Editing Terry Venables (section)

===Tottenham Hotspur===
On 23 November 1987, he returned to England to manage Tottenham Hotspur. His success with the Spurs team was varied, with the side finishing in mid-table for most of his tenure, though they did win the [[FA Cup]] in 1991 and finished third in the league in 1990.<ref name="Team Coach"/> Venables had brought both [[Gary Lineker]] and [[Paul Gascoigne]] to Spurs and was a favourite to replace [[Bobby Robson]] as England national football team manager when the job became vacant in 1990, but doubts about his probity led him to be passed over in favour of [[Graham Taylor]].<ref>{{cite web|title=England Managers – Graham Taylor|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/teammgr/Mgr_TaylorG.html|website=www.englandfootballonline.com|access-date=23 August 2016|archive-date=26 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226202838/http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamMgr/Mgr_TaylorG.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

After a failed £20m bid to take over Spurs with Larry Gillick, Venables was appointed chief executive by [[Alan Sugar]], who had won the takeover battle against [[Robert Maxwell]] in June 1991.<ref name="g-factfile"/> Over the next two seasons, the Spurs team was managed by [[Peter Shreeves]] and then the joint management team of [[Ray Clemence]] and [[Doug Livermore]], with the final arrangement seeing Venables having more involvement with the first team. A clash of personalities developed and Sugar dismissed Venables on 14 May 1993, over his business dealings. After gaining a temporary injunction, he was reinstated, but lost a three-day high court hearing and ordered to pay costs.<ref name="g-factfile"/>