Career
Perryman was voted Football Writers" Association Football player of the Year in 1982 and made a club record 854 first team appearances for Tottenham. He is now the director of football at Exeter City. A midfielder and later defender, Perryman played in a club record 866 first team appearances, in all competitions for Tottenham Hotspur between 1969 and 1986 and was their longest serving player.
After leaving White Hart Lane Perryman moved to Oxford United in 1986, then Brentford as player-manager in the same year, before retiring in 1990.
Perryman became manager of Watford from 1990-1993 saving them from relegation in the early years, before managing Start in Norway (1995), Shimizu South-Pulse, (1996–2000) and Kashiwa Reysol in Japan (2001–2002). He also served as caretaker manager for Spurs in November 1994.
He then worked at Exeter City with no official title to help them stay in the then football Division 3. After this he returned to Japan to manage J.League side Kashiwa Reysol.
Perryman lent his name to a brand of Sports stores in the 1980s which were concentrated in the West London area and sported the Tottenham Hotspur cockerel.
There were stores in Ruislip, Greenford and Hayes (Middlesex). A store in Bergen, Norway, also opened in the early 1980s, and that is still running. Perryman now works as the director of football for Exeter City.
On 5 May 2012, while watching Exeter"s final game of the 2011-2012 season against Sheffield United at Street James Park he became unwell and was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where he underwent successful heart surgery.
A month later he revealed that he might have died if it had not been for the instant medical support available at the ground, and he spent three weeks in a coma on life support. He said he wanted to resume his job with Exeter City as soon as he was fit enough.
After 17 matches for England U21, Perryman made a solitary appearance for England, appearing as a 70th-minute substitute against Iceland on 2 June 1982.