64 Facts About Terry Venables

Terry Venables reached the 1982 FA Cup Final with Queens Park Rangers and won the Second Division in 1983.

Terry Venables guided Tottenham Hotspur to victory in the 1991 FA Cup Final.

Terry Venables's tactical style was modern and innovative, which was a contrast to the rigid tactical style that dominated English football at the time.

Terence Frederick Terry Venables was born at 313 Valence Avenue, Dagenham, Essex on 6 January 1943, the only child of Fred and Myrtle Terry Venables.

Terry Venables's father was a Navy petty officer who originally came from Barking.

Terry Venables progressed from representing his county to earning caps for England Schoolboys, and attracted interest from Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Manchester United.

Terry Venables left school in the summer of 1958 and signed for Chelsea as an apprentice at the age of 15.

Terry Venables later said that he joined Chelsea as he felt he had a better chance of breaking into the first team at Stamford Bridge, and because the club offered his father a job as a part-time scout, and he denied West Ham's youth coach Malcolm Allison's claim that he had only joined Chelsea for financial reasons.

Terry Venables delayed becoming a professional player so he could try for a place on the Great Britain squad for the 1960 Summer Olympics, and turned professional after learning that he would not be selected for the squad.

Terry Venables won the FA Youth Cup with Chelsea in consecutive seasons, as they beat Preston North End in 1960 and Everton in 1961.

Terry Venables went on to lift the League Cup with Chelsea, and scored a penalty against Leicester City in the two-legged final.

Terry Venables never forgave Docherty for the punishment, describing it as "crass, stupid and self-defeating".

Terry Venables soon made his presence felt when he punched club legend Dave Mackay during training, though no long-term rift developed because of the incident.

Terry Venables did not enjoy a great relationship with his manager, believing Bill Nicholson to have a negative attitude that drained him of enthusiasm.

Terry Venables believed that he was not appreciated by the Spurs fans.

Terry Venables later said that his transfer to Second Division QPR changed his life, and stated that "I cannot think of a transfer blessed with so much good fortune".

Once coach Bobby Campbell departed Loftus Road for Arsenal, Jago allowed Terry Venables to supervise the club's training sessions.

Terry Venables signed with Crystal Palace in 1974; he and Ian Evans were traded to Palace in exchange for Don Rogers.

Terry Venables played for League of Ireland side St Patrick's Athletic for a short period between February and March 1976.

Terry Venables left Palace, in the top division, for Queens Park Rangers, who were in the Second Division.

Terry Venables drew a number of players over to Queens Park Rangers which, as reported at the time, gave an additional financial boost to his personal earnings.

Terry Venables took QPR back into the First Division as Second Division champions in 1983.

Terry Venables guided Rangers to the FA Cup final in 1982, whilst still a Second Division side, but lost in a replay against his former club Tottenham.

Terry Venables then moved to Spain to take over at Barcelona, while Alan Mullery took over from him at Loftus Road in an ill-fated arrangement that lasted just six months.

Terry Venables gained a good reputation as a manager with his successes at Crystal Palace and QPR, and this attracted offers from some of Europe's most prestigious clubs.

In 1984, Terry Venables took the role of manager at Barcelona, earning the sobriquet "El Tel" by the English tabloid newspapers.

Terry Venables was recommended by Bobby Robson and Doug Ellis to Joan Gaspart, the FC Barcelona vice-president at the time.

Terry Venables won the 1986 Copa de la Liga, and led them to the Copa del Rey final in 1986 losing to Real Zaragoza.

Lineker spent three years at Barcelona, until Terry Venables brought him back to England with his new club Tottenham Hotspur in 1989.

Terry Venables was dismissed by Barcelona in September 1987, after failing to repeat his title success at the Camp Nou and losing home and away to eventual finalists Dundee United in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup six months earlier.

Terry Venables had brought both Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne to Spurs and was a favourite to replace Bobby Robson as England national football team manager when the job became vacant in 1990, but doubts about his probity led him to be passed over in favour of Graham Taylor.

Terry Venables was appointed manager of the England national team on 28 January 1994, having been recommended to the FA by Jimmy Armfield.

Terry Venables came under intense scrutiny and censure in the media for his business dealings, which led MP Kate Hoey to state in Parliament that Venables was unfit for the post of national team manager.

Terry Venables took England to a second-place finish in the Umbro Cup in June 1995, but temporarily froze Paul Ince out of the international set-up after Ince declined to play in the tournament.

Terry Venables decided to stand down at the end of Euro 1996 after the FA's International Committee chairman Noel White refused to grant Terry Venables a contract extension in December 1995; the FA insisted on evaluating England's performances in competitive fixtures before deciding on his future.

In May 1996, Glenn Hoddle was announced as his successor, meaning that Terry Venables would have no choice but to stand down as manager no matter how well England performed at the tournament.

Terry Venables became manager of Australia in November 1996, following the resignation of Eddie Thomson.

Terry Venables's side swept through the Oceania World Cup qualifiers, but were beaten in November 1997 in a play-off by Iran.

Terry Venables left acrimoniously in January 1999, as the south-London club went into administration.

Terry Venables's appointment had created a media frenzy, with Goldberg boasting that he was going to turn Palace into a European force within the next five years.

Terry Venables initially turned down the offer due to his media and business interests, but he accepted when Middlesbrough offered him the job on a short-term basis.

Incumbent manager Bryan Robson remained at the club, but Terry Venables made team selection decisions.

Terry Venables left Middlesbrough in June 2001, soon after Robson, with the club saying that his media commitments made it impossible for him to continue.

Terry Venables had signed a new five-year contract with ITV Sport in May 2001.

In July 2002, Terry Venables was released from his ITV punditry job to become Leeds United manager on a two-year deal, replacing the sacked David O'Leary.

Leeds were further weakened in January 2003, when Jonathan Woodgate was sold to Newcastle United without Terry Venables being informed, in an attempt to pay off mounting debts.

Terry Venables threatened to leave if Woodgate was sold, but was persuaded to stay by Peter Ridsdale.

Terry Venables was linked with Australian club Newcastle Jets in 2005, but his commitments in the UK prevented him from taking up a role within the club, and his agent announced that he did not sign any deal with the club.

Later in the year, Terry Venables returned to the England set-up as assistant to new manager Steve McClaren.

Terry Venables was later sacked from this role in November 2007, along with McClaren, after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008.

Terry Venables was later linked in the media with many managerial vacancies, including those at the Republic of Ireland, Bulgaria, Queen's Park Rangers, Hull City, and Wales.

Terry Venables turned down an offer to manage Newcastle United on a caretaker basis in September 2008, following the departure of Kevin Keegan.

Terry Venables described himself as a "players' man", who gave players freedom off the pitch and defended them if they were criticised in the media.

Terry Venables was reluctant to praise players during his half-time team talks to avoid complacency, and believed it was important to keep his words brief and the tone light-hearted so players could take on board key points and remain in good spirits for the second half.

Terry Venables met his second wife Yvette Bazire in 1984, in his father's pub in Chingford, Greater London.

Terry Venables accompanied him to Barcelona when he was appointed their manager and they married in 1991.

Terry Venables managed his Kensington dining club, Scribes West, for seven years.

Terry Venables combined his duties with Australia for a period as consultant and then chairman at Portsmouth.

In 2014, together with his wife, Terry Venables opened a boutique hotel and restaurant in Penaguila, in the Alicante region of Spain.

Terry Venables served the Professional Footballers' Association as vice-chairman in the 1970s, and represented QPR teammate Dave Thomas at his tribunal against Burnley chairman Bob Lord.

Terry Venables co-authored five novels with writer Gordon Williams: They Used to Play on Grass, The Bornless Keeper, Hazell Plays Solomon, Hazell and the Three Card Trick, and Hazell and the Menacing Jester.

Terry Venables is credited as co-creator of the ITV detective series Hazell.

Terry Venables parents were both talented singers who encouraged their son to take it up.

Terry Venables died on 25 November 2023, at the age of 80, following a long illness.