Editing Terry Venables (section)

===Chelsea===
Venables left school in the summer of 1958 and signed for Chelsea as an apprentice at the age of 15.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=99}}</ref> He later said that he joined Chelsea as he felt he had a better chance of breaking into the first team at [[Stamford Bridge (stadium)|Stamford Bridge]], and also because the club offered his father a job as a part-time scout, and he denied West Ham's youth coach [[Malcolm Allison]]'s claim that he had only joined Chelsea for financial reasons.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=103}}</ref> He delayed becoming a professional player so he could try for a place on the [[Great Britain men's Olympic football team|Great Britain]] squad for the [[Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Summer Olympics]], and turned professional after learning that he would not be selected for the squad.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=105}}</ref> He won the [[FA Youth Cup]] with Chelsea in consecutive seasons, as they beat [[Preston North End F.C.|Preston North End]] in 1960 and [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] in 1961. He made his much anticipated senior debut in a 4–2 defeat to West Ham United on 6 February 1960, with newspapers billing him as "the new [[Duncan Edwards]]".<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=109}}</ref>

[[Tommy Docherty]] joined Chelsea as player-coach in September 1961, and went on to replace [[Ted Drake]] as manager the following month. Docherty proved to be a successful manager at the club, promoting younger players who became known as "Docherty's Diamonds", and was a highly influential coach in Venables' career,<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=112}}</ref> but the pair had a difficult relationship, and Venables believed Docherty to be tactically limited.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=118}}</ref> Chelsea were relegated at the end of the 1961–62 season, but managed to gain promotion out of the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] at the first attempt with a second-place finish in 1962–63.<ref name="page 119">{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=119}}</ref> They went on to finish fifth in the First Division in the 1963–64 season. He took his FA coaching badges at the age of 24, passing with distinction and a 95% pass mark.<ref>{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=122}}</ref>

Venables went on to lift the [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] with Chelsea, and scored a penalty against [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] in the two-legged [[1965 Football League Cup Final|final]].<ref name="page 126">{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=126}}</ref> Chelsea also reached the semi-finals of the [[FA Cup]] in [[1964–65 Chelsea F.C. season|1964–65]], where they were knocked out by [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]].<ref name="page 126"/> With three games left to play they were also in with an outside chance of overtaking Manchester United and [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] to win the league title, but Chelsea lost the first of these games 2–0 to Liverpool at [[Anfield]].<ref name="page 127">{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=127}}</ref> Docherty reversed his decision to allow the players a night out after the game, but Venables and seven other players ([[George Graham]], [[Barry Bridges]], [[John Hollins]], [[Marvin Hinton]], [[Eddie McCreadie]], [[Joe Fascione]] and [[Bert Murray]]) broke [[curfew]] and went for a brief night out.<ref name="page 127"/> Upon their return to the team hotel Docherty suspended all eight players for the remainder of the season.<ref name="page 127"/> Chelsea then lost 6–2 to [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]], before Docherty reinstated the players for a final-day defeat to [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]].<ref name="page 128">{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=128}}</ref> Venables never forgave Docherty for the punishment, describing it as "crass, stupid and self-defeating".<ref name="page 128"/> Docherty placed Venables on the transfer list towards the end of the [[1965–66 Chelsea F.C. season|1965–66]] season, with Chelsea again losing an FA Cup semi-final and heading towards a fifth-place finish.<ref name="page 134">{{harvnb|Venables|2014|p=134}}</ref>