Terence McDermott was born on the 8th of December 1951 in Kirkby, Merseyside and was another who attended St Kevins RC Comprehensive School. Here he played in the school team and also for the excellent Kirkby Boys team, alongside Phil Thompson, which reached the quarter-finals of English Schools Trophy. However, when he left school he, like Dennis Mortimer, was the only player in the Kirby Boys team not signed up to a professional club. He had to go to work. Terry says, "At the end of school, in June, I hadn’t been offered an apprenticeship. My mam said to me, 'You need to get a job.' I had about six jobs in three weeks. I worked in a wood factory, lifting wood, big long strips of wood, about twenty foot long, and moved them from here to there." He went to watch Liverpool play Burnley in a night game and while there a scout from Bury turned up at his house. "When I came back, me mam said, 'There's been a scout from Bury here for you. ' I said, 'Bury, where's that?' She said, 'I don’t know, I think it's Manchester way.' I said, 'What did they say?' She said, 'They've left you forms.' Straight away I said, 'I'll sign, no one else wants me.' I filled in the forms and I sent them back."
He joined Bury in 1969 and made a total of 90 appearances, scoring eight goals before making the jump from the Fourth to the First Division when Newcastle United paid £22,000 for him in February 1973. Despite the step up in class, manager Joe Harvey soon gave the 21-year-old his chance in the first team and he settled in quickly, helped by being sent to live with the family of young Magpies left-back Alan Kennedy who would later become an Anfield team-mate, and by the end of his first and, as it would turn out, his only full season at St James Park, the Geordies had won through to the FA Cup final where their opponents would be Liverpool. During the following summer newspaper reports began to link him with a move to Liverpool and he then received a letter from Phil Thompson saying he understood that he was not happy and that Bob Paisley had been talking about him. He explained that Bob felt he had all the attributes to be a Liverpool player, to which Terry relied, "it would be my dream'. In November 1974 he duly made his Liverpool debut on the 16th of November against Everton at Goodison Park but for the next two years, struggled to get into the team. However he was a fixture in the 1977 side that retained the title and his goal against Everton in the semi-final of the FA Cup, a turn and chip from the edge of the penalty area, was voted the 'Goal of the Season' by the BBC. Finishing on the losing side in an FA Cup final was soon forgotten as a typical run into space saw him fire the Reds ahead in the European Cup final against Borussia Mönchengladbach and he would add two more winners' medals to his collection in the world's most prestigious knock-out competition. He also became a regular member of the England squad and was capped 25 times from 1977-1982. Scoring eight goals for two seasons running, he reached double figures in 1979/80 and followed that with a goal-spree of 20 and 22 goals in the next couple of seasons which was outstanding for a midfielder. He credits a stunning hat-trick in only 16 minutes when Kevin Keegan returned with Hamburg for the second leg of the Super Cup on the 6th of December 1977 as the making of him at Liverpool. It wasn't like his goals were tap-ins either. Another awesome strike dumped Spurs out of the FA Cup in 1980 when he took the ball over his shoulder on the right-hand corner of the penalty box and hit a volley that curved into the far top corner for the only goal of the game. His runs from deep were very well timed and would often provide the finishing touch to a well-rehearsed attack. Terry was voted the PFA Players' Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year that season, becoming the first player to win both awards in the same season. A further League title and League Cup followed in 1982 but his place in the side was becoming less assured.
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| Terry and Jimmy Case celebrate Liverpool's maiden European Cup victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach in Rome, 25th May 1977 |
By the start of the 1982/83 season however, it was clear that he would finally have to look elsewhere for first-team football and he returned to St. James' Park in September 1982. Newcastle got promoted to the First Division in the 1983/84 season and after one more season in the top-flight he joined Cork City in 1985 and spent two years playing in Cyprus. He signed for Newcastle for the third time when he was appointed Kevin Keegan's assistant manager in 1992, staying on as Kenny Dalglish's number two when Keegan left until he was sacked in September 1998 and Ruud Gullit took over. Terry then joined the coaching staff at Celtic in 1999, appointed by the ill-fated management-team of John Barnes and Kenny Dalglish, but returned for his fourth spell at Newcastle in January 2005 as assistant to Graeme Souness. After Souness' sacking, he continued to serve under managers Glenn Roeder, Sam Allardyce and then eventually Keegan again, but once Keegan departed in September 2008 Terry followed suit. A couple of months later he became Lee Clark's assistant manager at Huddersfield Town but was controversially dismissed along with Clark in February 2012 with the club in fourth place in League One. When Clark was appointed manager of Birmingham City in June 2012 Terry soon followed as his assistant. In summary, Terry McDermott was the complete midfield player, with an unstoppable engine aligned to goalscoring instincts allowing him to excel for Liverpool during a period of unprecedented success at Anfield, winning 5 League titles, 3 European cups, 1 Uefa cup, 2 League cups and 1 Uefa Super cup. He appeared 329 times for Liverpool scoring 81 goals.
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