Terry Paine is an English former Professional footballer who was born in Winchester, Hampshire, on 23rd March 1939, and was a member of the England 1966 World Cup Winning Squad. Paine worked as a coach-builder for British Railways after leaving school and played amateur football for Winchester City. It was whilst playing for Winchester that he courted by a number of professional clubs and he had trials for Portsmouth and Arsenal, scoring twice for the latter in a trial match. It was however Southampton that Paine would sign for, after Winchester manager Harry Osman - a former Southampton player - contacted the club to personally recommend him to the Saints management team.

Terry Paine signed amateur forms with Southampton in August 1956 and then a professional contract in February 1957, before making his first team debut against Brentford in March 1957 just one week before his 18th birthday; Paine immediately impressed the Saints supporters. One week later, on his 18th birthday, Paine scored in a 1-1 draw against Aldershot and became a first team regular pretty much instantly. Paine was still a boy but his senior colleagues were impressed with his confidence and natural ability, and he matured enough to be given the chance to represent the England Under 23 team in 1960 against Holland - a game in which Paine scored. In the same year the Saints won the Division 3 championship, winning promotion to the Second Division, with Paine's crossing ability playing a huge part in the clubs achievement.

Paine's continued maturity, and his key role in a prospering Southampton team, led to Paine being made team captain in August 1961 at the age of just 22. Paine become well known for his sublime crossing ability, and was the catalyst for so many Southampton goals. As well as having a natural ability to create goals, Paine was also a great goalscorer and would often finish a season in double figures - a very good return for a winger. After a few seasons playing as an out and out right winger and providing pin point for great forwards including Ron Davies, Paine moved into a midfield position after teams began to lose their traditional winger based strategies. Paine was a Southampton player for some 18 years, finally leaving the club in 1974 at the age of 35, making a total of 713 League appearances for the Saints and scoring an impressive 160 goals. In all competitions, Paine played 873 games and scored 187 goals for the club, and holds the record for the most appearances, is 3rd in the clubs all time greatest goalscorers list, and also holds a record for being an 'ever-present' for 7 whole seasons.

Having already represented the England Under 23 team, Paine was awarded his first England cap in May 1963 by the new national manager Alf Ramsey, who was trying new players to fit into the unique playing systems that he had developed at Ipswich Town. He went on to score a hat trick at Wembley against Northern Ireland in the same year, becoming the first inside-right to do so since Stanley Matthews in 1937. Paine impressed in the next few years and was named in the final 22-man England 1966 World Cup Squad. Paine would play only one match in the tournament, a win against Mexico in the group stages, as Ramsey experimented by playing a different winger in each of the three group games - the other two wingers being John Connelly and Ian Callaghan. Paine was also injured in the game, which turned out to be his 19th and last game for England, scoring 7 goals in the process. Ironically, Southampton had just been promoted to the First Division and all of his International appearances were made as a Second Division player. In 1966 only the 11 players on the pitch for the final itself were awarded a winners medal, a much different system to the modern tournament, and as such Paine was not recognised as a world cup winner. He was finally awarded a winners medal, alongside another 10 members of the winning squad, in June 2009 at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street; this followed a long campaign by the Football Association.

Paine moved on to become a player-coach Hereford at the close of the 1974 season and went on to make a further 106 competitive appearances over a 3 year period, setting a record of 819 league appearances (since surpassed) and contributing to a successful campaign which saw Hereford win the Third Division championship in the 1975/76 season. Paine retired from playing professional football at the end of the 1976/77 season, at the age of 38, and remained in football in a variety of coaching positions. Paine took the managers job at non-league Cheltenham Town in the 1978/79 season, where he was also registered to play, and combined this duty with the full time job of running a pub in Cheltenham town centre. He spent most of the 1980s living in Johannesburg in various roles including a spell coaching at Wits University Football Club before returning in 1988 to work as a coach under John Sillett at Coventry City. He has since returned to South Africa and currently works as a football presenter on South African digital TV station Supersport, where he normally presents English Premiership or UEFA Champions League matches. He was also a 'Bid Ambassador' for the successful South African World Cup bid, which will see the country host the 2010 World Cup.