Club career: Born in Liverpool, the son of Don Donovan (who won five Irish caps in the 1950s when he was at Everton), Terry was set for a teachers' training course in London when Grimsby offered him a professional contract in August 1976. He scored 35 goals in 70 games for the club, earning himself a £75,000 move to Aston Villa in 1979, but things didn't work out at Villa Park where he made just 17 league appearances before moving on. Had a loan spell at Oxford and spent a summer with Portland Timbers in the US league before returning to England where he had stints with Burnley, Rotherham and Blackpool - a cruciate ligament injury forcing his retirement in 1984.
International career: Won English schoolboys' caps against Scotland and Wales before writing to Johnny Giles to tell him of his eligibility to play for the Republic. Led the Irish attack on his debut in a 1979 friendly against Czechoslovakia in Prague (lost 4-1 - Pierce O'Leary, John Devine, Fran O'Brien, Jeff Chandler and John Anderson also made their debuts in that game), but made just one more international appearance, as a sub against a West German B team in Bremen (May 1981 - lost 3-0).
Where is he now? Took a Business Studies course after his playing career ended and for the past 13 years has run a successful Financial Services company. Now 41, Donovan lives in Tetney in Gloucestershire.
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