R.I.P Terry Venables

[Spurspiria]

Thanks for the memories Terry. The only man who could manage Gazza. RIP.

It did cross my mind today. How Gazza is taking this as El Tel was like a father figure. The stuff we kept hearing about in the press was about how Alex Ferguson would have sorted him out. I have great admiration for Fergie, but ultimately no "one" single person would have been the answer just one of the pieces.

 

[THX2208]

I will always remember playing this in my later school days. What a fantastic coach he was

 

[SonicSarr]

Goodnight El Tel. Best times for Spurs and England. Legend. RIP.

 

[ernie78]

RIP Terry, very sad news.
I met him in about 90/91, waiting in the car park at white hart lane before a game hoping to get players signatures.
I wasn’t the most confident kid, speaking to people I didn’t know wasn't something I was comfortable with let alone approaching famous players and managers.
Venables was talking to a group of people about 20yards to my right & my Dad tried to encourage me to approach him. I don’t know if Terry heard our exchange or not but a few seconds later he turned, walked towards us saying “Don’t worry I’ve seen you” he then signed my book & had a quick chat with my Dad and I. I was buzzing & think my Dad secretly was too.

His England team are the last England team I really loved. We were brilliant in 96.

 

[Wheeler Dealer]

I’m 56 and remember him fondly from 1987 to 1993. It was his kudos and charisma that got us Gazza and Lineker without question.

 

[kernowspurscoach1977]

Rip Terry
Fa cup 91 amazing season

that 3-1 semi final against arsenal - first year Fa cup semi was held at Wembley

England 96 will stick with me forever as one of the most fantastic tournaments ever. The three lions song the team Gazza
Sas up front
exciting attacking footie absolute class

 

[PCozzie]

Rip Terry
Fa cup 91 amazing season

that 3-1 semi final against arsenal - first year Fa cup semi was held at Wembley

The '87 FA Cup final got me into Spurs when I was 8, but that semi-final was when I properly fell in love with the club. That's when I knew what it was like to really support a team, to be emotionally wrapped up in success and defeat week after week.

 

[Metalhead]

An abiding memory of the '91 cup final was him huddling with the players at extra time whilst Cloughie was sat on the bench, letting his assistants talk to his. A great man manager. The 96 Euros were probably the last time I really cared about watching England.

 

[mil1lion]

I wonder how his formation would work with this team. Would love to see us try it one game or in the FA Cup.

Son
Maddison---Kulusevski
Bentancur---Bissouma---Sarr
Udogie---VdV---Romero---Porro
Vicario​

 

[kmk]

He signed some wonderful players for us Gazza, Lineker, Anderton and Sheringham + Nayim.

It’s such a shame how he fell out with Sugar. At the time we were one of the biggest clubs in the league

 

[UncleBuck]

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I know he gets a fair bit of flak with some of the stuff he comes out with but this is one of the most fitting tributes I’ve ever read.
Only the other day I posted on here after the last England game how if Tel would have had this crop he’d have won everything in front of him.
It’s why I just laugh when people wax lyrical about the likes of Pep and Klopp as tactical geniuses as Tel was doing it years before them and had a bit more class, charisma and humility.
Absolute ledge in my books.

 

[dannythomas]

Up there just behind Bill Nick and Burkinshaw as one of our best ever managers. Always wondered how good the combination of Waddle and Gazza could have been under Terry at Spurs if Irving Scholar’s financial mismanagement had not forced the sale of first Waddle then Gazza.
It was such a shame that his business career was not as successful and the absence of any comment from Sugar about Terry’s passing today shows a lot about Sugar’s personality, incapable of any magnanimity even now.
‘RIP Terry , a great man.

 

[RJR1949]

There are age related stages in your football watching life.

When you start watching all the players are so much older than you.

Then you notice the players are all your age or thereabouts.

Then you hang on thinking you’re not that old because there’s at least one player older than you.

Alas I’ve reached the last stage when players who were your contemporaries start dying.

Such is life.

 

[Flashspur]

Rest in peace Terry. Lots og great memories.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Thanks for the memories Tel

RIP

 

[tippspur59]

RIP El Tel, a great Spurs man..

 

[DenverSpur]

The last manager to win us the FA Cup. Still one of my fave Spurs memories, if not the actual final, then certainly the actual cup run that year. ? Tel.

Who can forget that Cup run? Gazza at his finest(until he lost his head in the Final). He had a goal or an assist in every round bar the Final. His goal at Portsmouth was my favorite but the one against Oxford was special because he scored it for us in Paxton Road end.

 

[DenverSpur]

RIP Terry.
A Spurs Legend, an England manager Legend and one of the great coaches and characters of English football.
I was at Blackburn to see his Spurs debut.

 

[DiscoD1882]

He’s coming home.
RIP El Tel