RIP Terry Venables

Getting England to play the old Christmas Tree formation was his big idea if I remember right. He was a great player and a good manager. Another wheeler dealer type old school fella. RIP El Tel
 
Sad news , I always liked his personality and he was a very good manager.
Not sure I would describe him as a brilliant or great England manager. He never had to qualify for a tournament and we didn't get to the final in the home one he managed us. I get the sentiment though because it was a positive time. Just a shame that he fell out with the FA and we didn't see more of him.
He did so many varied things in and out of football and Lala sums it up nicely...he was a loveable rogue.
RIP El Tel.
 
I thought I had posted this news last night. I was informed last night he had died. Its a huge lost in football. He was a lovely person.
 
RIP El Tel, we will never how good an England Manager he would have become if he stayed on after Euro 96, unfortunately too many other distractions at the time.
 
I remember the camera panning onto him as the crucial penalty was scored at Euro 96 semi final. He was gritting his teeth and looking like he knew a golden and glorious moment had passed him by.
 
A lot of the football world greats seem to be passing at the minute. Great manager who's sides played good football. If only he was in charge of the current crop or the golden generation it might have been so different.
 
The summer of 96 was an epic one in lots of ways.

And El Tel played his part by utilising a number of talented players and turning them into a really watchable team.

I went to England v Spain at Wembley in the quarters and it was a day on which all the negative shite surrounding England (which had put me off as a son of Irish parents) seemed to have drifted away.

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RIP El Tel. The most charismatic England manager
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Whilst still playing he learned Spanish as it was always his ambition to coach in Spain; not many of his generation had that ambition or foresight. Or maybe he thought he could be useful to his exiled acquaintances on the costa del crime 😉.

RIP one of football's great characters.
 
RIP ‘El Tel’ Good player and England manager. His most successful stint as a manager though was at Barça
where he won La Liga and Copa del Rey, was living in Mallorca at the time, and along with Lineker became Catalan heroes.
 
RIP
Sir Jimmy was the man given the role of finding the right person for the job after Graham Taylor. The suits at the FA did not want Venables as manager, but Sir Jimmy shoved it up them telling them he was the right man for the job...
Often takes good to recognise good.

I still reckon he was possible Bradley Walsh's dad (El Tel not Sir Jimmy)
 
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Driving back from Portsmouth earlier my wife said Terry wogan had died...i thought to myself i thought he had already died...it wasnt till we got back & read terry venables had died she got the wrong bloke!! Rip el tel
 
I’d say RIP ‘El Tel’ but I imagine he’s already having a party up there with the England greats who have passed over. Such a character.

I’d still take him over the current England manager…
 
Pioneer of the plastic pitch,although I won't hold that against him!,always struck me as a Arthur Daley wheeler,dealer finger in every pie type geezer.
A real shame he wasn't given a proper run as England manager to show what he could really do.
RIP El Tel
 
There was a thread about him several months ago.

IMHO he was the best England manager that I've been fully aware of, probably starting around or after Revie. Only because he gave skillful players their head and let the team express itself. Making England exciting and entertaining. Other managers have been in post longer and achieved more.

We'll never know if Venables could have done the same, but he deserved the chance to find out.
 
In my view he was a better England manager than any we have had since because he sent out his players full of confidence to believe in themselves ,to express themselves and play positively in all games including the biggest ones unlike the present incumbent who gets more and more fearful and defensive the bigger the game just the opposite of El Tel.

An excellent choice by our Jimmy who knew a thing or two.

I seem to recall he wasn`t sacked but couldn`t come to terms with the FA and their offer to him. I remember being very disappointed at the time and subsequent events have well illustrated why.
 
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