As Exeter City's League Two play-off final appearance against Coventry City marks the end of Grecians Director of Football Steve Perryman's 50 years in professional football, we will now look back at some of the key landmarks in his career.
1967: Perryman signs schoolboy forms with Tottenham Hotspur.
1969: He makes his debut for Spurs on September 27th, 1969 in a 1-0 defeat against Sunderland at White Hart Lane.
1970: Helps Spurs win the FA Youth Cup by beating Coventry City, by which time he had already broken into the first team.
1971: Bill Nicholson hands Perryman the captain's armband for the first time, and he also receives his first winners' medal as Spurs defeat Aston Villa to win the League Cup.
1972: Helps Spurs follow up their League Cup success with a UEFA Cup triumph, which was sealed with a win over fellow English side Wolverhampton Wanderers.
1973: Another League Cup winners' medal follows his first as Spurs beat Norwich City 1-0 at Wembley.
1976: Following the break-up of the 1973 League Cup winning side, Spurs are relegated from the First Division.
1977: He helps Spurs bounce straight back to the First Division at the first attempt as they finish as runners-up in the Second Division.
1981: Perryman wins his first FA Cup winners' medal as Spurs beat Manchester City after a replay thanks to a virtuoso display by Ricky Villa.
1982: Arguably the most successful year of Perryman's playing career as he wins the Football Writers' Player of the Year award and receives his first and only England cap in a friendly against Iceland. In addition to this, he also wins a second consecutive FA Cup winners' medal as Spurs beat Queens Park Rangers 1-0 in another replay thanks to a Glenn Hoddle goal.
1984: Helps Spurs clinch a second UEFA Cup as they beat Anderlecht.
1986: Leaves Spurs - ending a near-20 year association with the club - to join Oxford United on a free transfer. However, his stay at the Manor Ground proves to be brief as he returned to London in the same year to become player-manager of Brentford.
1990: Perryman leaves Brentford to become manager of Watford where he stays for three years before returning to White Hart Lane as assistant manager to Ossie Ardiles.
1994: Briefly becomes caretaker manager of Spurs following the dismissal of Ardiles.
1999: After managing Start in Norway, Perryman moves to Japan to take charge of Shimizu Pulse who he leads to the J1 League second stage championship, which earns him the J-League Manager of the Year award.
2001: Begins his 17-year association with Exeter City, as he guides the Grecians away from the Division Three relegation zone whilst working as a consultant to then manager Noel Blake.
2003: Returns to Exeter City as Director of Football, following their relegation from the Football League, and as well as overseeing the club's return to the Football League also oversees the managerial appointments of Eamon Dolan, Alex Inglethorpe and Paul Tisdale.
2012: Whilst watching the Grecians final game of their League One campaign against Sheffield United, Perryman was rushed to hospital after feeling unwell and later underwent emergency heart surgery at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. He would later return to work after several months of recuperation.
2018: Perryman steps down from his position with the Grecians following a 3-1 League Two Play-off final defeat against Coventry City - their second appearance in the final in two years - to mark a retirement from a career in the game that he can be rightfully proud of.
