Terence McDermott (born 8 December 1951) is an English former
football midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
who was a member of the
Liverpool
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team of the 1970s and early 1980s, in which he won three
European Cups and five
First Division titles. He was capped 25 times for
England
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, and has had an extensive coaching career with
Newcastle United (twice),
Huddersfield Town and more recently, as assistant manager of
Birmingham City
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.
Playing career
Early career
McDermott joined
Bury as a youngster in 1969. He made a total of 90 appearances and eight goals before joining
Newcastle United in 1973.
Manager
Joe Harvey gave McDermott his Newcastle debut on 17 March 1973, at
Old Trafford against
Manchester United. He came off the bench but could not do anything to prevent Newcastle losing 2–1.
McDermott reached the
FA Cup Final in
1974
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against
Liverpool
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. However, Newcastle lost the match 3–0.
Liverpool
Liverpool boss
Bob Paisley, in his first season in charge after replacing
Bill Shankly
William Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981) was a Scottish football player and manager, who is best known for his time as manager of Liverpool. Shankly brought success to Liverpool, gaining promotion to the First Division and winnin ...
, brought McDermott to Merseyside in November 1974. McDermott made his Liverpool debut on 16 November, as did
Phil Neal, in a
Merseyside derby against
Everton at
Goodison Park
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. Neither side could break the deadlock with both sides sharing the points. McDermott's first goal came in a 1–1 league draw with
Burnley
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at
Turf Moor on 8 March 1975.
For the next two years, McDermott struggled to get into the team or hold down a place once given his chance. Liverpool won the
League championship and the
UEFA Cup in the
1975–76 season but McDermott did not play in enough matches to pick up a League medal, although he was in the squad which won in Europe. Speculation mounted that he would move on in the summer of 1976, but instead he stayed at
Anfield
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and became an integral part of the
following season's triumphs.
McDermott was a fixture in the 1977 side that retained the title. Meanwhile, his goal against Everton in the semi-final of the
FA Cup
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, a turn and chip from the edge of the penalty area, was voted the '
Goal of the Season
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' by the
BBC. That game finished 2–2, with Liverpool winning the replay. A subsequent success in a
European Cup semi-final meant that Liverpool had reached the finals of both the FA Cup and European Cup, which were scheduled to be played respectively at
Wembley and at Rome's
Stadio Olimpico within four days of each other in May 1977. However, Liverpool were defeated in the
FA Cup Final by Manchester United, which ended their "treble" dream. There was joy for McDermott four days later, though, when he opened the scoring in the
European Cup Final against
Borussia Mönchengladbach as Liverpool won 3–1.
On 6 December 1977, he scored a
hat-trick
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in the second leg of Liverpool's victory over Hamburg in the
UEFA Super Cup Final.
Liverpool reached their first
League Cup final in
1978 and this occasion was to prove memorable for McDermott for the wrong reasons. The first game at Wembley against
Nottingham Forest ended goalless, but McDermott had a goal disallowed after the officials decided that
Kenny Dalglish was in an
offside position when McDermott struck his shot. In the replay at
Old Trafford, after Forest had opened the scoring with a hotly disputed penalty, McDermott scored what he thought was the equaliser with a well-struck drive, only for the officials to deny him again, claiming he had controlled the pass with his arm. Forest held on to win 1–0 and McDermott offered to swear on oath in an after-match interview that he had trapped the ball legally with his chest.
Consolation at missing out on the League Cup was found at the end of the
season
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when McDermott featured in the Liverpool team which retained the
European Cup thanks to a 1–0 win over
Club Brugge
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The
following season, McDermott scored one of Liverpool's most memorable goals. It came at Anfield in a League match against
Tottenham Hotspur
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on 2 September 1978. Liverpool were defending a corner which was cleared from their own penalty area to striker
David Johnson, who hit a long pass to the sprinting winger
Steve Heighway on the left flank as McDermott started to chase forward. Within just a few seconds, the ball was in the Spurs net as Heighway raced down the line and crossed the ball, without stopping to control it, for McDermott to head home after a 70-yard run. This was the final goal in a 7–0 win.
By the end of that season, McDermott and Liverpool were champions again and they retained the title in
1980
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* January 9 – In ...
, with McDermott being voted the
PFA Players' Player of the Year and the
FWA Footballer of the Year - the first player to win both awards in the same season. He scored another memorable goal against Tottenham that season, this time in the FA Cup at
White Hart Lane
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, when he took a misplaced pass from
Osvaldo Ardiles on the right hand corner of the penalty area, flicked the ball into the air and hit a lob-volley into the far corner of the goal.
In
1981, McDermott featured as Liverpool beat
West Ham United after a replay to win the League Cup for the first time. Later that season, he appeared in the team that defeated
Real Madrid in the
European Cup Final.
A further League title and League Cup followed in
1982
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but his place in the side was becoming less assured.
Later career
McDermott returned to Newcastle United in September 1982. At Newcastle, he featured alongside his former Liverpool teammate
Kevin Keegan and youngsters
Chris Waddle
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Nicknamed "Magic Chris", football journalist Luke Ginnell wrote that Waddle was "widely ackn ...
and
Peter Beardsley as Newcastle won promotion back to the top flight of
English football in 1984.
McDermott left Newcastle in January 1985 and moved abroad to play with
Cork City in Ireland.
From 1985 to 1987, McDermott played for the Cypriot team
APOEL
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alongside
Ian Moores
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Playing career
Moores was born in Chesterton, Staffo ...
, where he won the
Cypriot Championship
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and the
Cypriot Super Cup.
International career
On 7 September 1977,
Ron Greenwood
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gave McDermott his debut for
England
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in a 0–0 friendly draw with
Switzerland
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at
Wembley. He opened his goalscoring account on 10 September 1980 during a
World Cup qualifier at Wembley against
Norway
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. McDermott scored twice, including a penalty, as England won 4–0.
McDermott was selected for the England squad which travelled to the
1980 European Championships in Italy. He played in two of the group games.
McDermott was also picked for the England squad for the
1982 World Cup in Spain but did not play, despite having featured in every qualifying game. He never played for England again and only featured as a substitute in one match for Liverpool the following season.
In his England career, he had been capped 25 times at senior level, and scored three goals.
Coaching career
When
Kevin Keegan became manager of Newcastle on 5 February 1992, he recruited McDermott as his first team coach. Together the two masterminded a return to the top of the English game for Newcastle which included a close run to the
League
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title in
1996 which was won by Manchester United. After Keegan resigned, McDermott stayed at Newcastle for a further season under
Kenny Dalglish but left Newcastle when Dalglish resigned and replacement
Ruud Gullit decided to bring in his own coach.
When
John Barnes was appointed as head coach of
Celtic
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**Celts (modern)
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on 8 June 1999, he appointed McDermott as assistant head coach alongside
Eric Black, before they were all sacked following the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,[Inverness Caledonian Thistle
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in February 2000.
In 2005, McDermott returned to Newcastle after he was recruited by manager
Graeme Souness to work as a coach. After the sacking of Souness in February 2006, McDermott stayed on under managers
Glenn Roeder,
Sam Allardyce and Keegan once again.
When Keegan quit in September 2008, McDermott also left along with
Adam Sadler.
On 19 December 2008, McDermott was named assistant manager of
League One side
Huddersfield Town, effectively becoming
Lee Clark's right-hand man. Following the sacking of Clark in February 2012, McDermott was also sacked. In June 2012 he joined
Birmingham City
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as Clark's assistant. On 17 February 2014, it was widely reported that he and first-team coach
Derek Fazackerley
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had left Birmingham; the club stated they had "no comment to issue on the matter at this moment in time".
Personal life
McDermott's sons
Neale and
Greg also played football, formerly on the books of
Gateshead F.C. He also has a daughter Rachel.
.
On 22 August 2021, he announced that he had been diagnosed with
dementia
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.
Career statistics
Club
Managerial statistics
Honours
Newcastle United
*
Texaco Cup
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I ...
:
1973–74
*
Anglo-Italian Cup:
1973
Liverpool
*
Football League First Division
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:
1975–76,
1976–77,
1978–79,
1979–80,
1981–82
*
Football League Cup:
1980–81,
1981–82
*
FA Charity Shield:
1976,
1977 (shared),
1979,
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
*
European Cup:
1976–77,
1977–78,
1980–81
*
UEFA Cup:
1975–76
*
UEFA Super Cup
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:
1977
APOEL Nicosia
*
Cypriot First Division:
1985–86
*
Cypriot Super Cup:
1986
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Events January
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Individual
*
First Division Goal of the Season: 1976–77
*
PFA First Division Team of the Year: 1979–80
*
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 1979–80
*
FWA Footballer of the Year: 1979–80
*
European Cup Top Scorer: 1980–81
References
Bibliography
*
External links
*
*
Official Liverpool F.C. profileProfile at LFChistory.netNewcastle career and links to other career sections, at Sporting-heroes.net
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