Terry Venables: The charismatic manager who so nearly brought football home
by Pa Sport Staff
Nov 26, 2023
4 minutes
Terry Venables will forever be remembered as the manager who oversaw the summer when football came home.
The charismatic boss, who has died at the age of 80, enjoyed a colourful and controversial career, the undoubted highlight of which was leading England to within a penalty shoot-out of reaching the final of Euro 96 on home soil.
That fixture was his last as England manager after he left the role to focus on his upcoming court cases, but by the end of the year he was, perhaps typically, combining a new role as Portsmouth chairman with another as Australia coach.
That 'wheeler-dealer' streak saw Venables court controversy for his
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