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Terry Venables

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Terry Venables is an English former football player and manager. During the 1960s and 70s, he played for various clubs including Chelsea F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and Queens Park Rangers F.C., and gained two caps for England National Football Team.

As a club manager, Venables won the Second Division championship with Crystal Palace F.C. in 1979. He reached the 1982 FA Cup Final with Queens Park Rangers F.C. and won the Second Division in 1983. With FC Barcelona, he won La Liga in 1985 and reached the 1986 European Cup Final. He guided Tottenham Hotspur F.C. to FA Cup victory in 1991. He also managed Middlesbrough F.C. and Leeds United A.F.C.. As the England National Football Team manager from 1994 to 1996, he reached the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championships, and managed Australia National Football Team from 1997 to 1998.
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He succeeded Graham Taylor as the manager of the England men's national football team in 1994 but stayed in charge for just one tournament, Euro '96. He announced he was standing down after the tournament before it began due to imminent legal wrangles relating to his business interests. Doubts over his probity had actually seen him overlooked for the job when Taylor had been appointed in 1990. Nevertheless, during his short stint in the England job, former player Gary Lineker said that Venables had raised the England team "from the depths to one of the best in the world again".
"P B Yuill" is not a real person. It is a pseudonym for the combined writing talents of Terry Venables and Gordon Williams, used in the credits of Hazell (1978).
He coached FC Barcelona to a European Cup final in the 1980s, but his team lost on penalties. As coach of England, his team progressed to the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championship, but lost on penalties to the Germans.
With Gordon Williams he co-wrote the TV series Hazell (1978). Neither writer was credited under his own name; instead a combined pseudonym Terry Venables was used in the credits.
He received a 'special thanks' notation from the producers of the Official English Football team song, "Three Lions", published on CD in 1996 by Chrysalis Music Ltd.

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