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TERRY: As far back as I can remember I've always wanted to play football.
I've always wanted to make an impression on football.
(CROWD CHEERING)
(INDISTINCT COMMENTARY)
It's just a great feeling I have for the game
and for the people involved in it. They're my kind of people.
COMMENTATOR: We've seen the exhaustion.
Looking back, I think I've had just desserts
for what I've given to the game.
COMMENTATOR: The one thing we should say is fair
is that England at least have had some practice at penalties.
But there were so many things along that road.
Their life is not an easy thing.
You can't expect to tell a fairy tale.
Hopefully we'll able to tell a fairy tale at the end.
♪ There must be lights burning brighter
♪ Somewhere
♪ Got to be birds flying higher
♪ In a sky more blue
♪ If I can dream of a better land
♪ Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
♪ Tell me why, oh, why
♪ Oh, why can't my dream come true
♪ Oh, why
♪ There must be peace and understanding sometime
♪ Strong winds of promise that will blow away the doubt and fear
♪ If I can dream of a warmer sun
♪ Where hope keeps shining on everyone
♪ Tell me why, oh, why
♪ Oh, why won't that sun appear ♪
From the working classes you get a bit convinced
that opportunities are for others,
and I think everyone's inclined to
narrow their opportunities down as opposed to...
opening them up and saying, "I can do anything
if I really want it enough,
if I really wanna try at it", you know.
And I've just been a guy with that sort of attitude.
Even when I'm sleeping my feet are still going.
There's plenty of time to rest when you're dead. (LAUGHS)
With Terry, you had this colour in his life,
you knew there were these other sides to
businesses and inventions.
He into trying things and I'm sure he saw himself
as a bit of an entrepreneur.
But football was his game.
I think there was a definite arrogance about Terry.
I mean, why wouldn't you be arrogant.
You know, you're like some sort of god, in a way.
There's always the opportunity for people to say,
"Well, you should've focused just fully on the football
and it would've been better", but maybe it could've been worse.
I understand why he wanted to be more than just a coach
or the manager. I don't think it worked out well for him.
Terry's story is a bit of a Greek tragedy.
You know, he really aspired to power to greatness.
He wanted to be top of the world,
and then, you know, suddenly, reality sets in.
What we don't want is to be caught quick break.
Oh, fucking hell, we are in trouble.
COMMENTATOR: And it's gone in! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
You talk till you're fucking blue in the face.
The mistakes was so severe.
Not strong enough on the ball.
Graham was very vocal. Tactically, he was decent,
but it just didn't work. You know, coming off the back
of 1990, getting through to the semi-finals,
it just fizzled out.
COMMENTATOR: And it's a goal. (INAUDIBLE)
Do you ever have thoughts about your own job and say,
"Hey, it's virtually impossible to do this job successfully
- under the present system"? - No, I mean, I signed a four-year contract
with the Football Association. That doesn't say that it's still not
virtually impossible to do the job in the way
that one would like it to do. Of course, some previous managers
have said the same. I'm not the first England manager to say this.
But I certainly don't throw in the towel.
Don't need to knock it first time.
I mean, looking at all things, from my own personal point of view,
looking at how things have happened,
looking at availability or non availability of players,
I'm satisfied that I've done the job to the best of my ability.
(CHANTING)
The whole idea of the England team
was kind of under assault, really.
But it was a regime that tumbled into the abyss quite quickly.
I think if you talk to the players, they were on the floor,
emotionally, spiritually. They had taken such a battering.
It was a very harsh, strong tabloid circulation war
going on at the time, and he was very much
in the crosshairs of that. And because he was such a sort of
decent, dignified person, I think it really hurt him.
What's the problem with everybody? What's the matter with everybody?
Come on, come on, brace yourselves.
Get on with it, look for your win. Oh, Rob, I can't continue
giving... Rob, I can't have...
Listen, Rob, I cannot have faces like yours
around me now. Now, I'll continue... (LAUGHTER) I can't.
I can't, Rob. Rob, Rob, Rob,
Rob, I'll tell you this now...
If you were one of my players, with a face like that,
I'd kick you out. You would never have a chance, son.
Come on, bit more of a smile, Rob, be a bit more... Hey?
- Happy. (LAUGHTER) Hey? - I am...
The whole nation rests on whether Rob Shepherd is happy or not.
I hope I'm smiling tomorrow, I really do.
I really do, I tell you, but I just worry.
COMMENTATOR: England needing to win by a seven-goal margin,
and hope that Poland can do them a favour
in Poznan against Holland. I'm sure you're aware now
of what's at stake. And number 9 picks the ball up straight away
and San Marino launch the first attack. And a mistake
by Stuart Pearce, and San Marino have scored.
I don't believe this.
The newspapers tell me that nobody wants the England manager's job now,
supposing Graham Taylor resigns or is sacked, or whatever happens
to him. Maybe he'll continue, who knows, we don't know yet.
You were always tipped but you haven't been tipped lately.
I'm resting. I'm enjoying myself at last.
(LAUGHS) Would you take it? Would it be a job that would interest you,
supposing all things were equal? I tell you what I'll do,
I'll sit on the fence. (LAUGHS)
What would you be doing if you weren't gonna be playing football?
I have no idea. It's all I can do.
Dagenham was alive
with football people.
Bobby Moore. When Bobby grew up with us
he was a couple of years older than Terry and I.
Jimmy Greaves. Jimmy wasn't a Dagenham boy
but he lived at Hainault, and Jimmy was just a lovely, lovely man.
Terry was going to be
as big as any of them.
Football was a way to get on.
How old are you now?16.
- But football's your whole life? - Yes.
Do you want it to go on being your - whole life? - Yes.
This is the famous Bonham Road where Terry lived.
Terry was synonymous with Dagenham.
Very much one of Dagenham's favourite sons.
We bought Terry a bike for Christmas
and it was a lovely bike.
And he was standing in the passageway
down there, a very small passageway,
and Jimmy Thompson came along and he said,
"Whose bike is that out there?"
So, we said, "Terry's." He said, "It's no good", he said,
"Not for footballer's legs." He said, "It develops the wrong muscles",
and from that day on, Terry never rode that bike again.
It was put out in the shed and it was there for a few years
until we gave it away.
I think, if you're a very bright child
you're sort of hungry for everything.
You want to conquer the world.
You're brilliant at football, you can sing,
you're good looking. There's a sort of restless mind.
♪ You're just too good to be true
♪ Can't take my eyes off of you...
TERRY: The youth team I joined was obviously destined for big things.
Every day I used to make that journey across the town
to Stamford Bridge. But it was a journey I would've made for nothing,
let alone the £6 a week we earned in those days.
I suppose you could say that my time at Chelsea
was the happiest I've ever had.
Just looking around there now, it brings the memories flooding back.
The place, the game, and most of all, the people.
And, of course, it wasn't a bad team either.
We won the Youth Cup two years running,
and Chelsea gave me the chance to tour Europe for the first time.
The Chelsea team was full of youngsters
at 19, 20, and 21,
and I think that's one of the reasons why we all got on
very well together.
I knew right away that I would enjoy it there.
Terry was quite a character. A bouncy Londoner,
great sense of humour.
Terry was loved. You know, he was their, sort of, leader.
COMMENTATOR: And another goal!
The amount of talent there was amongst the youngsters at Chelsea
was unbelievable. And Terry was the brightest jewel of the lot.
He's your midfield general.
You know, he'll get hold of the ball and he'll get your attack organised
and get you functioning as a team.
And like that type of player, he would always want the ball.
(CHEERING)
Playing for England at full level completed a unique set for me.
Caps at all levels and a record that can't be beaten.
COMMENTATOR: Inside left, Terry Venables to Hinton.
He's crossed, he's deflected by Verbiest.
Goal.(CHEERING)
Terry had it all in his head.
The players knew that Terry eventually
would become a coach at some part of his career.
Are you expected to shout at the players on the field?
Everybody expect to shout at each other. You know, it's not necessarily
just the captain. We can't have 11 captains on the field, I think.
East End and West End, two different worlds
under the same roof. The East that's shabby.
The West End, it's smart and fashionable.
He was always very dapper, Terry.
I picked up on it, and obviously,
then living in London, which was really fashionable at the time,
that helped me as well.
I got to know certain ways of wearing certain clothes.
It was exciting times.
We used to come up to London after training,
nearly every other day, so we thought,
"Instead of buying clothes, why don't we have our own little shop?"
That's how it started.
Terry met somebody and said, "You know, do you fancy doing this
and doing that?" And he spoke to me and George
and we give it a try, like.
The problem we had was what we were gonna call the shop.
We came up with the idea, Greater Ron.
There was Ronnie Harris, there was Terry and myself,
so, really, everybody else thought, "Well, that's a good idea",
so, Greater Ron it was.
♪ I told my friend that I was gone away...
He said to me, "Come up and have a suit." I went, "Terry,
I'm your poorest mate. How can I afford one of your suits?"
He said, "Yeah." All the boys from all the other clubs
they all had their suits made, didn't they,
and it was right in the West End, it was.
We made Norman Wisdom's suits. (LAUGHTER)
We never got the contract for the hat,
but we used to make his suits. They said, "Not them little funny ones."
I said, "No, it's ones that he normally wears."
It was just an outlet,
but Terry was like that, you see. His mind was going all the time.
Terry's a great one for trying new ventures.
He's got a very active mind.
Terry's one of these fellas that could talk all day,
had plenty of gift of the gab. If there were four of us
having an argument, he would always have to be the one
that won it. Simple as that.
In training, if we were working set plays
and free kicks, he'd say to Tom,
"Maybe we should try this, Tom, and do this."
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
You take it, yeah. Uh-huh, yeah.
I felt he just got a little too big for his boots.
I don't think it went down too well with Tom
because Terry never lasted too long after that.
If a club a being run the proper way, whether you're at the top,
at the bottom, you must have discipline.
And let's face it, if you give some players a yard they'll take a mile.
REPORTER: After more than two months of wrangling
the FA have finally got their man. But up to the last minute,
Terry Venables was trying to keep everyone guessing.
You look like a man who's got a new job, have you?
- No, no. - Please, Terry, look this way, please.
After months of speculation, the worst kept secret in football
has been revealed. Terry Venables is the new England football coach.
I remember I was cleaning the kitchen floor,
and he rang me and said, "I've got it."
But I think he was euphoric.
I think the happiest I've ever heard him, actually.
Today's announcement had been delayed
because of concerns about the business affairs
of the former Tottenham Hotspur manager. But according
to the Football Association, any lingering doubts
have now been dispelled.
Terry Venables, England coach.
A job description that, according to the Football Association,
would've gone to whomever they'd appointed,
that, which, has a distance from the FA's administration
that the word "manager" most certainly does not have.
(REPORTERS CHATTING AND LAUGHING)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
REPORTER: Terry. Thank you.
This one, please, this one. Terry, and again, this way.
- One step over, please. - REPORTER It was a day of getting to know you,
early ideas, plans, tactics for football and tomorrow's sports pages.
The business deals, the libels and any legal matters
could be cleared up later.
I've always took the stance that I'd done nothing wrong
and I was always very strong in that view.
And, in fact, I'm glad they took a long while.
That showed that they went through everything,
they asked as many people as they could, and I'm glad they come up
with the answer they did.
We have total confidence.
He comes to us, he tells us with clean hands,
his lawyer tells us he comes to us with clean hands.
And in his contract, of course, we have built in adequate safeguards.
Initially, when he got the contract, he was happy
to take the contract, and I think he sort of took it at face value.
But it obviously meant something, that there wasn't a World Cup
in that contract. So I think he was prepared to see how things developed
which you would do. I mean, who knows what's gonna happen
in that period of time. But he wasn't happy with it.
I was a bit apprehensive, cos I thought,
"Oh, God, what's it gonna bring, this job",
because you got so much stick.
If you did it wrong, the papers were on you all the time.
But I was happy for him. He had got the job he wanted,
so... And I knew he could do it. If anybody could do it, he could.
Terry, Terry, one last glance over here.
You know very well, over 20 years of coaching and managing
what style that I've used.
I'm certainly not intending to change that.
It will be try to play with as much invention and flair,
coupled with common sense, cos it's not just about playing football,
it's winning games.
I've worked with Terry since I was 21, so he knows what I'm capable
of doing. It's great playing for your country,
but I don't pick the team. All I'm here to do
is prove to Terry my fitness and prove him that I wanna play
for England again, full stop. I'm glad you realise that at last.
(CHUCKLES) You don't pick the team. (LAUGHS)
REPORTER: Terry! Terry!
The FA handled him really badly.
OK, they needed to work, maybe tone down some of the business elements
- to Venables. - But you couldn't, could you?
That was a thing. Because he's such a firing, sparking chap
who wants to do all things all the time. Just part of what he was.
It's why there was always that twinkle in his eye when you spoke
to him. Even when he was giving you a bollocking...
(LAUGHS) ..you sense that. But they wanted him
to wear an FA blazered straitjacket.
And that was not gonna work.
So we've got the European Championships in two years, right,
and England are gonna win it, yeah? Tell me they're gonna win it?
I'm very confident and I wouldn't have taken the job
if I didn't think there was a good possibility
of doing particularly well in the future, and turning it round.
The countries we're gonna play are good teams,
and I think it's stupid to actually think we're going to win it.
I think it's... It's not. You're gonna get hugely disappointed if you don't.
What we gotta say is we're confident, we're gonna be there,
we're gonna stick together, the country will be behind us
like they were in '66, and hopefully that's where it'll take us.
I wouldn't go any stronger than that. It'd be very silly to do that.
You can, I can't.
Let's get Terry sorted out first and then...
Actually, I wouldn't mind a shot of you looking at the list.
Right, standby. Nice and quiet.
The cup run of the mid '70s, when we took the third division side
to the semi-final, gave the club the appetite for success.
And when Malcolm Allison departed and I took over,
I was manager of a league club for the first time.
Terry's character changed from being a player
when he went into management. It was more deep thinking.
He thought about things, and he always had a picture of what he wanted.
It's a young side, how do you think they might - if they get
to the first division? Would they flourish there?
I think we'd do very well, but the main concern is
getting out this division first. There's no point in talking about
the first until we're out of the second.
- Do you know how to play this? - Yes.
I learnt, with Terry, that if you've got the ball,
then you're the boss, because it's impossible to play football
if you haven't got a ball.
And that's how simple he made the game for me,
and he said, "All I want you to be
is a thorn in the other team's side."
He never muddled my thinking. Anything that was complicated
when he spoke to the team, in general,
and anything to do with free kicks, throw ins, or tactical stuff,
he always moved me to one side and just threw me
a couple of footballs and said, "Go and have a few shots",
or, "Practise your crossing, or whatever. This basically
doesn't concern you. All I want you to do is show your talent when you play."
Mind management was a real strength of his,
and encouraging players. I'm sure it gave all of us a lot of confidence.
I'm Vince. Would you like to come and see the manager
to sign your contracts now. Come and - see Mr Venables. - Thanks.
Sit down. How are you? Good, sit down.
Because of Terry Venable's vision it was an easy transition
from being youth team players to first team players.
Has it been easy for you as a manager with youngsters?
(SCOFFS) It makes you feel young, I would think as well.
Yeah, well, I am young. (LAUGHS)
And that's one-nil.
We'd won the FA Youth Cup two seasons in a row,
we'd had a good season, the season after that
where we progressed up the league.
Well done, lads, well done.
And this is all before the majority of us had turned 20.
And it's Andy McCulloch putting Palace in front in the 15th minute.
You're telling me that the strain that one or two people
in the back room are seeing as you get nearer...
Story about a cup of coffee this - morning. - My secretary,
I said, "How are you feeling?" She said, "I'm fine.
I'm absolutely fine. Would you like a cup of coffee?"
I said, "Yes." She said, "What do you want, white or red?" (LAUGHTER)
Beautiful, Terry, thank you. Thank you.
The Burnley game was obviously, like,
a freakish night because we walked into the ground
and it was absolutely full to the rafters
and people hanging off of floodlights and that.
The crowning goal came from midfield break.
Burnley, they seem to fall apart, as Dave Swindlehurst,
the top scorer, added one more to his tally.
(CHEERING)
I just tried to hit it as hard as I could.
And I think it took a slight deflection and went in,
so I was gonna take that all day.
Palace were going up. They'd won promotion back to the first division
after an absence of six years.
All 50,000 fans wanted to see their team,
and in particular, their manager, Terry Venables,
who's brought success to South London
out of a team that cost next to nothing.
You were gonna get swamped if you didn't get off the pitch
cos they all just piled on the pitch and it was a great sight,
it was a really, really great sight.
We'd built a tremendous team, like the Chelsea side of my youth days,
it was based on young players, and became dubbed
"the team of the '80s", as we made our way up
to the first division.
Go on, let's do it again.
Terry Venables' belief is that successful leadership
can come only from personal stability.
He as never strayed far from his home community in East London,
and keeps his family sheltered in their home
on the edge of Epping Forest, away from the publicity
that seems to follow the football hero.
Make it go, hit it hard.
In East London, he has a community of interests.
This little shop, for example, he bought for his wife's parents.
- How are you, OK?Fine, yeah. - Good.
You seem to be involved in the community
and your in-laws and your parents, they're all in business together.
What's gonna happen? Are you prepared to take on
the job of being a football manager of Scunthorpe or Newcastle
- or Manchester? - Yeah, that wouldn't bother me.
If you think about something enough, you've gotta be prepared
to go where the job calls. How long are you gonna stay at Crystal Palace?
How long will they be able to keep you at Crystal Palace?
I don't know, I don't know about that. I'm quite happy here.
I'm more than happy, and until anything else happens,
I'll be quite happy to stay here.
Come on!
Crystal Palace now are at the bottom of the first division,
however, the Palace manager, Terry Venables,
told me afterwards that this was the first time
that he felt that Palace had played badly this season.
I just felt as if the team
started off quite spritely, full of confidence
and played away, and then, when it didn't break for us,
I thought as the game went on they felt they weren't gonna do it,
and they just felt a bit down and thought, "It's not for us today",
and that's the last time I wanna see that, because you gotta fight
right the way through if we're gonna make it happen.
As soon as things started turning sour at Palace,
then Terry disappeared and we just lost direction.
We always thought his brain worked at, sort of, 200 miles an hour,
and he was doing, you know, all of these things,
he had all these issues - well, or side businesses.
He had pubs, didn't he, you know,
it's hard enough thinking about football all the time,
then to add all these other things going on in his head.
I think, probably, they were a bit confused
as to why, suddenly, you've gone really well
and then, within a year, it's gone out the window.
When I come out the board meeting I very seriously thought about,
"I didn't feel there was confidence." I'm always onto the players about
sticking together, and to be fair to them, they've been unbelievable,
right the way through it, even last week at Sunderland,
they were great. They've stuck together and I've just felt
people around the top of me hadn't stuck together.
If they'd took the leaf out of the book of the players
I think everything would be fine.
He called me aside and said, "What would you think if I left?"
And I said, "Well, I think we'd be devastated."
You know, he's got a good young side there, and possibly,
with the right additions, we could've gone on
and had a better run. But obviously, he had plans to go elsewhere.
After more than the usual flurry of rumour and counter rumour
earlier this week, Venables finally agreed on Tuesday evening
to become the new manager of Queens Park Rangers.
(READS) "Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack,
who decided to go out into the world and make a name for himself.
Now, Jack didn't have much money." (LAUGHING)
Listen, listen. "Jack didn't have much money,
but he was ambitious. So, one day, he set out
and went looking for a giant to kill."
The idea of going to China to prepare for a tournament
in your backyard was agreed to by Terry
because he thought that the pressure
on the players, if we sat at home,
would be all the greater.
Chairman Mao once said, "Until you've climbed the Great Wall,
you're not a man." Today, England's footballers
did their best to meet the challenge,
an experience that took their breath away.
(EXHALES)
The idea was to go up by cable car. It was a game plan that went wrong.
How's that jetlag, lads?
I think we took a wrong turn and finished up walking all the way,
- but there you go. - So, having flown halfway across the world
and walked halfway across the Great Wall,
tomorrow, the England team will be asked to play football.
A very select number of reporters fly out
for what turns into, arguably the most memorable
week of English football off the field
there's been in a very long time.
I could see the logic of them going over there,
cos Terry Venables wanted to take the players away,
have a bonding trip, and the bonding was not simply on the pitch
but was off the pitch.
This was part of the Venables ethos.
This is about building a team spirit before the tournament.
We played a couple of games over there. We played a select 11
in an absolute awful game,
when you consider, within less than two weeks,
we were going into a major finals,
with the expectation we might win it,
which we were so far away from that it was scary.
It started to go wrong when we went to Hong Kong.
Terry was quite calm about it. He said, "Lads, you can go out."
He gave us the green light to do that.
I remember sitting with Gareth Southgate
and saying, "Gareth, have a night in tonight. I can see all the warning signs."
And he just said, "Look, when I've been away with England in the past,
when there's been a night out, you'd have thought the lads
had never been for a drink before in their lives."
I kinda think, when you go to a nightclub, as long as you don't
get into any punch-ups or it's kicking off,
then everything's OK.
A bit of relacing, a bit of bonding,
a bit of team spirit. It didn't go quite according to plan.
But sometimes you gotta let off steam as young men
and probably, the steam went a little bit too far.
Can laugh about it now but we weren't laughing about it then.
It wasn't just events out there.
They even got into trouble - at 30,000 feet. - Cathay Pacific.
What went on CX-whatever it was!
I'm not sure whether there was one player actually in the overhead locker
at one stage. I think a screen got broken somewhere along the lines.
I was asleep. Fast asleep.
REPORTER: Reports suggest that Paul Gascoigne's 29th birthday
celebrations were at the centre of the trouble.
You could smell the bloodlust.
You could just tell this wasn't gonna go well.
For the FA with Euro '96 getting ever closer,
the bad publicity is embarrassing.
They're all good players, and I'm very pleased with all of them.
And it's not a nice one, but there you go.
They know and been first class.
The general consensus is that the England squad
should've behaved better while representing their country abroad.
Terry Venables did something very clever. First of all,
they cooked up this collective responsibility defence,
which was one deflection, "We're all in this together,
we're not gonna name names. Nobody's gonna be individually punished for this."
Today, the England squad has accepted
collective responsibility for what happened.
Then his second trick was to say,
"It's OK for you lot, you know, you're setting in your press box.
You don't have to go out there representing your country."
And he turned it right round.
I've not had one problem in two and a half years from these boys.
And I think that the treatment they've had
is disgraceful. End of story.
Now let's get on with the show.
Are you accepting that damage was caused?
I'm not accepting anything. If you've got any proof... Have you?
Photographs? Photographs?
Oh, you take their word but you don't take ours,
- is that what it is? - I'm just asking for your opinion.
Well, I'll give it. OK, that's fine. Any football questions?
When you look at, you're the England manager
going into a major tournament, your team have been out,
that have got in tabloids, they've broken aeroplanes,
your team have been bloody dog awful,
the pressure that he was under, you know, he handled it
as if it was water off a duck's back and not a problem.
You know, that's great management
of everybody around him. How he handled the FA as well.
REPORTER: This is the time we've all been waiting for.
At last we shall get boots on ball in earnest,
and Euro '96 will be underway.
There's obviously huge hope and anticipation,
ahead of any tournament. There's more expectation
because you're the home team. Ours was the first game of the tournament
so there's all the hullabaloo around that.
We knew this is a team that we're expected to beat,
but actually, a good team with some very good players.
It's building up for this. This is the real thing,
this is what we've been preparing for.
We just hope that we're gonna be successful,
and we're ready to start.
I was under huge pressure. I hadn't scored for England,
so it was hard enough going out to play my tournament anyway,
let alone having not scored for two years,
but Terry just made me feel at ease, he made me feel
very, very confident.
He had the belief to come to me before we went across
to the Far East prior to Euro '96,
and he said to me, "Whatever happens, you will be
my number one centre forward for that first game."
And I just stood back and thought, "Wow."
For this man, for this manager to have that amount of belief
and faith in me, when I hadn't scored,
I had to repay him. I couldn't let him down.
That's going.
It wasn't a great performance from us.
It was a bit of a flat game.
Find Shearer, finds it.
And it was just when I got into the position,
it was basically, "I'm not passing this,
this is head down, hit as hard as you can,
make sure you hit the target."
It comes through now. And it's goal for Alan Shearer.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
When that ball went in,
it was just, that's it,
the weight and the pressure and everything else
was off of my shoulders, and every forward will tell you,
when you've been on a barren run,
that one-to-one comes along, then you're pretty confident
the next one will come along.
England really back on their heels at the moment.
They claim a penalty. It's given.
A penalty for Switzerland,
conceded by Stuart Pearce.
This is a major problem now for England.
Turkyilmaz has made it 1-1.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Well, let's hear from the England coach, Terry Venables.
He's down there with Gary Newbon. Terry, it was a very harsh
penalty decision Pearce doesn't even seem to know it'll hit him.
I didn't think it was a penalty. In saying that,
we haven't played well second half, we're dead on our feet,
and both teams looked very tired at second half,
and it just looked like it was gonna fizzle out to hopefully a 1-nil.
But it's a disappointment. It's not the result we were looking for.
The expressions on the England faces say it all.
It's dejection once again at the end of the first game
of a major tournament.
Terry was totally against having a big reaction in the dressing rooms
straight after the game, and a lot calmer
around the defeats, the things that went wrong
than maybe I was used to. We were trying to work things through
and find solutions to things, rather than be punished
for making a mistake.
For Gordon Williams, long-time journalist
and author of a string of novels including the hugely-successful
Straw Dogs, the agonising search for a plot line
is only too familiar. But for Terry Venables,
a professional footballer since his school days, and now,
one of the most highly paid managers in the game,
the connection with creative writing is not so obvious.
This guy, he must be quite something, mustn't he.
I mean, you know, not only top footballer,
FA Cup winner's medal, but he writes books.
You know, awe, respect, admiration.
Football's a hard graft, but I think the hard graft
of writing a book, that is tremendously difficult.
Come on!
He's somebody whose education ended
very abruptly at 15, really.
And which left him
with a lot of talents which are undeveloped,
all because he was so great at football.
And I think that's where his longing to write came from.
No-one actually believe, when we wrote the novel,
that I had anything to do with the writing of it.
And they still don't. When I get linked with Hazell
people just say, "Did you actually...?
Did you actually have anything to do with it?" They don't like to say,
"You know, a sweaty, moronic footballer, what can he do?"
You know, any managers would normally say to players,
"Focus on your football, forget everything else,
get married really young, avoid all distractions."
I think there was a feeling
that people within football
should stay within football.
He can't be... I don't think he can be too wealthy,
cos I think he's gonna be the sort of guy that's...
that's not gonna work.
I do wonder whether if there hadn't been
that sort of, "Ooh, it's just a gimmick", reception,
whether Terry would actually have, sort of,
bothered to write any more.
I do wonder whether he was galvanised,
so determined to prove that he could actually do this.
You know, he'd conquered the world in football,
so now he wanted to conquer the world of literature.
Good evening. Mr Clifford Avery?
- Yeah? - My name's James Hazell.
My name is James Hazell.
My name's James Hazell.
My name is James Hazell. (LAUGHS)
What I loved about Hazell was the tone of voice.
I mean, sort of streetwise, cheerful,
knowing your way around, thinking yourself as good as the next man.
I put a lot of that down to Terry Venables.
I admired Gordon Williams, but the sense of London in Hazell,
the sense that skill would get you a long way,
and you needn't really be put down by anybody, came from Terry.
He's been through a lot of things and he's in the stage
where he's lost a lot of the things that were important to him.
And he don't really care too much. He's a little bit cynical,
but he's funny. I think you'd like his company.
They say cockneys don't travel well.
Why should we, when we're there.
Yes, I know, darling.
Positively sick-making.
(READS) "A couple of hours later, I was going into the lift
in the big new office block in High Holborn.
The fine old legal firm of Venables, Venables, Williams and Gregory
Solicitors occupied the whole of the sixth floor."
Peel him off a pony, would you, - love. - A what?
- £25, love. - James.
(READS) "Gordon smiled patronisingly. It was a little joke
between us. Mainly on his side.
The difference in our backgrounds.
Gordon had been to Eton and one of those Oxford colleges
which they pronounced the opposite way from the spelling
just to keep us slobs guessing."
He always looks, perhaps, a little bit out of every sort of company,
and I think he's just above one set and just below one set.
He's trying to find himself, I think.
With educated people he comes on more cockney
and with cockney he becomes slightly more precise.
- Would that be correct? - That's right, - yeah. - Bit like yourself.
(CHUCKLES) That's right.
I will think that football is a full-time occupation
without writing books, and I think that he must have a hell of a lot
of energy to expend if he can go home at night
and he can do things like this.
He's also got other activities,
I believe, in a business sense,
so perhaps he's got a little bit more than me,
cos when I get home all I want to do is collapse.
Do you think he has any weaknesses at all?
He's paranoic, in the sense that
he always suspected me of...
..trying to be the number one in this partnership,
the writing partnership. I think he is a manager, he has to be in control.
So it was a bit of a rough ride for me at times.
There are people who seem to be multi-talented.
They got so many things that
they could probably have succeeded in
if they hadn't decided, "This is gonna be my main focus in life."
And I would put Terry very much in that category.
He wasn't totally a person
who was football and nothing but.
He had a lot of other strings to his bow.
(APPLAUSE)
So, now it's time for Mister Terry Venables to sing.
The song is called What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?
Terry Venables.(APPLAUSE)
♪ What do you wanna make those eyes at me for?
♪ If they don't mean what they say...
You also invented, didn't you, in the early '60s,
a thing called a Thingamewig.
In those days, on the Saturday, the ladies would go shopping
cos they'd all get ready to go out in the evenings on the town,
so rather than have the clips in and that,
they used to have this sort of puffy hat with a peak.
It was quite a nice corduroy or something like that,
and then velcro-ed inside was the hair hanging down, you see.
What, a hat with a wig in it? (LAUGHTER)
♪ You're fooling around with me now...
This is just for you, Terry, OK?
♪ Oh, that's all right
♪ I'll get you a lonesome night...
As if that's not enough, this is my latest pet project.
A board game.
Right, here we go.
OK.
(READS) "Football is a game, but it's also a business
and a big one at that."
The fact that the winner is the player with the most money at the end,
it's an interesting concept.
♪ If they don't mean what they say ♪
(APPLAUSE)
When I think about Euro '96 I always think about that game,
cos it meant so much to everybody.
Not just football people but general people,
the people going to work on a Monday morning.
You know, it changed our perspective
at the way they looked at life.
The pressure was building massively for the Scotland game,
because we'd only got a point, and now we know that
if we don't get anything from the Scotland game
we could be in trouble.
It was a game we had to win. As much as it was exciting,
it was also a bit nervy,
cos we knew if we lost that game
then we'd be going back to Hong Kong and what happened on the plane
and they'll be blaming El Tel and all this,
blaming all the players, and the nation would hate us.
When we actually arrived at the stadium and the atmosphere
was just phenomenal. I've never known anything like it, ever.
England always win games, normally, right back to '50s, at Wembley.
And the thing that I always wanted to do
was to do it my way,
and do it with style.
(WHISTLE BLOWS) Away we go.
Headlines going to war.
It's not that by any means but it is a very important
game of football for both these nations.
We weren't great the first half. We made a change,
I think he took Pearce off, if I remember rightly,
and brought Jamie on. He wanted to get the ball into Jamie,
it was a great pass, get the ball out wide,
hit balls in the box, put pressure on the Scottish team.
Credit to Jamie, he played extremely well,
and he was a big influence in the second half of the game,
I've gotta say, and it was a master stroke.
We went to a fall at the back and we thrived from it.
Terry had seen that we needed an extra body in midfield,
and did it work.
Finds Neville with it. Here's the cross coming in.
And England scores through Shearer.
We needed a little bit of luck. We got the goal, I got the header
from an unbelievable cross from Gary Neville,
and then the game changed.
They got a penalty.
And it was a very good save from David Seaman.
Terry changed the formation just to let Gazza
have a little bit more freedom, get him a little bit further forward.
My word, it paid off.
And Gazza with a ball was genius, and Terry knew that.
And Terry's experience in working with him beforehand,
he needed all of that to get the best out of Gazza.
As a player you get a front-row seat to watch
the best players that I've ever been involved in,
and I think the best player to wear an England shirt
since maybe Bobby Charlton,
illuminate a tournament.
It was just a sensational piece of skill.
(CHEERING)2-nil.
Would you believe it.
From one end of the field to the other.
The crowd are in raptures.
That changed the fortunes of the English national team
in that tournament. That was it, bang.
After that game, the press kinda eased off,
you know, the fans got right behind us.
And there was a different type of feeling
around the country.
I thought it was very emotional, and all the years I've been coming here,
I'd never heard such a sound and volume
that I heard today.
I mean, the crowd lifted us even more.
(CHEERING)
We're delighted to welcome Terry Venables.
(APPLAUSE)
I always thought, when I retire, if I do something less than work,
I'll host a chat show or something. Yeah.(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE) Would anything lure you away from Queens Park Rangers?
Erm... I'm very happy
at QP... (STAMMERING)
(LAUGHTER) I'm very happy at Queens Park Rangers.
I've been there three years, it's been three great years,
and I'm not looking, really, to go beyond that.
The success of QPR, coupled with the fact that I was managing director,
meant that I was a hair's breadth
away from my ambition to both own and manage a football club.
And then, I got the call from Spain.
We have a meeting with Alex Ferguson,
with Bobby Robson,
and with Terry Venables.
Those three that we meet,
we went for breakfast,
went for lunch and went for dinner.
When we had the meeting with Terry
we were thinking that Terry will be the perfect coach
that we need at the time in Barcelona.
I've always accepted challenges
and I've made no exception this time.
I've accepted a big one, and I intend to do well in this job.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
The guy said to me, "Well, you'll only have one year.
If you want more than one year, it's not possible."
I said, "Well, I want two years. Otherwise it's not possible."
There's no point in me making this type of break
and not getting the time I should have to make the job work.
He said,
"We'd like to think of you to think of Barcelona as your chica."
Which means your girlfriend...
"We'd like to think... Do you love your chica?"
So, I said, "Yes, very much."
I said, "Very much... Does the chica love me?"
He said, "Oh, yes, very much!"
"Well, why do you want to get rid of me in a year?!"
Everybody keeps talking about Maradona.
There are other players in Barcelona,
very good players.
What will you do?
Well, I am gonna make sure that the system of play will be my system of play
and it will be with the players of Barcelona Football Club,
nothing to do with Maradona.
Several players in my mind,
and I will decide over the next week or two which one will replace him.
Maradona went,
and there was a position to be filled,
and I think I know more about Archibald than I know about anybody else.
I just think that it's common sense.
This way, I'm very confident of what Archibald is capable of doing.
Think there was about 60,000 fans for the presentation.
Well, the word that Terry said was a speech in Catalan,
which was unbelievable.
(CHEERING)
When Terry came here,
they said this Englishman they found on the beach...
But obviously,
the players read the newspapers and they don't know who he is really either.
They're experienced pros,
they're not really looking at Terry Venables, whoever he might be,
coming from a little club in England.
They're not convinced.
They're quite tough,
and they put you to the test all the time,
which is not a bad thing.
I mean, it's all obviously very important here,
because the amount of competitions in the newspapers...
Training ground from day one was about defence,
and if I tell you that he convinced a really experienced back four
on how to play his system within ten days, two weeks...
That's an amazing thing to do.
It was a Clasico.
It was the first game of the season.
Players thinking,
"Oh, my God, we're away to Real Madrid!"
But Terry flipped it on its head in one day.
He said to everybody in the dressing room,
"Listen, this is an amazing way to start the season.
We go and beat Madrid, then we're off to a flyer."
When we got back to the hotel, we was having a dinner
and one or two people said,
"You won't appreciate what's going on in Barcelona."
And it wasn't till the next day they told me that they gather in a place called the Ramblas,
and there's virtually 10,000 people there to celebrate together,
and the hooting of the horns and the dancing and...
And you know, that would normally happen on a cup final,
but this is the first game of the season,
but it's Madrid, so it's understandable!
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
(APPLAUSE) Good luck...
♪ I've got you under my skin
After that, they loved him out there.
He couldn't really do no wrong.
And then he won the league, so he was like a god out there!
♪ So deep in my heart
♪ You're really a part of me...
To win the league is very important,
but to win the league after ten years...
It's a little more important!
The trouble with winning is that people expect MORE of the winning.
And then more still...
In football, if you win, you are god.
If you lose, you are... I don't know, el diablo!
He was definitely ahead of the game.
Hundred percent ahead of the game,
um, because if you're not, you can't come here and do what he did.
♪ And I've got you under my skin... ♪
It was an amazing achievement,
and I don't think he's been given enough credit for it.
(CATALAN RADIO REPORT)
This is Radio Catalunya Sport.
With the new season only a few weeks away,
Barcelona's manager Terry Venables has signed two of his British compatriots,
England's 25-year-old World Cup hero Gary Lineker
and Welsh international Mark Hughes.
There's no doubt in my mind,
I brought here two outstanding players.
But you can't expect to come to this level and tell a fairy tale.
Hopefully we'll be able to tell a fairy tale at the end,
or we might not,
but at least we've had the chance, all of us,
to pit our wits against the situation and talent.
In my case, wits. In their case, talent.
(LAUGHING)
Terry won the league comfortably in his first season.
He came in and played a different kind of football
that they hadn't seen there before.
They loved him.
And then he went all the way to the final of the European Cup.
It was gonna be the first win in Barcelona's history.
And then it was the most dismal penalty shoot-out...
Barcelona missed every single penalty.
(DISTANT CONVERSATION IN SPANISH)
Come on, for God's sake...
Terry, it's a hell of a way to lose.
I suppose asking your feelings is asking an obvious question, really.
You must be very disappointed.
Very disappointed,
we felt we had done enough to win the game.
So, you now have to stay for two more years!
You've got to win the championship and try again!
Oh, dear... Let's just get over tonight first.
What are you gonna do?
I'm gonna have a large drink, if I can get near a bar.
I'll let you go.
Thanks very much, mate. Thanks for putting a smile on. Well, I tried...
Catalunya was in mourning.
They couldn't believe it.
The road twists and turns when you come to a place like this.
You can actually win 20 on the trot,
lose two...it's a crisis.
The most important thing is to get your own head right,
and all the other stuff around you is superficial.
Terry's a great coach.
He was the most innovative and thoughtful coach that I ever played for.
If you close 'em hard there,
and as he turns around to knock back,
Gary's got the angle now to cut that off,
and they like to show that they can play in tight situations.
They won't just welt it out of the ground and say...
You know, that's like they've lost a mark,
so now they're playing around, want to fanny a little bit,
you know, in the corners,
and that's our chance of gettin' them.
He understood me, he understood how I liked to work.
He understood that I like to think about my game a lot,
so we talked about my game a lot.
And he would always push me in training...
(WHISTLING) Gary!
You shouldn't be offside there! Look right along the line!
I think Terry revolutionised football.
People talk about, you know,
the high press in particular as a new thing...
You know, Klopp's done it and the Germans do it...
Terry, he was doing this 30 years ago!
And it was exactly that...
(FRANTIC SPANISH COMMENTARY)
Gol, gol, gol, gol, gol, gol, gol!
Lineker, Lineker, Lineker, Lineker, Lineker!
Terry was constantly trying to think of something new,
something innovative,
something that might break the mould,
that might make a difference.
We used to meet up with him for lunch and stuff,
and Manolo's restaurants,
his big friend,
and they were always talking business.
Most of their conversations were about business,
restaurants, property...
I don't think it affects your coaching in any way shape or form,
but it obviously affected him further down the line,
in terms of where it kind of went wrong.
I think, to be perfectly honest,
losing the European Cup final against Steaua Bucharest
was kind of it for him...
I think it was hard to come back from that.
For Barcelona, it's not good enough, second.
And we were second in the league.
And I think after that, his days were numbered.
It doesn't take much at Barcelona for them to get unhappy.
And when you go out on the pitch, you have to entertain them.
If they're not happy, they'll wave the white hankies.
Los panuelos blancos...
And when they... (LAUGHS)
When they're waving them at you, that's a bad sign!
I think maybe he peaked too soon, I don't know!
It was three years we were there,
so I think that was quite a long time for Barcelona.
And we were ready to come home, anyway.
Terry and Dutch football...yeah.
Without a doubt, the Spanish and Dutch,
I think he had a good feeling about how they played the game,
how he wanted us to play the game.
I actually normally looked a lot at Holland anyway.
I knew all about them,
and I wanted to see what they're like.
A lot of the continent,
especially Holland and Germany,
they seem to have a great know-how with the ball
and we feel that perhaps we've been left behind a little bit.
So, what they were doing now a lot, players having a ball each.
Really just getting to know the ball, getting the feel of it.
These are the type of exercises we're doing now.
Holland were, in footballing terms...
I mean, they were a giant and had some INCREDIBLE players.
So, he was determined to have his tactics right,
to have his team ready and prepared.
Terry would watch the Dutch
and say the way Bergkamp dropped off into areas,
let people run beyond him...
It wasn't just a 4-4-2 formation.
You have to move players, you have to ask them questions.
No one thought we could outplay the Dutch.
No one.
You know, when we all go back to the hotels,
sitting round the table, have dinner,
and you start thinking, "Right... Got the Dutch comin' up.
Wow... That's tough.
How are we gonna play?
What's the gaffer gonna do?
How's he gonna set us up?"
So, we're thinking,
"Well, gonna be ten men behind the ball
then we'll try and nick it and try and break and..."
You know, completely the opposite.
Completely the opposite...
♪ It's comin' home, it's comin'...
♪ Football's comin' home ♪
Tonight, the Wembley crowd and the whole nation are behind the England team,
with just a single point needed for a place in the quarter-finals.
Even now, people still talk about how special that game was.
I mean, that was probably the best atmosphere
I experienced as an England player.
That night was UNBELIEVABLE.
I mean, the England flags were flying,
everyone was singing, everyone was happy.
It was just an unbelievable night.
I remember Terry saying to me before we went out,
"Listen, Paul,
make sure you don't let Gazza keep going on forward all the time.
He's gotta pick his runs.
But sometimes, you know, I want you to go.
Because they expect you to sit there,
so they're not gonna pick you up."
And Ince...
..who finds Sheringham...
Sheringham then releases McManaman!
So, I just picked it up, played it once, it went out to Macca.
And as I went into the edge of the 18-yard box,
I can see him comin' and I just did a little twist...
Ince has gone down! A penalty!
A penalty for England!
And England have a great opportunity!
Also, I got kicked in the balls at the same time,
which wasn't nice, but it didn't matter.
It was the perfect start.
Shearer now...it's 1-0 England!
After that, you could just see us walking seven foot tall.
The perfect penalty!
Three games, three goals, Alan Shearer!
1-0 England!
Alan Shearer was the best striker in England at the time,
without a doubt.
But I'm a number ten, I'm a striker,
I need to score goals as well.
Sheringham!
It's 2-0!
What a super header!
I get asked about it so often,
you know, it must have been your best moment.
How can it not be?
Playing for England at Wembley against the Dutch,
destroying 'em at their own game,
playing the way we did in a major competition...
It was just the perfect scenario to put on a performance like we did.
What a night this is proving to be at the moment.
There's a lot of emphasis placed on teams that press now.
You talk about Liverpool, how they have done it,
talk about Man City when they lose the ball,
or Barcelona...
But we did that in '96 with Terry.
Terry was ahead of everyone.
Now Gascoigne...
Maybe he'll leave his imprint on this game tonight...
That third goal was just picture-perfect for us.
Gazza slipped the ball to me,
and as it rolled to me,
I thought to myself,
"Great, I've got a chance of scoring my second goal."
But out the corner of my eye,
I can see the defender breaking his neck to stop me having a shot.
So, I know that if he's breaking his neck to come from there,
I know that Shearer's gonna be on his own.
Sheringham again...
And Shearer... And it's 3-0!
When you do things in training,
the collection and the work you do is all prepared
to go from small things to bigger things to better things,
and trying to get that EXACTLY as you want it.
But we were too much for 'em.
I think that summed up what we were, who we were.
It summed up the team spirit,
it summed up the way Terry wanted us to play.
It was a great team goal.
I was just fortune enough to be on the end of it.
We could see the Dutch going,
"We're the ones meant to be playing football here, not England."
It was one of those games where everyone was 10/10.
You had to be 10/10.
We was enjoying it...
It was just free-flowing football.
It was just like no one had a care in the world.
It was just playing to our abilities.
Oh, and a deflection and a super save!
And Sheringham...it's four!
What you see is England moving the ball around sweetly, naturally,
quickly, fluently,
in a way that you've very, very rarely seen from an England team.
And if you want the performance that defines
the best of Terry Venables as an England manager,
it was that game against Holland.
Because they absolutely destroyed Holland.
I've never seen a performance like that from an England team.
Never...
Where does last night's satisfaction rate in your career, Terry?
(CHUCKLES) Very highly!
I mean, it was very satisfying to play so well
against a team so good.
And it was always gonna be a good football match,
um, it was never gonna be anything but that.
But if the boys hadn't have got it right,
it would have been us running around and us trailing.
So, that was the satisfying point of it.
The previous tournament, the 1994 World Cup in America,
England hadn't qualified for it.
Two years later, they're tearing Holland to shreds in the final group game
and starting to make people think they're going to win a trophy
for the first time in 30 years.
We've just done to the Dutch what they normally do to everybody else.
We've got a chance of winning this.
It's recent history now that Spurs called me while I was away in Florida,
and before you could have said 'Chris Waddle'
here I am at White Hart Lane.
There's a trope in the life of a Spurs fan.
You're waiting for the messiah.
Every time there's a new manager, you think this is it!
You know, "We're gonna win the title again!"
And we come to the day that Terry Venables arrives at Spurs,
and he is the messiah!
Now, what about Tottenham?
You've had no money to spend this summer.
Thought you were gonna give me a few quid there, the way you said that!
(LAUGHTER)
Correct...
But they also lost money in other off the field activities.
That's right, that's right.
You know, the debt spiral at Spurs is in crisis really...
And Spurs are in the FA Cup final.
But of course, in the background,
Spurs are also going deeper and deeper into debt.
And unbeknown to the fans,
the night before the cup final,
Terry Venables was trying to get together a consortium to buy the club
off of Irving Scholar.
Paul Stewart with a chance for Spurs!
And the equaliser!
Spurs have won the FA Cup for a record eighth time!
Here's the man... Look at Terry Venables!
Goodness me...
Even though we were celebrating in style,
standing there,
I couldn't help thinking,
"Would all be well for the future of this great club?"
I happened to know Terry Venables,
so I just picked up the phone to ask to speak to him...
..uh, knowing that he was kind of putting together some consortium of some kind.
And that's it...
Mad, no?
The Spurs manager Terry Venables
and millionaire businessman Alan Sugar
have taken control of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
When he took on Spurs and went in on the first day,
he had a nasty surprise,
because I think he found now that he was now moving with people from an ENTIRELY different world.
Well, I think that Terry, in hindsight must have thought...
"Oh, there's this rich bloke coming along
who wants to own a football club."
And so, if you think that,
you can also think,
"Stick him in the corner, give him a couple of seats there.
That'll be it... He'll be happy.
Give us the money and off we go."
Alan Sugar had thought Terry was going to manage the football side,
while he, Alan Sugar, looked after the business side.
But then Terry announces that he's not gonna be a hands-on manager.
And this isn't what Alan Sugar was expecting.
He said to me, "There can't be two bosses."
And it was just a simple matter that we clashed a lot.
We did clash,
perhaps worse than I've ever clashed with anyone else.
It's Terry's heart's desire to become the first former footballer
to have control of his own club.
And that's where it starts to go wrong.
Total clash of egos...
I mean, you can imagine, can't you?
Come December '91, Alan writes a new shares issue,
which gives him more control of the club.
The relationship between the two men dissolved into bickering
and boardroom rows.
Off the pitch, things had got so bad
either the chairman or his chief executive had to go.
You can see that this is gonna get worse and worse,
and it DOES get worse and worse,
to the point of a board meeting at White Hart Lane
where Alan Sugar...
..hands Terry Venables a letter,
asking him to resign, sell his shares
and leave the club.
This is a huge shock, isn't it?
(CLAMOURING)
Mister Venables is no longer employed by Tottenham Hotspur's PLC.
We don't want him there,
the board of directors don't want him there,
and if I have anything to do with it,
he is not coming back there at all.
Sugar voted to dismiss me,
and I am talking and have been talking to solicitors.
Um, and I'm advised that's all I can say at this moment,
I'm afraid.
He wouldn't let it drop.
He wouldn't give in.
And there was a lot of dirt being thrown around about him,
which wasn't true.
And I think that damaged his reputation.
The fans' favourite went to the High Court to seek reinstatement,
but the judges were unmoved.
The judge just says,
"Well, you know, there's no reason why Spurs can't sack their chief executive,
so that's it..."
Venables is thrown overboard.
I think I've always got on well with football people,
even the press, if they're football people...
The ones I've fallen out with and I don't get on with are not football people.
The way it ended at Spurs was his lowest point.
I think he was, um, hurt.
I think it was the worst time in his career.
You respect him as a football man but not as a businessman?
Well...
No one's ever disputed his footballing ability.
We've got another game to play against a very good opposition.
Um, they're developing all the time, but we've laid our plans out
and hopefully we're in fine fettle.
There was huge expectation of us, going into the Spain game.
Everyone believed we were gonna go and steamroller them.
If we felt as though life was gonna be easy,
we were brought straight back down to earth again.
They were the better team on the day, no doubt about that.
And the flag has stayed down!
Manjarin, there's a chance here!
Oh, and David Seaman right out of his goal
and Pearce coming back to save the day!
It wasn't the best spectacle.
It was a grind, again.
Maybe two very tactical managers cancelling each other out.
As the final whistle goes,
and what we're gonna get now is a penalty shoot-out.
I didn't wanna put pressure on 'em, you know?
You know what it's like,
people think, "I can't take a penalty!"
Those that want to take a penalty, it's great,
and you know through experience,
if you make someone take a penalty that don't want to take a penalty,
he will say, "I can't take penalties."
Or you see it in their eyes... Yeah, right.
So, it's a matter of what's between the ears...
Two hours of football had ended.
We've come to a situation where we all joined together.
I knew that I had to get to Terry and put my services forward.
I couldn't live with myself if I didn't, you know, with my history.
Stuart Pearce,
who's done the job for Nottingham Forest...
Can he do it for England?
He can't!
In 1990,
Pearce is one of two England players to miss penalties
against Germany at the end of a World Cup.
We were all aware of what had happened in the '90 World Cup,
and for him to put himself forward...
And he wanted to,
you could tell there was a drive there,
you could tell there was a hurt...
I went straight up to Terry and said,
"Look, I'll take the third one."
Terry looked back at me and went, "Are you fuckin' sure?"
I went, "Yeah." He said, "OK, lovely."
So, we come to the penalty shoot-out...
Shearer first to go against Zubizarreta,
and he does it, 1-0!
He's missed it!
David Platt now for England...
(CHEERING) 2-0!
This is a big, big penalty now for Spain.
Oh, and he took it very cleverly...
Well, Stuart Pearce is up.
Nobody really wants to see him miss it...
At Italia '90, you saw him exposed and heartbroken.
And you thought,
"Let's hope he finds a way out of that one day."
Six years later, there he goes again,
walks up to the penalty spot...
I mean, I was nervous...
But I had a feeling that the stadium was more nervous than I was.
When I saw Stuart Pearce walking down to take a penalty,
I was like, "Oh, my God... Please score!"
I've never wanted anybody to score so much!
The whole of the stadium just held their breath...
They were on my journey with me.
Three out of three for England!
There was a split second of calm
and then a reaction of just sheer relief.
(CHEERING) Wow, he's fired up for that!
It wasn't his best penalty, he'll tell you that,
I'm sure he will!
He didn't strike it brilliantly!
But it went in,
and then when he starts swearing and "COME ON"...
He's looking right at me and I'm like...
(LAUGHS) "Oh, God!"
We were all so proud of him,
that he buried it with the passion that he did,
and celebrated it in style as well.
It's the only picture that involves football I've got on my wall in my house.
And it reminds me of the journey I was on.
And it probably reminds me of learning from failure.
Terry, what a roller-coaster, what a result!
Yeah, it was everything that you would want in an event like that.
I think everyone got their money's worth,
guts and courage and passion,
everything that you needed to dig out a result.
And I'm not really apologising for winning on penalties...
I've been on the other end of that, and it's fierce.
There were people who found Venables difficult,
there was no doubt about that.
They did not feel that he should be the coach of the England national team.
Terry Venables informed today the Football Association
that he intends to leave his job as coach of the senior England team
at the end of his contract
after the European Championship finals this June.
As it drifted into Euro '96,
every single legal action, virtually,
apart from the tiny ones,
were still there, every libel action,
including actions with Spurs and Alan Sugar.
And we just had to keep managing them,
and I don't quite know how he managed to separate it
and keep his sort of brave, happy face on through the football.
I think, without the legal issues, he'd have got a four-year contract.
Every other manager, after two years,
they would extend his contract.
But the FA was just reticent.
He was so upset that they didn't extend it to the World Cup.
He felt betrayed.
There were individuals on the international committee
that clearly didn't want Terry to carry on.
And Terry wasn't happy with that,
he didn't want to be fighting that battle as well.
We thought with all the battles going on outside, it should be unanimous.
And he didn't feel he'd done anything
to show he wasn't the right person to be the England manager through the World Cup.
Thank you, Terry. Thank you.
The honest answer to the question of did Terry regret his decision...
I suspect deep down he regretted it.
But his...
He had pride, he thought he was right.
It's like...why?
Because he's so good!
You know?
And it was disappointing for that reason that we're losing him.
So, it was a strange feeling.
Obviously, I would want to leave the job on a successful note
and I will be doing everything in my power to, uh, make it successful.
They suddenly realised, the FA board,
that they had thrown away the architect of England's arguably greatest night in 30 years.
Who was gonna be blamed for it?
They would have been terrified of England winning!
It was definitely a bittersweet feeling.
Terry was about to leave us,
and we all felt like we deserved to win this tournament not only for ourselves,
but for Terry as well and what he'd given us all.
Terry, it's the biggest game in England for 30 years.
How comfortably does that sit on your shoulders?
Well, it's obviously high pressured.
Uh, there's a lot of expectancy.
Everyone also knows what a good side they are,
but we're ready.
What does it mean to you personally?
Well, it means the same to me as I should think it means to every Englishman.
We're all very proud of the way the team's gone so far,
and we hope to continue.
Terry wanted us to relax,
he wanted us to go out and try and enjoy it as much as we could.
He wanted us to go and take the game to the opposition,
defend when we had to, stick together when we had to.
He had us ready for all of that.
For us, it's the biggest game of our careers.
Um, and really and truly...
Everybody's saying how well we've done to reach the point that we have,
but it's not good enough for us.
We won't be content unless we pick that trophy up on Sunday.
We knew the magnitude of the game.
Terry didn't have to manage expectation, you know?
It was Germany...
England by then actually deep down had developed an inferiority complex,
in relation to Germany.
English football had stuttered along for 30 years,
and German football had raced over the horizon.
So, deep down, there was an envy and an insecurity in the England setup.
So, at the start of it,
there was a justifiable sense that this might be the end of this 30-year turnaround
and England could turn this back in their favour.
We've got the whole nation behind us.
Everyone was with us.
We created an unbelievable atmosphere,
a party atmosphere.
And I think the whole country was hugely proud.
It's escalating, every time we played,
every day you woke up...
You're reading the papers, you're watching the news, watching TV programmes.
Everyone's talking about it,
"It's gonna happen, football's comin' home."
And then you'd turn up at Wembley
and there'd be just thousands of people all waiting
just to see the coach going up into the tunnel!
People hanging out of houses, hanging out of pubs,
on the streets the cars were stopping and beeping.
More police patrol to get us there...
And you know, you could sense it.
You could sense it was just electric.
You could sense that everybody believed.
We felt we really got the detail right,
we felt we could outplay them the way they were playing
and they way we were set up.
And there was a steely attitude,
knowing that this game can be ours this time.
And I really did feel confident, quietly...
Well, I think a lot of those memorable moments in your life...
You really vividly see the colours.
And Wembley, being as green as it is,
the colours in the stands,
you can really sense those pictures in your mind.
♪ It's comin' home, it's comin' home
♪ It's comin' home... ♪
England have to switch... (CHEERING)
Ince with the volley!
Fisted away by Kopke!
That was a terrific strike by Paul Ince!
A bright start for England...
Gascoigne with the corner.
This one was a set piece.
This one was something we'd worked on in training.
In towards the near post, a little flick-on...
It's a goal for England!
Alan Shearer!
Shearer has done it again!
His fifth goal in five games!
Delight for the English fans
and THE perfect start!
We've been really deadly from set pieces,
but of all people to leave unmarked, Alan Shearer!
In your naive player's mind,
you think, "We're off and running here!"
You know, "Here we go, the dream's unfolding."
We couldn't have hoped for anything better than that, could we?
We really couldn't.
And really, payment in full for Terry Venables.
There was a mentality between both teams, I think,
that whoever won this picks up the trophy.
Here's Reuter...
Moller's in there, but he's surrounded by grey shirts.
I remember the ball got crossed in and he just had a side-footer,
but it was like a side-footer with pace...
It's 1-1!
Well, that is a major blow...
It proper flew into the goal, you know?
And I've got no chance...
After that, it was tight...
They could have won it, should have won it.
We could have won it, should have won it...
Shearer's header! Just wide!
Then we go into golden goal time...
They were getting tired.
Played down the line...
And Darren Anderton was coming at the angle,
and I just think he's kinda scuffed it.
And Anderton...!
Oh, he's hit the post!
They can't believe it, look...
I think the ball was just behind him,
he tried to get his foot round it
and just managed to get his foot round it enough,
but only enough to hit the post.
Basically, the post is there and he's there!
He can't miss it!
Um, and he bloody did...
England get possession, played now to Teddy Sheringham.
The chance that everyone remembers for me is the one that Gazza had.
I still have nightmares about that now.
Shearer on the far side...
On for the volley...
Oh!
It was just that split second where Gazza stops...
JUST for that split second,
and that's why he's not able to get the contact on it.
Gascoigne went flying in there,
and it looked as though it needed just the merest touch!
You know, a little toe poke would have had us in ecstasy.
But... Ifs and buts, innit?
Up and down the country,
if you're not on the edge of your seat,
I'm sure that's where you are now.
There were some fantastic penalties that night.
You know, one after the other, Shearer got us on our way.
(CHEERING) 1-0!
Pearcey...
Gazza...
Platty...
So, I'm on penalty number five.
I've gotta tell you, it's the most nervous I've been on a football pitch EVER.
So, Teddy Sheringham...
(WHISTLE BLOWS) Long run-up...
But will it be a successful conclusion?
There's your answer!
The relief and the ecstasy all in one feeling...
Was just sort of drained, but elated at the same time
that I'm not gonna be remembered for the rest of my life
as that fella that missed the penalty.
Once you go past five, you're now searching...
But I knew in my mind who was gonna be my next two or three people.
And yet, I didn't wanna put pressure on 'em.
You want volunteers, really.
I just remember Bryan Robson coming up to me and saying,
"If it goes to a sixth penalty, are you happy to take one?"
And you know,
I've been captain of every club I've played for
and I've always felt responsibility.
And if you're asked to step forward, in my head you step forward.
Everyone wants to know, always, about who didn't wanna take 'em.
I will take that to the grave with me.
I won't... I won't...
Because we were collective responsibility right the way through.
But Southgate, he was looking at me,
where one or two maybe wasn't... (LAUGHS)
And, uh, he's a good striker of the ball.
Well, he's only just recently forced his way into the England side,
Southgate...
Norden, they call him at Aston Villa.
He does everything right.
Well, let's hope he can do this right as well.
When Gareth walked up, I was like,
"Hang on a minute,
I've not even seen him take a penalty in training!"
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
Saved it!
Oh, my word...
The period straight afterwards, my head was scrambled, really...
All you can think about is the team,
all the supporters...
Um, the fact that you know the country had been on this high
and ultimately,
as the person on the spot at the time,
you feel responsible for that.
And suddenly,
England's dreams of European glory are beginning to fade...
UNLESS David Seaman can bring off a miraculous save
from Andreas Moller.
When Moller comes up, I don't feel good about it.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
And the Germans go into the final!
And England are out!
I could only feel for Southgate,
because you just feel like you've let everyone down.
You don't even think about yourself, you just think...
And I just really wanted to give him a big cuddle.
I can kind of recall him saying that...
You know,
"Look, this is football... It's not down to you."
And of course,
that isn't really registering at the time.
But he had never changed, you know?
You didn't see any anger, disgust, disappointment...
He'd been through so much in his life
that I think he had that context...
But it wasn't to be.
It wasn't to be.
It wasn't gonna be.
Everything ends with ONE kick of the ball.
Until that final penalty from Germany goes in,
England can still win it, Venables is still manager.
And a fraction of a second between the ball crossing the line
ends everything...it's gone.
This team has taken this crowd with them,
they've won them over.
And I tell you something,
they've put English football right back on the map, this team.
Normally, it was sort of dragged to an end.
This one was just guillotined in ONE action...
Police in riot gear made several attempts
to disperse the rioters from the fountains,
yet many seemed intent on breaking through the police line,
trying to head for the West End.
Nearby,
two Ministry of Defence police officers had to run from their patrol car.
Police described the violence as a sad event
which has marred a successful tournament,
but blamed the disturbances on a relatively small mob who are not genuine fans.
We went back to the hotel,
it was a real sombre place, as you could expect.
People had a few drinks,
I gave myself the luxury to have a drink
and sat with Gareth and a few of the boys, you know...
And there was a real great togetherness amongst the group,
amongst everybody there.
But we knew how close we were,
and that was the frustration.
I had to get up early the next morning,
to do whatever,
an interview at the end of the drive...
And the hotel did look slightly as if it had been ransacked!
And now players are coming down and leaving...
And that was very sad.
And now I've got the responsibility of taking Terry Venables to the LAST press conference.
And when we got there...
..his, uh, performance was fantastic.
We've shown that we've no need to be frightened of anybody in the world anymore.
We've played Holland, Spain and Germany,
three of the four favourites,
and we can be very proud with the way we've dealt with that.
Uh, I wouldn't have changed anything except the result.
There were a few tears...
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Quite emotional about it, still.
Um...
Because that finally WAS the end of that era.
But boy, it had been a fantastic ride.
♪ There must be lights
Sorry, is it too early?
♪ There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
♪ Got to be birds flying higher
♪ In a sky more blue
♪ If I can dream of a better land
♪ Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
♪ Tell me why
♪ Why...
♪ Oh, why
♪ Why...
♪ Oh, why can't my dream come true?
♪ Oh, why...
Terry's story is a bit of a Greek tragedy.
It is hubris
and then it's Terry meeting his nemesis.
Nemesis in the form of Alan Sugar.
I just remember sitting with Terry,
and him saying that this journey of life, it's not a rehearsal.
I just thought it was a brilliant moment
that captured everything about him.
♪ Why won't that sun appear?
When he was working,
he was gonna do everything he could to win.
But also, he was gonna enjoy his life.
There's been some things I've been able to do
that will go with me to the end of my life,
and I suppose,
in those moments where I've had those choices,
I've thought about Terry's words quite a lot.
Just his smile...you know?
That... That smile, you know!
And it was just... I'll never forget it!
I feel very pleased and privileged, in a way,
that I was able to call him my friend.
Saying goodbye to Terry at the end was very emotional, I think,
for a lot of players.
He embedded the foundations for us to be a very good footballing nation.
We were back on song, we were feared again.
It was never quite the same after Terry went...
♪ While I can think...
♪ While I can talk
♪ While I can stand...
I think the way Terry would like to remembered
is for grandfathers or fathers to see a picture of him
and for them to point to it and say,
"See that man there?
He was the greatest England manager we've ever had."
♪ While I can stand and walk...
♪ If I can dream...
♪ Right now
♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
♪ That's life
♪ That's life...
♪ That's what all the people say
♪ You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May
♪ But I know I'm gonna change that tune
♪ When I'm back on top, back on top in June
♪ I said that's life...
♪ That's life...
♪ And as funny as it may seem
♪ Some people get their kicks stompin' on a dream
♪ But I don't let it, let it get me down
♪ Cos this fine old world, it's keeps spinnin' around
♪ I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet
♪ A pawn and a king
♪ I've been up and down and over and out
♪ And I know one thing...
♪ Each time I find myself flat on my face
♪ I pick myself up and get back in the race
♪ That's life
♪ That's life...
♪ I tell you, I can't deny it
♪ I thought of quittin', baby... ♪
(MUSIC FADES)
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