Terence William Fenwick (born 17 November 1959) is an English

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and former player who played either as a

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or a full-back. During his playing career, he made a total of 455 appearances in the

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for

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and

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. Fenwick made twenty appearances for the

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from 1984 to 1988, and represented the country at the

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. Fenwick began his managerial career in the mid-1990s with

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, from 1995 to 1998. He later had executive and managerial stints at

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, Ashford Town and

Northampton Town Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, England. The team plays in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1897, the club competed in the Midland ...

. Since the early 2000s, Fenwick has primarily managed in

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, where he has been in charge of

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(on three occasions),

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and the

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Club career

Crystal Palace

Fenwick began his youth career at

, where he was part of the team that won the

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in both 1977 and 1978, scoring the only goal in each final in two 1–0 wins over Everton and

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respectively. He signed professional terms with

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in December 1976, made his

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debut away to

in December 1977, and went on to make 10 appearances that season. In the 1978–79 season, Palace were promoted to the

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and Fenwick made a further 20 appearances, and 10 in the 1979–80 season. During those three seasons, Fenwick wore eight different numbered shirts for Palace at a time when shirt numbers equated more to playing position. Fenwick started the next season as first choice left-back after the departure of

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. After a poor start to the season, the club looked set for relegation and in December 1980, Fenwick rejoined former Palace

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. He had made 70 league appearances for Palace, but without scoring.

Queens Park Rangers

Fenwick signed for

in December 1980, for £110,000 and went on to make 256 appearances scoring 33 goals. Whilst at Queens Park Rangers, he became the first full-back to score a goal from open play in an

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when he equalized against

in the 1982 final.

Tottenham Hotspur

In December 1987, Fenwick was again signed by

for

, for a fee of £550,000 and went on to make 93 appearances for Spurs, scoring nine times mostly from the

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spot in just one season, 1988–89. In 1990–91, Fenwick had a loan spell at

(eight appearances, one goal), after which he returned to Spurs halfway through the season. A broken ankle ruled him out of their victory in the

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Swindon Town

In 1993, Fenwick signed for

, at that time a newly promoted

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team. His first season, saw Swindon winning only 5 games of a total 42, conceding 100 goals and being relegated. Fenwick played 28 games during this season, and was noted for involvement in an incident which resulted in a broken leg for

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. He played only two games the following season, was released, and ended his playing career shortly thereafter.

International career

Fenwick made his international debut for the full

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side in May 1984 as a substitute for

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, and went on to make 20 appearances for the national side up until 1988. He holds the English record for most yellow cards, three, in a single

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tournament, which he achieved in the

. During that World Cup, Fenwick was also noted for being passed by

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as Maradona scored the "

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Managerial career

After retiring as a player Fenwick moved into football management. In 1995, he replaced Jim Smith as manager for

. After a poor first full season in charge, where the club only avoided relegation on goal difference, an improved second season saw the club miss out on a play-off spot by one place, and they also eliminated then-Premier League

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from the

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. Fenwick left Portsmouth in January 1998 with the club bottom of the Division One table. Fenwick then followed Terry Venables to Crystal Palace, where he served as assistant manager. In a remarkable turn of events, Fenwick was canvassed by an Asian businessman and coerced to become the new public face of beleaguered non-league outfit

between 2000 to 2001. It led to fellow Queens Park Rangers teammate Mike Fillery being installed to take charge of first team affairs, before both were ousted amid the debacle surrounding the club's ownership. After managing

, where he won the

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in back-to-back seasons, Fenwick returned to England to take charge of

. However, he only lasted for seven games. His first game saw a 1–0 lead turn into a 2–1 defeat away to

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. The next five games saw just two draws and three more defeats. His last game in charge was against

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. The 2–1 defeat saw calls for his departure from fans and he left the post the following Monday. He was replaced by

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. That summer, Fenwick was lined up to become the new manager of

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, but he decided not to take the job due to uncertainty over the club's ownership – amid allegations of fraud surrounding the Hatters, and former Southall chairman John Gurney. In September 2004, Fenwick became director of football at

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side Ashford Town. The following month, Fenwick was appointed manager by owner Tim Thorogood. He resigned in January 2005, after a poor run of form, as well as failing to have a consistent line-up due to a turnover of players. Since his managerial days in England, Fenwick has spent a considerable amount of time in Trinidad and Tobago, where he has enjoyed a great degree of managerial success – winning the country's professional football league on four occasions (2002, 2003,

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and

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). After securing a place in the Caribbean Champions League for

, Fenwick signed for

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in the

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. However, in October 2014, the club was declared bankrupt. On 19 December 2019, Fenwick was appointed as the head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago national team on a two-year contract commencing on 1 January 2020. Due to the

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, he did not take charge of his first match until 31 January 2021, in a 7–0 loss to the

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, equalling the biggest defeat in Trinidad and Tobago's history. Despite being favoured to qualify out of their first round group, Trinidad and Tobago had eight points from four matches, finishing one point behind

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. On 11 June, Fenwick had his contract "terminated" by the

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Personal life

Fenwick received a four-month prison sentence in September 1991 after being convicted of

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. He served two months of his sentence. Fenwick married Reyna Kowlessar, a

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lawyer, in January 2014.

References

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