Editing Terry Venables (section)

===Crystal Palace===
Venables worked as Malcolm Allison's coach for the 1975–76 season, when Palace reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup; however they lost the semi-final tie with [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] and their subsequent league form suffered as they slipped back to fifth-place.<ref name="page 172">{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=172}}</ref> Venables succeeded Allison as manager in June 1976.<ref name="g-factfile">{{cite news |url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,751390,00.html |title=Terry Venables factfile |date=8 July 2002 |access-date=2 July 2009 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |archive-date=23 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123131229/http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,751390,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It proved to be a busy month for Venables, as he turned down the surprise offer to walk out on Palace to succeed [[Bertie Mee]] as Arsenal manager and also had a para-sailing accident in [[Majorca]] which required 40 stitches.<ref name="page 184">{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=184}}</ref>

As Crystal Palace manager, Venables built a young team of mostly youth team players and free transfer signings which the media dubbed the "Team of the Eighties".<ref name="page 171"/> Star winger [[Peter Taylor (footballer, born 1953)|Peter Taylor]] was sold on to Spurs for £200,000, but most of this sum went on balancing the club's books.<ref name="page 184"/> Venables spent £1,500 to sign striker [[Rachid Harkouk]] from [[Feltham F.C. (1946)|Feltham]], coming up with half of this sum out of his own funds on the understanding that he would receive 50% of any future transfer fee for the player.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=185}}</ref> By March 1977, the board found enough money for Venables to purchase [[Jeff Bourne]] from [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] for £30,000, and Bourne ended the 1976–77 campaign with nine goals in 15 games to help Palace to secure the third and final automatic promotion place.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=188}}</ref>

His team adjusted well to the Second Division and finished in ninth-place in 1977–78, before going on to win promotion as champions in 1978–79. They secured the title with a final day victory over Burnley in a rearranged fixture some days after all their promotion rivals had completed their fixtures; the win meant that they leapfrogged [[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.|Brighton & Hove Albion]], [[Stoke City F.C.|Stoke City]] and [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]], and they denied their [[M23 derby]] rivals from the south coast what would have been their club's highest honour.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=193}}</ref>

His first season as a manager in the First Division, in the 1979–80 season, started successfully, and on 29 September, Crystal Palace were top of the [[English Football League]] for one week.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=194}}</ref> They ended back down in 13th-place, which was at that time [[History of Crystal Palace F.C.|the club's highest ever league finish]].

The following season started badly for Venables; expensive high-profile signings failed to gel, and by October 1980, Palace were bottom of the First Division, attendance was plummeting and the club was in financial difficulties. Venables left during October to join Second Division [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]]; although the exact reasons behind his sudden departure have never been made clear.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Richard |date=26 November 2023 |title=Terry Venables obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/26/terry-venables-obituary |access-date=26 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=26 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126163833/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/26/terry-venables-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 January 2021 |title=Remembering Noades' impact on 40-year anniversary – News |url=https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/club/remembering-noades-impact-on-40-year-anniversary/ |access-date=26 November 2023 |website=Crystal Palace F.C. |language=en-GB |archive-date=26 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126170735/https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/club/remembering-noades-impact-on-40-year-anniversary/ |url-status=live }}</ref>