Terry McDermott
Terence " Terry " McDermott ( born December 8, 1951 in Kirkby, Merseyside, England ) is a retired English footballer who was there active as a midfielder in the successful team of FC Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s and completed 25 international matches for the English national Team.
Sports career
McDermott was a supporter of Liverpool FC in his childhood, but was not initially discovered by talent scouts of the local clubs in the Merseyside, so he instead at a young age the Bury FC joined. His first steps in the English Premier League, he made then in 1973, after he had switched to Newcastle United.
With Newcastle he reached the final of the FA Cup, where he faced Liverpool in 1974. Newcastle lost the game 0-3, with McDermott should be at the club just six months later, who had won that day.
Liverpool manager Bob Paisley, who was in his first season after the resignation of Bill Shankly, McDermott took in November 1974 back to Merseyside. McDermott's development start very hesitant in the first two years. He drew a few games in the team and could not play in the ordinary formation. Liverpool won in 1976 both the English championship and the UEFA Cup, but McDermott had in the league do not have enough inserts that were needed for a medal. In addition, he was not in the squad for the European games. There were increasing then the voices that predicted a premature change McDermott. This decision, however, willing to stay at Anfield and was instrumental in the success in the following season.
McDermott was a regular in the Liverpool team that in 1977 the English Championship defended. His goal against local rivals Everton in the semi-finals of the FA Cup, a lob as a pivot shot from outside the penalty area, was also chosen by the BBC as a goal of the season. The game itself ended with 2:2 and Liverpool won the replay. The simultaneous success in the semi-finals of the European Cup of Champions then led in May 1977 two finals at Wembley and Rome within three days. If both finals had been won, Liverpool had won a historic triple, which was previously managed any club.
However, McDermott lost with Liverpool's FA Cup final against Manchester United and then could not achieve this goal. Only three days later, McDermott was able to contribute his goal to make it 1-0 to win the European Cup against Borussia Mönchengladbach, with Liverpool with a total of 3:1 had the upper hand in this encounter.
In the subsequent season McDermott debuted with a draw against Switzerland for the English national team.
Liverpool reached in 1978 for the first time in the League Cup final, which was to end in several respects memorable for McDermott. The first game at Wembley Stadium against Nottingham Forest ended goalless, with McDermott a goal was disallowed after the referee had seen an offside position by Kenny Dalglish during the Torschusses of McDermott. In the replay at Old Trafford McDermott resembled supposedly from the intermediate 0-1. However, this goal has been denied its recognition, as the referee awarded at McDermott's Ball on hand game. Forest ultimately won the game 1-0 and McDermott vowed after the game in an interview that he had not accepted the ball with his arm, but stopped regularly meet with his chest. In retrospect, the offside situation as the referee turned out correctly valued, whereas the goal in the replay was legal requirements.
The defeat in the League Cup followed, however, the renewed success in European competition national champion, in the final of the Club Brugge were beaten 1-0.
In the following season McDermott scored one of the most famous gates, which should serve as a model for speed and tactical behavior in counter- attacks. In a league match at Anfield against Tottenham Hotspur to Liverpool first was in the defense of a Eckballs. This was blocked by a coup for their own winger Steve Heighway. Within a few seconds, the ball landed in the Tor network from Tottenham after Heighway sprinted down the line and a slope served the current in the middle position in McDermott, who finished the attack with a header. The game then ended 7-0 for Liverpool.
At the end of the season Liverpool won again the English championship and defended it in 1980, in which McDermott was also elected by the fellow players in England's Footballer of the Year. He was also in the squad for England's Euro 1980 in Italy, where it was used in two group matches.
In 1981, McDermott won with Liverpool after a final victory against West Ham United for the first time the League Cup and was also on the team that defeated in the final of the European Cup of champions Real Madrid. Another English league titles followed in 1982, in which his position in the team began to lose importance. For the 1982 World Cup in Spain, he was not appointed to the England squad and also returned then no longer in the national team back. After only a short Substitutes for Liverpool in the 1982/83 season to McDermott then adopted by his longtime association.
McDermott returned to Newcastle United, where he acted alongside his former teammates Kevin Keegan and the young talents Chris Waddle and Peter Beardsley ascended into the First Division. He then left the club in 1984 to join the Irish club Cork City to join for one season.
As Keegan later coach in Newcastle was, he called McDermott as Kotrainer to his staff. There they managed to return to the English top and they missed in 1996 behind Manchester United only just the championship. After Keegan Newcastle then had to leave, McDermott served another season under Kenny Dalglish. McDermott left the club then, when Dalglish resigned later and his successor Ruud Gullit brought his own Kotrainer.
McDermott returned in 2005 to Newcastle in the same function under Graeme Souness back and kept this activity even after his dismissal under the current interim coach Glenn Roeder.
Achievements
- European Cup Winners ' Cup: 1977, 1978, 1981
- English Champion: 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982
- English League Cup winners: 1981, 1982
- Community Shield Winner: 1976, 1977 *, 1979, 1980, 1982 * ( shared title )