Terry Butcher

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655 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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The Rest Is Football · Terry Butcher: Invisible Wounds · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

Were you?

Well, I've tried to kick you because you always ran away from me and scored goals.

I ran away from you with fear.

Well, I don't know what it was, but you were too quick for me.

So I had to like try and knock you down.

But yeah, I was just a gentle giant on the pitch.

What changed you in that?

Well, the coaches changed me, Bobby Ferguson in particular.

He was the number two to Bobby Robson.

Yeah, he called me all names under the sun.

It was a make or break situation.

I was in two minds to give it up, so I spoke to my parents and my mum said, look, give it up and go to Trent Polytechnic, where they were holding a place for me as a quantity surveyor, but I have no clue what a quantity surveyor does.

And my dad says, no.

My dad says, carry on.

He says, you carry on and show them.

Quantity surveyors.

I'm not going to go to quantity surveyors.

I don't have a clue what they do, but it was outside apparently, and I thought, well, I'll take an outside job.

I think I did, yes.

And he was like, wow, that's the same.

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