Terry Fenwick

Terry Fenwick
Personnel
Surname	Terence William Fenwick
birthday	17th November 1959
place of birth	Seaham , County Durham ,  England
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1976-1980	Crystal Palace	70 0(0)
1980-1987	Queens Park Rangers	256 (33)
1987-1993	Tottenham Hotspur	93 0(8)
1990-1991	→  Leicester City  (loan)	8 0(1)
1993-1995	Swindon Town	28 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984-1988	England	20 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1995-1998	Portsmouth FC
2003	Northampton Town
	San Juan Jabloteh
1 Only league games are given.

Terence William "Terry" Fenwick (born November 17, 1959 in Seaham , County Durham ) is a retired English football player . Between 1984 and 1988 he completed a total of 20 international matches for the English national football team . After finishing his career as a footballer, Fenwick became a coach .

Career as a football player

The fast-paced central defender began his professional career in 1977 with the second division club Crystal Palace , with whom Fenwick succeeded in promotion to the first division in his second season .

After a first season in the English premier league, he moved back to the Queens Park Rangers in Second Division in December 1980 for a transfer fee of 110,000 pounds . With the Rangers, Fenwick rose in 1983 as a second division champion. In the following season, the club was able to occupy a surprising fifth final place as a climber straight away and Fenwick was called up by Bobby Robson in the English national team, where he made his debut on May 2, 1984 in the 0-1 defeat against Wales in Wrexham .

Fenwick continued to play for England on a South American tour that the association had scheduled because the team had not qualified for the 1984 European Championship in France . When the qualifying games for the 1986 World Cup started in Mexico , Fenwick was replaced by the returning Terry Butcher and was only used again in the summer of 1985 against Finland . After many changes in the defensive positions, Robson then decided next to the set Butcher for the nomination of Fenwicks for the World Cup, which was heavily criticized in the English public, as the position next to Butcher was viewed as a weak point of the team. During the tournament, Fenwick received a total of three yellow cards , setting a negative record for an English player at a World Cup. In one of the most spectacular scenes during the World Cup goal of the century by Diego Maradona , he was one of the played by the Argentine opponents.

After the World Cup, Fenwick moved to Tottenham Hotspur at the end of 1987 . Although he was always a regular player there until 1989, he was only used sporadically in the national team, even after Butcher suffered a broken leg. With the arrival of Des Walker in the English selection, the generation change was then fully implemented and Fenwick's national team career ended.

In 1990 Fenwick was loaned to the second division Leicester City and returned to the Spurs after a season. Since he had already exceeded his performance zenit, he was no longer used there in the following two years and joined the relegation candidate in the Premier League , Swindon Town . The 1993/94 season, when Swindon was able to bring in only five wins in 42 games, was then Fenwick's last season as an active footballer.

Coaching career

Fenwick took over in 1995 at the second division club Portsmouth FC for the first time as a coach. After three years, in which he could only just keep the class twice, he changed briefly to the coaching staff of Crystal Palace and assisted Terry Venables there . His last major engagement in English professional football was in 2003 as a brief head coach at Northampton Town before he moved to Trinidad and Tobago , where he began to work successfully at San Juan Jabloteh and also won the club's first championship.

literature

• Macey, Gordon: Queen's Park Rangers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-714-6 , pp. 216 .

Web links

• Interview with Terry Fenwick