner to put Ajax 1-0 up on the night and 2-0 up on aggregate.

Nicolas Tagliafico: "When we scored the first goal I felt that there was a lot of euphoria, not just us but the fans too.

We felt that we were playing well, and had started better than any other game in the competition, with this desire, this intensity.

In other games we started well, but did not score first.

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"This time it was the opposite, so when we scored the first we already wanted a second.

After the first goal we went for the second and we were thinking that we were better, we were very strong and that if we carry on we would get through to the final."

Adam Nathan: "All that optimism just before kick-off goes straight out the window when you concede a goal after five minutes from a stupid corner.

That's the way to kill the atmosphere when you're already 1-0 down and their fans are well up for it."

Hakim Ziyech makes it 2-0 on the night and 3-0 on aggregate with a whipped left-footed strike into the far corner.

Nicolas Tagliafico: "When we scored to make it 2-0 we were not thinking about the final.

But we knew that at 2-0 they had to score three goals and that continuing with that intensity would be very difficult."

Dele Alli: "It wasn't nice, the thought of coming as far as we did and being knocked out was terrible but I always believed we could bring it back."

Darren Fletcher: "When Spurs went 2-0 down on the night and 3-0 on aggregate, you're kind of planning for the second half and trying to make it as pleasant as you can, bearing in mind that you've got a lot of Spurs supporters watching."

Paul Miles: "I was writing the match report for the Tottenham website and was 100 per cent thinking the dream may be over.

I'm thinking: keep it respectable lads, come out in the second half, have a go, score a goal, walk away with your heads held high.

Don't make it a bad one.

That's what I was praying for."

Ross Johnston: "I'm sat high up in the stadium near the gantry with an unrestricted view of the game and my focus always needs to be on the game itself.

Are they doing something we weren't expecting or are we suffering in a particular phase of our play?

"We conceded early that night from a set-piece but we were much happier with our performance level apart from a few isolated incidents."

Tottenham create chances in the first half but go in at half-time trailing 2-0 on the night, 3-0 on aggregate.

Ross Johnston: "I got to the dressing room just before the manager arrived and set up in a private coaches' office.

Then the coaches came in and left the players alone for five minutes to vent their frustrations - one of Mauricio's coaching staff would always have an ear to that and see what's going on and report that back to the manager.

But we had five or six minutes to try to be as efficient as possible to look at the gameplan, look at what was working, look at what had changed."

Hannah Sheridan: "I can remember the players coming in really angry, and then H (Kane) walked in and said, 'it's not good enough and we have to turn it around.But it's not over.'

"He gave some tips on what we'd seen tactically but was saying, 'this isn't impossible.

We need to keep going.

' And I'm sure Liverpool was referenced in there somewhere.

'Look what they did last night, it's not over, we've still got 45 minutes'."

Danny Rose: "The manager very rarely lost his temper at half-time, he was always very calm.

He was very calm again that evening.

He just said the next goal is going to be crucial.

I did feel as if it was maybe a bit too far for us.

He was right though and we carried on playing.

"He showed us clips of what we could do to exploit Ajax.

And he explained how we could do it on a tactics board.

He was very, very calm.

We, as players, said what we should be doing better on the pitch.A few people spoke.

We all had our opinions and we managed to put that right in the second half."

Ross Johnston: "There weren't too many corrections to the system needed.

Ajax, like us, wanted the ball.

So when we had the ball they would come to press high, so our transfer from the first phase of play when we played through pressure to the second phase needed to be a bit stronger to take advantage of our good play in the first phase."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "I felt that we were playing very well and that we were going to get to the final.

But there were also some worries because at half-time we knew that they needed three goals and they would come at us with everything.

And the big problem we had was that we were not good at closing games out.

We had never gone into a game thinking: 'OK, we're going to defend.

' At Ajax it doesn't feel natural for us to defend.

"So I think we were wrong in that.

We should have been a bit more calm and that, with the changes they made.

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well afterwards we all know how the result ended up for us."

Ross Johnston: "The biggest thing for us was the injury to (Victor) Wanyama and the introduction of (Fernando) Llorente, and how that impacted the rest of the team.

The idea was that we would move Christian Eriksen a bit deeper to make that connection between the first and second phase a bit better.

"And then to accommodate Fernando as a focal point, it allowed us to go a little bit more direct with our passes sometimes to skip the pressure.

And it freed up Lucas to attack from deeper positions and make runs from deeper where he wasn't a reference for their defenders.

They were little, subtle changes to reinforce the message that we were happy with the performance.

Ultimately the message was: keep going, keep believing.

Forget the score: it's 0-0."

Dele Alli: "We were told to believe and stick to the game plan as much as we could.

Everyone remained calm and tried to stay as positive as possible.

We knew we had to give everything we possibly could in those 45 minutes."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "We said we wanted to keep going the same way, we were happier, there was more euphoria, more joy, but we wanted to try to focus.

'There are 45 minutes to go, keep going, keep going, keep going, we have control of the game, keep doing what we've done from the start, try to score from the start.

' That's what we were thinking."

Hannah Sheridan: "Lucas had one of the last words before we went out.

Lucas is always very positive, always believes anything is possible so he was definitely saying things.

Patting them on the back, saying: 'Chin up guys, we've got this.

' He never gives up until it's over - as it showed - he's a brilliant part of that team."

Danny Rose: "The Ajax players thought that the game was finished.

If you look at half-time, we came out when the referee told us to come out.

And Ajax made us wait for a good two or three minutes.It was arrogance.

They thought the game was put to bed.

"We proved them wrong.

We knew they were going to blow up and they needed to score that third goal on the night to put us away.

I remember them hitting the post in the second half.

They weren't able to do that.

There's nothing wrong with arrogance, by the way, but when it doesn't work, and it goes against you, it makes you look a bit silly."

Darren Fletcher: "At half-time they started playing 'Don't Worry About A Thing' (Three Little Birds) by Bob Marley on the PA, and it didn't stop when the players came out.

It carried on for about 10 minutes in the second half, and on the big screen the director would cut to an Ajax legend in the crowd singing this song.

It dawned on me that there was still 35 minutes to play, and that they might actually be jumping the gun."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "The Bob Marley song? Yes, whenever the team comes out on to the pitch they sing it, it's like the anthem.

It's very beautiful because it relaxes you.

When you're coming out you know that the team is good, everything is in order, everything is calm, the fans are also on our wavelength.

They sing that song and it's very good, they always sing it at half-time.

"They always do it at every game.

So no (it was not tempting fate)."

Darren Fletcher: "At half-time it absolutely felt like they thought they were through.They were there.

The conversations around us in English were all about how excited the fans were to be going to the final and playing Liverpool.

"I didn't say anything in the commentary but it just dawned on me: would the complacency in the stadium have any effect on the Ajax players? Would it just knock them down by five per cent?"

Lucas Moura scores in the 55th and 59th minutes to make it 2-2 on the night, with Spurs just a goal away from leading the tie on away goals.

In the build-up to the first goal, Rose nutmegs De Ligt.

Adam Nathan: "We started the second half well but when Dele had a chance saved in the 53rd minute I absolutely lost it.

It was the first time me and my dad had ever had an argument at a game.

He was telling me to support the team but at that point I'd lost all hope.

"As a Spurs fan, your life is dictated by thinking, what if that had gone in or that hadn't happened and I just thought this was going to be another what-if moment.

And it all just collapsed around me."

Danny Rose: "It was a bit of a risk (nutmegging De Ligt in the lead-up to Moura's first goal).

It was literally something I just thought to do at the very last second.

Mauricio is somebody who wants you to do things like that, no matter what the score is.

When it comes off he'll applaud you for it, if it doesn't come off he'll give you the confidence to try it again.

It was something I wasn't scared of trying, but it wasn't something I thought I was going to do when I got the ball.

I did it, and the next day the manager replayed it in his office, and he asked me if I meant to do it as well.

Luckily it went to Dele, and then he slipped Lucas through.

It was a very good team goal."

Tagliafico: "I remember their first goal we were attacking and were a little unbalanced.

And when that ball was played into the middle of the pitch it was bouncing between me and Lucas.

I tried to slide in and cut it out straight away, so he couldn't advance, to cut out the ball so the attack ended right there.

But he got there before me.

"Two-one was a blow for us and we knew that this isn't over yet and that we would at least have to keep the ball, or even score again, and that's how it was."

Darren Fletcher: "When Moura scored the first the atmosphere dipped, and for the first time that night you could hear the Tottenham fans.

And I said, 'that will have a positive effect on the Tottenham players.'"

Dele Alli: "As soon as Lucas scored I knew we had a chance, anything can happen in football and I had great belief we could bring it back."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "Lucas scoring to make it 2-2 hit us hard and the fans.

It was hard, because with that kind of advantage and for them to equalise.

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but we knew that we still had the advantage (lead on aggregate), and that we could score again."

Danny Rose: "If you see Lucas' second goal, he's had to score that through three or four bodies.

With his left foot as well.

That sort of goal, you just think, maybe it could be our night."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "As soon as they equalised we saw that the game had been taken out of our hands and it was either you win or you lose, score a goal or don't score."

Danny Rose: "It was fitness, without a doubt.

Even in the first game, they started unbelievably well and we were very, very poor.

But in the last half hour of that first game they blew up.

Obviously we didn't expect to be 2-0 down in the away game, but we just knew it was a matter of time before they blew up.

And they blew up again.

They were shot after 60 minutes and we were just getting into our stride.

They were one of the best footballing passing teams I've played against.

But physically, we were far, far superior."

Paul Miles: "We got absolutely soaked when the second goal went in.

Beer went everywhere, I had to close my laptop.

We had sticky fingers trying to write."

Danny Rose: "I was playing on the side of the manager.

So whenever he's got instructions for the team, he'd normally tell me to pass them on.

Seeing his positive energy on the side, it fed on to us.

The last 30 minutes, we knew we were going to get chances.

It was just about being clinical."

Darren Fletcher: "In the 79th minute, Ziyech hit the post and I said in commentary something like, 'You start to wonder if it's going to be Tottenham's night.'

"I did have that feeling because you start to get a sense, you can feel it.

The Johan Cruyff Arena is one of those stadiums where you can't hide your emotions - it's very steep and compact and everyone's on top of everybody else so mood on a night like that really transfers itself."

When Jan Vertonghen hits the bar in the 87th minute, it appears that Spurs' chance has gone.

Danny Rose: "After that I thought, that's it, we might not get another chance.

I'd had to go off with an injury and from the bench you could see the Ajax goalkeeper was taking his time with goal kicks.

You could tell from his body language he thought the game was over.

But we managed to get one more chance."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "I was at the back post, and I said, 'That's it, if that ball didn't go in that match is going finish like this, and we're going through to the final.

' The goal was closed, that was my thinking with five minutes to go, with all the euphoria and all the feelings that it brings.

I thought, 'it has to finish like this.'"

Paul Miles: "When Vertonghen hit the bar I started writing the intro to my report.

It was along the lines of: our brave run in the Champions League has finally come to an end, and the lads have gone out with their heads held high, fighting."

As the clock ticks beyond the five minutes of additional time, Lucas Moura completes his hat-trick to put Spurs ahead on away goals.

Danny Rose: "Being on the bench and not being in control, I don't know how managers can do it for 90 minutes through the course of a season, relying on other people to do things.

When I'm on the bench, I sort of feel that I can't have an input or a say on what goes on on the pitch.

The last 10 minutes were, honestly, the longest 10 minutes I've ever had in football.

"What Lucas did.

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it was just brilliant, amazing.

It was a brilliant through-ball from Dele, and again it's on Lucas' left foot, so you're just hoping he gets it on target.

It's a brilliant finish considering the circumstances.

On your weaker foot, probably the last kick of the game, to get us into the final.

He was so calm and collected.

Time just stood still for probably five seconds, it's gone in, and we've all erupted on the bench."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "In that moment it was like I couldn't breathe.

If something had been a little more to the left or a little more to the right.

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"If I think about the goal from the start of the move, it's a long ball forward, I don't remember who it was now but he headed it backwards, then a rebound where we couldn't clear it, somebody tried to recover it but I don't know if it was Dele Alli or somebody but he ended up playing it forward.

Then me and Lucas Moura, and the other side I think it was Matthijs De Ligt and we almost ran into each other."

Darren Fletcher: "When it comes to Dele Alli you want a big player to do something in the biggest moments.

And he managed to control the ball and get it to Lucas Moura.Incredible.

And I don't think enough is made of that because of the pandemonium after, but that was top class."

Dele Alli: "What's my memory of that? Not much! Everything I do is completely instinctive in football.

I can remember praying he would finish it."

Danny Rose: "I was just over the moon for Lucas.

He's probably the nicest man I've ever come across in football.

A really great professional.

How he is as a person, it's exactly what he deserved."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "Lucas Moura, without looking, without thinking, hit that great left-footed shot.

For me, I don't even know if the ball goes through my legs, or goes past my right foot.

I think De Ligt was only able to touch the ball a little and it created a perfect route for the ball where I don't know if the goalkeeper had his vision blocked, or if the flick made the ball go faster, so it was all about small details.

"If the ball had landed here, if it had touched me, I don't know, any little thing would've changed history.

So agonising, with no explanation."

Gary Lineker: "We obviously just leaped up, we were going bonkers.

And then the realisation that Glenn (Hoddle, a Tottenham legend who had undergone heart surgery six months earlier) was up, and I think Rio (Ferdinand) accidentally hit him in his celebration.

Rio went: 'Are you OK, Glenn?' and then we thought: 'Oh blimey, the heart, it's the ultimate test.'

"And we were just saying.

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'calm down Glenn, sit yourself down.

' He was fine, obviously.He was elated.

But there was a moment where we all thought, 'hang on a minute, this is probably not what you need, a few months after major heart surgery.'"

Nicolas Tagliafico: "When I saw it went in, everything became silent, it was the end, it was like, 'It can't be.

This can't be happening.

' So close and so far, all inside a few seconds.It's crazy.

"The air inside the stadium became a little denser, because everything went silent and we just thought this can't be happening, it's a nightmare.

To have everything there, so close, and to lose it so easily, such a disappointment, you can't be so silly, you don't think so far in the moment.

You just think that's it, that's it, we lost, it can't be, it's madness.

They are very powerful moments.

Darren Fletcher: "As a commentator, your first thought is: 'don't balls it up.

This is your big moment.'

"Second thing you think is 'have I got any voice left after last night?' I was told once that you've never seen the most dramatic goal you've ever seen, so always think, whatever goal you're commentating on, there will be a moment where you need to give a little bit more.

And that was Martin Tyler for Manchester City with Aguero - Martin's not going to get another moment like that.

"In my instance, it was Lucas Moura.

That was the one time in my career where you give it the lot, the whole nine yards because when else are you going to see something like that?

Michel Vorm: "Kyle Walker-Peters was to my right and I could see Ronald de Boer and he was sitting close by.

I was looking at him like it's over, it's done.

And I said Kyle, 'let's be ready to go to the guys.'

"When the goal went in I jumped over the advertising board, ran to the guys to celebrate because that feeling you can't describe.

I didn't even think, I just ran over.

"I made a good sprint! Kyle was injured trying to run behind me.

If there was a steward that tried to hold me down, no chance.

The fans were there and we jumped on each other.

"Ajax fans were crying, they had had the champagne ready to go.

This was so big in Holland."

Adam Nathan: "It's chaos, my mates are crying.

I have tears in my eyes, my dad's crying.

His mates are crying.

"Spurs fans are mocked for not winning a trophy, but I'm not sure I'll ever celebrate a goal as much as that.

It was an Aguero-type moment going from losing to winning because the beauty of away goals is it's the only way in football you can go from losing to winning just like that.

So it's the only time you can go from that despair to that joy."

Darren Fletcher: "I had the side issue of (co-commentator) Jermaine (Jenas) completely losing it.

He was genuinely speechless.

And then this little croaky voice came in: 'I can't believe it, Fletch.

' I think that made it all the more special.

"He was in a state of shock, he had watery eyes.

We were there that night with both Jermaine and Glenn, who between them had spent a combined hell of a lot of time at Spurs.

And all the nonsense about 'Spursy', forget it because when it really mattered, they had the bollocks to do it."

Hannah Sheridan: "When the third goal went in I was in the dressing room and I had a bruise on my hip for months because we ran out so fast that we smashed into the corner of the table where all the food was."

Ross Johnston: "The camera I use has a built-in microphone to pick up crowd noise and that kind of thing.

I'm conscious the coaches watch back every bit of video so I know not to say anything.

But when that third goal goes in all you can hear is my voice screaming out, swear words, just a high-pitched scream."

Paul Miles: "I'll never forget the Ajax players collapsing everywhere.

Seeing our players go over to the fans to celebrate and then six, seven eight of the Ajax players literally collapsed on the floor.

If anyone's got that photograph from up high, the contrast in emotions from a football match, that was just madness.

"I remember getting a WhatsApp from Jermain Defoe along the lines of: 'wow and that's it.Just: 'wow.'"

Hannah Sheridan: "We all ran out, and were kind of huddling all on the bench because there were still a couple of minutes played after Lucas scored.

I was holding the doctor Chris Hughes, shaking him because my heart felt like it was coming out of my skin.

I was shouting at him saying, 'I think I'm going to pass out!' None of us could sit down, we were so on edge."

After seven minutes and 56 seconds of added time, the referee Felix Brych blows his whistle.

Tottenham are through to the Champions League final.

Dele Alli: "It felt like a dream.

I just wanted that moment to last forever.

We celebrated on the pitch and in the changing room, though for me the celebrations were soon cut short by a drug test!"

Ross Johnston: "I closed my laptop, literally sprinted through the crowd.

I got myself down to the dressing room all pumped up, and there was no one there.

I threw my bag to the floor, went on to the pitch and everyone was in the corner so I sprinted over there.

"That experience on the pitch, sharing that with the players and the staff was such a surreal experience.

The Tottenham crowd were so loud.

There is a professional divide between the players and staff but at that moment we were all friends, hugging and embracing each other."

Hannah Sheridan: "I ran straight on the pitch and my phone went flying out of my pocket.

Thankfully one of the media guys found it."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "I spoke to some of my team-mates on the pitch, we couldn't believe it.

I spoke with Tottenham's Argentine players, with Erik Lamela, (Juan) Foyth, (Paulo) Gazzaniga, a few words with Pochettino, obviously congratulating them, and wishing them the best.

Because they had taken it away from us in that manner, I told them to go on and win the competition.

"They gave me a hug and wished me well, they were obviously feeling for me too.

But there weren't many words because it's a little strange to keep talking, so we hugged and that was it."

Des Kelly: "It was pandemonium.

We were live on air, and I get a shout in my ear from the director saying that Pochettino is behind me.

So I turn around, I get the thumbs-up from Simon Felstein, the Tottenham press officer.

'I'll bring him in,' he says.

I turn around, say his name, turn back to Gary Lineker and say: 'Pochettino's behind us, he'll join us in a moment', and then he turns around and he's in floods of tears.

"His shirt is undone down to the stomach almost, his tie is askew.

I turn back and say 'I think we'd better give him a few minutes to get himself together.

' So then we go into the tunnel after all the interviews and he's disappeared into the dressing room.

He's very emotional and understandably so, everybody was.

And he's still in the dressing room.

So I walked down to the dressing room door and shout: 'Come on, come on, we're running out of time.

' And Simon says OK and brings him out.

"Before the interview starts, I said: 'are you feeling OK?' 'I'm OK, it's just every time I think about my family I start to cry.

' 'Well don't think about your family!' We start the interview, he's a lovely guy, very engaging, great personality, very tactile, very warm character.

He gets half-way through the interview and says 'I'd just like to thank my family', and immediately bursts into tears again."

Arthur Quesada: "I was on the pitch behind the goal.

Then I ran to the mixed zone to take my camera and tripod there to get a good spot.

I was thinking about what the hell I was going to ask Lucas for Brazilian TV.

"I was planning to ask him emotional questions.

But then my boss called me and he said: 'The commentary for our channel was amazing, the commentator said some very touching things.

' So I offered Lucas my phone and he took it because he knows me.

He put the headphones on to his ears.

And we put a second camera on a mobile phone below his face just to capture the moment and he started to cry immediately.

I didn't ask one thing.

"When the video was finished he said why he was crying.

He described his feelings - he explained that he was thinking about his family, his friends in Brazil listening to that commentary and he was very touched.

And he said it was the best night for him in his life in football."

Des Kelly: "I remember Sonny (Son Heung-min) saying he could not express himself because he was too emotional.

And he apologised for that.

And I told him: 'No need to apologise, I think that sums up the whole evening perfectly.'

"Then there was Harry Kane sprinting past me and of course he'd been injured.

Even Harry did an interview, declaring he was going to be fine for the final, which was a big call at the time."

Danny Rose: "We went back into the changing room, all shouting, jumping on each other, throwing drinks about.It was special.

"Mauricio didn't say anything.

He never speaks after a game.

He's somebody who likes to digest the game.

He'll watch the game again and then he'll give his opinion again in a team meeting.

"And the chairman (Daniel Levy) came into the changing room and then we've gone back out.

He shook everybody's hands and said well done.

He gave us a gift - a watch - a few weeks later just to say well done and that he was proud of us.

We proved Gullit and other people wrong.

I was very happy about that."

Dele Alli: "The music was playing and people were dancing and singing.

There's not many better feelings than winning and celebrating with your team."

Michel Vorm: "There was beer, Lucozade was flying around in the dressing room.

Even the chairman came down and was celebrating with us.People were crying.

Harry Winks was injured and he FaceTimed me so he could be in the dressing room.

I was showing him around so it was like he was there a little bit."

Ross Johnston: "We came back in the dressing room.

A crate of Heinekens was brought in and everyone was picking one up and not even drinking but spraying it around.

We had some scenes with the kitman, tipping milkshake over him and everyone was throwing drinks coolers in the air.

The cheesy classic songs came out.

Wonderwall came on, I remember.

"Daniel then walked into the dressing room, he got lifted up by everybody.

Crazy scenes in the dressing room - any energy people had they poured it out there."

Hannah Sheridan: "The floor was lethal.

There'd been protein thrown everywhere and water from when they'd come in.

Music was on, we were all dancing around.

Some players were on phones FaceTimeing their families.

The coaches were trying to bring them down to earth because we still had league games to play and a final.

We had to remember it's not the end of the season, we should celebrate but we'll need to come back down to earth at some point.

"It was madness, a lot of shouting.

I remember the 'Oh, Moussa Sissoko' song being sung a lot, and then when we went outside we all sung it I think."

Nicolas Tagliafico: "I got to the dressing room and they sent me for a drug test, so I don't remember much from there because I think I was away for something like 40 minutes.

"There were people having their showers but we didn't talk at all.

I think it's worse at the drug test because you're alone, all you can do is feel sorry for yourself for what's happened.

Your head is spinning.

You don't know what to do and you just think it cannot be.

"It's like you don't know what to do, you want to go back in time (to change it) but that's not possible.

You try to think about something else but it's not easy.

When you're in the drug test like this you're alone, you're sad, and there's nothing you can do - it's like you're locked up in jail, feeling sorry for yourself."

Ross Johnston: "We got word that Mauricio wanted us all to go back out on the pitch to celebrate together and show the fans our appreciation.

That was a really nice moment because we'd gone crazy on the pitch, we'd gone crazy in the dressing room and then to go out there and really take in what had happened and be there with all the fans was incredible."

Danny Rose: "All the Ajax fans had gone, it was just us and the Tottenham fans in the stadium.

They were just singing songs."

Ross Johnston: "When we were all together, the manager says, 'let's all run towards the fans and celebrate.

' And so we get in a line and start running, and I just presumed especially as it's Tottenham, surely we're going to do a Klinsmann? A running dive and slide on our chests.

"I didn't even question it so I ran in and jumped out flat on my chest, got up and celebrated.

Only afterwards everyone was like: 'I can't believe you fell over', I said: 'I didn't fall over, I did a Klinsmann.

' And luckily BT Sport had the footage so at least I had the evidence.

I'm still questioning why everyone else didn't do it.

"We then went back into the dressing room and we were just hugging each other, thinking, did that really just happen? I had to get a photo with Lucas, he was hugging his match ball, he wasn't letting that go anywhere.

I think I asked if I could hold it and he said no."

Des Kelly: "After we'd left the stadium, we all piled back to a hotel nearby.

By the time I've got to the bar, Glenn is sitting there, I've ordered some beers, and there's drinks surrounding Glenn, bottles of wine, piles of beers around him.

Because any Tottenham fan in the hotel is obviously buying him beer, and he's surrounded by bevvies.

So I take a picture of him celebrating with all this around him - so he can send the picture to his cardiologist."

Darren Fletcher: "We ended up with pizza and we ended up with beers.

And Glenn came back and he said he was just glad to be there to see it.

Mr Tottenham had gone through what he'd gone through over the last year and it had ended with him seeing Spurs do that in the Champions League and get to the final.

It made it all the more special."

Ross Johnston: "It was pure excitement on the flight home.

We landed at around 3am, and normally at that stage after you've played that game and been so alert, it's pretty low key - all the staff are asleep.

But on that flight everyone was still up, everyone was buzzing.

Singing, going over what had happened."

Hannah Sheridan: "As soon as we got on the plane, everyone was served with refreshments and food.

I hadn't eaten for seven or eight hours but because of all the adrenaline I really didn't feel hungry.

I was trying to get the players to take smoothies and food."

Ross Johnston: "I had the game on my laptop and obviously at that point no one had any mobile data so I had everybody coming up to me saying: 'Can I see that back? Can I see the goal back?' And we spent so long just looking at the celebration.

You see people like Victor, who had come off with a knee injury and could barely walk, yet at the end of the game he was sprinting along the pitch.

"We watched the moment back 10 or 20 times, and each time we would follow a different person and see their reaction."

Hannah Sheridan: "We got back to London and we stayed at the Lodge, which is our home away from home at the training ground.

The idea is you get more sleep that way.

"But I remember getting back and looking around, and we were like: 'How are we going to get to sleep? This is just madness.

' It was really late, around 4am.

The staff and I were texting each other saying: 'This is mad, is anyone actually asleep?' I'm sure the players were doing the same.

"The next day we must have only had a couple of hours' sleep, but I felt absolutely invincible.

I couldn't sleep for a good few days.

Honestly, I didn't come down until three or four days later."

Darren Fletcher: "There was this bonkers scenario the next day.

I was in a taxi on the way to the airport and I saw a tweet that said they should just put the commentary for Moura's third through the speakers at Schiphol airport because it's all you can hear anyway.

"So when we walked in it was exactly the case.

You could hear the goal at various stages on phones being played by pretty much everyone there.

We sat down, had a bit of breakfast and it was on in there.

Even in the queue to get on the plane, every two or three had the goal on at a different stage.

It was like a Tottenham party."

Hannah Sheridan: "I still think about it now.Always, always.

And if I think about it again too much it will probably stop me sleeping again.

"It just makes me really proud of the team.

It was such a tough challenge when we came in at half-time, it seemed virtually impossible.

The excitement, I almost feel nervous thinking about it again how on edge we were in those final few minutes."

Adam Nathan: "It's always going to be something I'll smile about and it will forever make me feel better seeing that goal.

"I think about it all the time.

My favourite picture ever is the one of us celebrating at full-time.

A group of us sit together - me, my dad, his best mate, three of my best mates, one of their dads, and one of his best mates.

We've sat together for 20 years and have gone abroad, up, down, east, west across the country together and it felt like our moment.

And ultimately that's what you do it for.

Obviously it would be great to have silverware at the end of it but the point of it is the moments you get to celebrate with those you're closest to.

Nicolas Tagliafico: "I try not to think about it but when it comes to mind yes, the whole game comes back to me.

Every time I remember it it's something ugly, it's an ugly memory.

"I have thought about it, I have thought about it a lot.

I think if we had got to the final we would have won, because of how we got there.

For me it was ours, obviously a final is 50:50 but I think that if we had got there we would have had a great chance.

It was all or nothing."

Darren Fletcher: "I get asked a lot if it topped Liverpool-Barcelona, and in terms of drama I've never witnessed anything like that Spurs game.

Because they are dead and buried - finished.Finished.

But they somehow drag themselves back with essentially the last kick of the game having had to score three goals without reply.

So it's the most dramatic game I've ever seen."

Danny Rose: "We worked so hard to get to the final.

Not just that season, but over the course of Mauricio's tenure.

It's something that we definitely deserved.

"The route that we had, having one point after three games in the group stage, having to go to Barcelona and get a result, and then playing Man City over two games, and they've scored four goals at home, and we still managed to go through.

"Then 1-0 down at home to Ajax, and then 3-0 down on aggregate away, and we've still gone through.

We had the hardest journey, getting to the final, but when we were there, we felt as if we deserved it without a doubt."

Gary Lineker: "I think it has to be one of the greatest Tottenham nights ever.

Tottenham are not a giant in the economic sense that other clubs are.

And considering the fact that they've not won much for a long time, it has to be one of their greatest moments.

It was the most un-Tottenham thing ever."

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