Terry Paine

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playername = Terry Paine


fullname = Terence Lionel Paine
nickname = Painer
height = height|ft=5|in=7
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|1939|3|23|df=y
cityofbirth = Winchester, Hampshire
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = Retired
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position = Forward
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youthclubs = Winchester City
years = 1956–1974 1974–1977
clubs = Southampton Hereford United
caps(goals) = 713 (160) 111 00(8)
nationalyears = 1963-1966
nationalteam = England
nationalcaps(goals) = 019 00(7)
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Terence Lionel Paine MBE (born 23 March 1939 in Winchester) was an English footballer.

Paine made 713 football league appearances for Southampton F.C. (still a club record) and 111 for Hereford United F.C. as a winger and midfield player.

He won 19 international caps for England, and was part of the squad that won the 1966 World Cup.

Playing career

Winchester City

Terry Paine worked as a coachbuilder at Eastleigh’s British Railways depot, and played his early football for his local club, Winchester City and featured in their Amateur Cup run in 1956-57. He had trials at both Portsmouth and Arsenal (for whom he scored twice in a trial match) but Winchester’s manager was former Saints player Harry Osman who alerted Ted Bates to Paine’s potential and in August 1956, the Football Echo reported “Terry Paine, a Winchester City forward, in whom Arsenal were interested has been added to the playing staff list.”

outhampton

Paine signed amateur forms with Southampton in August 1956 and then in February 1957, Saints signed Paine as a full-timer when he appeared in a reserve game against Bristol Rovers. The following month he made his League debut at home to Brentford, just a week before his 18th birthday. Paine did not score in the 3-3 draw but the crowd were impressed by his ball-juggling skills, pace and ability to use either foot. Terry’s rise to stardom was meteoric and, following just one outing in the Reserves, he was given his first team debut. A week later, on his birthday, he scored in a 1-1 draw against at Aldershot. By the end of his first season he had become a virtual regular, switching from left wing to right wing and over the next 17 years hardly missed a game.

Oozing confidence, the young winger often ruffled a few feathers among his more senior colleagues but, to a man, they all recall being impressed by his undoubted ability, if not enchanted by his brashness. With maturity, Terry gained not only respect from his peers but international recognition when he played and scored in an England Under-23 match against Holland in March 1960.

Possessing superb ball-crossing skills, Terry could “land a ball on a sixpence” and Derek Reeves and George O’Brien were the first of many forwards to capitalise on the expertise of the canny winger, when Saints marched to the 1960 Division 3 championship.

Paine was the regular replacement when a goalkeeper became injured (this was before substitutes were allowed). In the first match of the 1961-1962 season, at home to Plymouth Argyle on 19 August, Ron Reynolds broke his ankle. Paine replaced him in goal but let in 2 goals so he in turn was replaced by Cliff Huxford; unfortunately Paine was unable to create the equalising goal and Saints lost 2-1.

As Saints’ fortunes prospered so did Terry’s and, after being made team captain in August 1961, he won the first of 19 full England caps in May 1963.

Over the next few seasons Terry, with help from fellow-winger John Sydenham, provided the pinpoint crosses on which forwards such as Ron Davies and Martin Chivers were to thrive. Gradually, with the almost total demise of wingers, Terry took his passing proficiencies into midfield and his dextrous distribution was partially instrumental in the launching of Mick Channon’s spectacular rise to prominence. Steering clear of serious injury in a remarkable way, Terry was often guilty of committing petty fouls and any games missed were usually the result of suspensions arising from such indiscretions.

In his Southampton career he made 709 (+ 4 as sub) league appearances, scoring 160 goals, plus a further 102 cup and other appearances, with another 27 goals. This places him 3rd on the club's list of all-time goalscorers. He an "ever-present" for a record number of 7 seasons.

An era ended when Bates retired from management in 1973 and Paine moved to Hereford in the summer of 1974 to make a further 106 appearances thus establishing an all-time league record of 819 appearances. Tony Ford and goalkeeper Peter Shilton have since passed that figure, but the achievement contributed to Terry being awarded the MBE for his services to football and when he hung up his boots, he moved into management with non-league Cheltenham Town.

Apart from Matthew Le Tissier, no player has served Southampton FC with such dedication and loyalty and Terry deserves to be remembered with the utmost awe and gratitude by those fortunate to have seen him play. He has been honoured by having one of the luxurious hospitality suites at the St Mary's Stadium named after him.

Off the pitch, Terry had cultivated various business interests while at The Dell and had been a Conservative Councillor for Bargate on Southampton Borough Councillor for three years.

England

Paine was recognised at England Under-23 level and scored in an England Under-23 match against Holland in March 1960. In 1963 he won his first full cap and later that year he scored a hat trick at Wembley against Northern Ireland to become the first outside-right to score 3 goals for England since Stanley Matthews in 1937. Furthermore, no forward wearing the no. 7 shirt had ever scored a hat-trick at Wembley.

Paine featured in England manager Alf Ramsey’s plans and he was one of the 22-man squad for the 1966 World Cup. He played in only one match, against Mexico, and was injured in his 19th and, as it turned out, his last international. Ramsey, of course, had now found little use for “old-fashioned” wingers.

Saints were now preparing to face the challenge of First Division football and it was ironic that all Paine’s England caps were to be won while he was a Second Division player.

Hereford United

In July 1974, Terry became player-coach at Hereford where, alongside manager John Sillett, and serving prolific scorer Dixie McNeil, he helped United romp away with the Division Three championship.

Later career

Upon retirement, Paine decided to remain in football concentrating on coaching, including a spell as manager of non-league Cheltenham Town, combining his role at Cheltenham with running a pub in Cheltenham town centre called the Prince of Wales on Portland Street. Much of the 1980s were spent in Johannesburg where he went on to coach Wits University Football Club, but in 1988 he returned to England to work at Coventry with John Sillett, previously his manager at Hereford.

Paine currently works as a football presenter on digital satellite TV sports channel Supersport in South Africa. He often appears alongside former Manchester United goalkeeper Gary Bailey, and normally presents English Premiership and UEFA Champions League matches.

During the run up to South Africa's successful 2010 World Cup bid, Paine was a "Bid Ambassador" and was part of the delegation in Zurich when South Africa's victory in the bidding was announced.

Truly an inspirational figure not least for his achievements off the pitch as much as on it.

Honours

*World Cup: 1966

References

*cite book
author=Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk
title=The Alphabet of the Saints
publisher= ACL & Polar Publishing
year=1992
id=ISBN 0-9514862-3-3
*cite book
author=Jeremy Wilson
title=Southampton’s Cult Heroes
publisher=Know The Score Books
year=2006
id=ISBN 1-905449-01-1

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