The Life and Times of El Tel

"He was the best I worked with. Everybody loved him."PAUL GASCOIGNE"Terry got the fans loving the team he made you proud."DAVID SEAMAN"He made you relaxed and perform to the best of your abilities."TEDDY SHERINGHAM"Everybody wanted to win for El Tel that's the sign of a greatmanager."PAUL INCE"He treated us like adults you wanted to make sureyou paid him back."JAMIE REDKNAPPTerry Venables was a hugely popular but controversial figure. He rose to prominence as manager of Crystal Palace and QPR but became a national figure when he won the Spanish league title with Barcelona in his first season. His return to boyhood club Tott enham seemed to be triumphal with the signings of Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne but his reign ended in a costly courtroom ba le.Having helped computer millionaire Alan Sugar takeover the London club, being installed as Chief Executive, his relationship with the Amstrad boss quickly soured and the subsequent legal ba ttle threatened his life-time ambition of managing England. This is a new edition of the original book Venables: The Inside Story updated to include reflections on Venables' greatest triumph in narrowly failing to lead the national team to glory at Euro '96 and his later managerial career taking in teams all overthe globe from Middlesbrough to Australia.

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