So what will we miss, now El Tel has snubbed us?
The Mirror put together an interesting El Tel CV ...
Terry is notoriously slow to cash in on his fame. Though there are unfortunate exceptions like this…
Venables isn't just a isn't just a football manager and analyst - his performance of What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For on a 1974 Russell Harty chat show became legendary.
In 2002 he delighted the country with "in-no-way World Cup cash-in tune", England Crazy
Terry isn't just a crooner, football manager and analyst - he's an innovator. Items on his CV include 'This' strategy board game, which he managed to devise while coaching Barcelona.
He's an author too! In the 1970s, with old friend Gordon Williams, Terry wrote three abysmally titled crime novels about a London private eye: Hazell And The Dancing Jester, Hazell And The Three-Card Trick and Hazell Plays Solomon. All appeared under the pseudonym PB Yuill.
The Hazell books were made into a shortlived ITV series (1978-1979) starring Nicholas Ball.
Terry is known for his tactical acumen. His bon mots while analysing matches for ITV include "they didn't change positions, they just moved the players around" and "there are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way."
Venables won only two England caps and believes he scuppered his chances by telling Alf Ramsey that their parents had once been neighbours. Ramsey hated being reminded of his humble origins and told an interviewer who asked where his mum and dad lived, "In Dagenham, I believe."
Tel's new look of teak-effect tan, slicked-back hair and darkened eyebrows had pundit Martin Kelner describe him as: "The comparison that comes most readily to mind is Danny La Rue."
For those not old enough to have heard of Danny La Rue ... he was a cross-dresser.