Watch the Throne: The Tactics Behind the Premier League's European
Champions, 1999-2019 lifts the lid on the tactics used by Premier League
clubs on their respective journeys to Champions League glory. Beginning
with Manchester United in 1999 and concluding with Liverpool's 2019
triumph, Watch the Throne provides detailed analysis of how Chelsea,
Manchester United and Liverpool overcame their opposition to claim the
ultimate prize in European club football. While United's 1999 victory
was an outlier, Liverpool's win in 2005 began a period of domination for
Premier League clubs, with eight English finalists in eight seasons from
2004/05 to 2011/12. Changes in tactical trends saw the absence of
Premier League finalists between the 2012/13 and 2016/17 seasons as
Spanish, German and French sides briefly overtook their Premier League
rivals, before an all-English 2019 final between Liverpool and Tottenham
Hotspur marked the technical and tactical recovery of the world's
wealthiest football league.