Chelsea have paid tribute to their former player Terry Venables in their matchday programme for Sunday's game at home to Brighton.
Venables, who started his playing career at Chelsea, died last weekend at the age of 80.
After joining Chelsea as a youth player in 1958, Venables went on to play over 200 senior games for the Blues and scored 31 goals.
He won the League Cup with Chelsea in 1965 and also helped the club to earn promotion to the top tier of English football.
Chelsea included a picture of Venables on the cover of their matchday programme and reflected on the contribution that he made to the club.
As reported by the club's official website, Dominic Bliss wrote: ‘Before El Tel, before the Three Lions, before any of the above, he was Venners and he was the jewel in the crown of a Chelsea youth setup that produced a generation of household names. This was his first footballing home, and he never forgot it.’
Chelsea also re-published an interview with Venables in which he spoke fondly of him time at Stamford Bridge and revealed that he didn't want to leave.
Venables said: ‘I didn’t want to leave Chelsea, I would have been happy to stay there always because of the closeness of the players.
'We all got on so great then, it was wonderful. There was hardly ever a bad word said between us and the players were very close. I think we all would have liked to have gone on and on, but that wasn’t to be as is often the case, and things had to change. But I’ve got wonderful memories, I would think that my best memory of football was playing at Chelsea.’
Venables departed for Tottenham in 1966 and also went on to play for QPR and Crystal Palace, while he earned two caps for England.
During a lengthy and varied managerial career Venables
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