Teddy Sheringham

Teddy Sheringham
Personnel
Surname	Edward Paul Sheringham
birthday	April 2, 1966
place of birth	Highams Park ,  England
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Leytonstone & Ilford
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1991	Millwall FC	220 (93)
1985	→  FC Aldershot  (loan)	5 0(0)
1985	→  Djurgårdens IF  (loan)	21 (13)
1991-1992	Nottingham Forest	42 (14)
1992-1997	Tottenham Hotspur	166 (76)
1997-2001	Manchester United	104 (31)
2001-2003	Tottenham Hotspur	70 (22)
2003-2004	Portsmouth FC	32 0(9)
2004-2007	West Ham United	76 (28)
2007-2008	Colchester United	19 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1988	England U-21	1 0(0)
1993-2002	England	51 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2015-2016	Stevenage FC
2017-2018	Amar Tomar Kolkata
1 Only league games are given.

Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE (born April 2, 1966 in Highams Park , London ) is a former English football player . The striker played well over 750 league games between 1984 and 2008 and was one of the few professional footballers who still practiced their profession at the age of over 40. The attacker's most titled time was at Manchester United , where he won three English championships ( 1999 , 2000 , 2001 ), once the FA Cup (1999) and, above all, the Champions League in 1999. Characteristic of his style of play was the ability to score goals in the front line as a dangerous center forward and to offer the midfield an additional pass in combined football as a "hanging tip". Due to his services to football, the British Queen made him a Member of the British Empire in June 2007 .

Career

Getting started: Millwall FC (1983–1986)

After unsuccessful attempts to find accommodation by means of trial training in the youth department of Tottenham Hotspur , Orient FC and Crystal Palace , Millwall FC became aware of Sheringham when he played for Leytonstone & Ilford against the "young lions " from East London shortly before his 16th birthday started. Head scout Bob Pearson and youth coach Roger Cross invited their discovery to a trial period of six games. After these had been successfully mastered, Sheringham received a two-year training contract with the then third division club.

Sheringham first drew attention to himself in Millwall at a five-a-side tournament held in London - similar to the indoor sport of futsal . He won the competition and was allowed as a reward on April 20, 1983 in the 3-2 final victory over Lincoln City in the Football League Group Cup , a predecessor of the Football League Trophy , for the first time on the bench of the A-team. After another appointment in November 1983, he made his debut on January 15, 1984 against Brentford FC . At the next appearance against AFC Bournemouth a week later, he scored his first goal and the 1983/84 season he ended with seven league appearances, four of them from the start. A sporting breakthrough was not associated with it. Sheringham was seen as too playful in front of the goal and coach George Graham, as a supporter of the “old school”, preferred a striker of the classic character, i.e. physically present and with an uncomplicated goal. When Millwall FC rose to the second-rate Second Division in the 1984/85 season , Sheringham was completely left out with the exception of a substitute in the League Cup and was even offered to Brentford FC for £ 5,000. After a short loan period with fourth division club FC Aldershot ended in February 1985 with six goalless games, he seriously doubted his prospects in professional football.

His next path took him to Sweden to the then second division club Djurgårdens IF . The season there ran from April to October 1985 and in the distance Sheringham found his confidence back. He scored 13 goals in 21 league games and helped the club to rise to the Swedish elite class after a play-off win against GAIS Göteborg . According to his own account, this time had a key character for the subsequent career path, as Sheringham learned to exercise his responsibility as a professional footballer for his teammates. In a team that was paid strictly based on success, the Englishman understood that the beauty of a self-made goal is irrelevant. Millwall also reacted to this positive development and at the end of the 1985/86 season Graham had him play in 18 games - nine of them in the starting line-up.

Sporting breakthrough: Millwall FC (1986–1991)

The 1986/87 season was trend-setting for both Millwall FC and Teddy Sheringham himself. In the summer, George Graham had left the club for Arsenal and the sale of the club to a consortium led by Reg Burr led to major cuts. Numerous regular players such as John Fashanu , Steve Lowndes and Robert Wilson were sold and Sheringham was also to leave the club on a free transfer before he returned to the team under the new coach John Docherty after an advocacy from Bob Pearson . With a significantly slimmed-down squad, the club ranked last after nine games, before the young storm duo, which in addition to Sheringham brought up the 18-year-old Michael Marks , made a decisive contribution to staying up with a total of 23 league goals (Sheringham: 13, Marks: 10). Encouraged by this partial success, the club invested again in new players for the 1987/88 season and, above all, the commitment of Sheringham's future strike partner Tony Cascarino should prove to be a direct hit. Together, the two attackers scored 47 league goals - Sheringham just decided the internal top scorer score with 24 hits - and led the club to promotion to the top English league for the first time in its history. Characteristic for the attacking game of Millwall FC were long balls on the two storm tips, which were able to keep the ball in the opposing zone by winning header duels.

The Millwall FC team, strengthened only by Neil Ruddock , also impressed in the 1988/89 first division season and even led the table in the meantime, before falling back somewhat disappointingly to tenth place after only five points in the last ten games. Although Cascarino attracted most of the attention, Sheringham and his strike partner were again the club's top scorer with 15 goals. After this surprise season, a sobering season 1989/90 waited for the "lions", who had to go back to the second division as bottom of the table. A not insignificant factor was bad luck with injuries, from which Sheringham was not spared in November 1989 either. The previous offensive strength had been lost, Cascarino had left the club for Aston Villa in March 1990 and the dismissal of coach Docherty hadn't changed the fact that Millwall had only scored 13 goals in the last 20 winless league games, never more than one Hits per game - Sheringham's yield was twelve competitive matches during the season.

Last year for Millwall FC, Sheringham found his way back to his old level of performance in the second division under new coach Bruce Rioch . In contrast to previous years, the style of play was no longer characterized by kick and rush , but by ball possession and game control. Especially with a series of 20 goals in 23 games, Sheringham, who scored a total of 38 competitive game goals, together with the talent Jon Goodman were largely responsible for reaching the play-off games. With the loss to Brighton & Hove Albion , however, the dream of a direct return to the First Division burst . Sheringham, who not only became player of the year and top scorer in the second division, then turned down a contract extension in Millwall. Since he had now played in the focus of the English national team, he felt another year in the lower class as career damaging and for this reason also turned down an offer from league rivals Blackburn Rovers . The choice fell in July 1991 on the Nottingham Forest , trained by Brian Clough , which cost the services of the Londoner the then-internal record transfer fee of two million pounds.

Nottingham Forest (1991-1992)

At the side of Nigel Clough , the son of coach Brian, Sheringham got involved well in the new environment and led the club in the 1991/92 season not only with 13 league goals to a respectable eighth place. With the team, in which he could continue to cultivate his playing skills, he also moved into the league cup final, where he was defeated 0-1 to Manchester United. He scored his first goal in the newly created Premier League against Liverpool in August 1992 , but left Nottingham just a week later to return to his home in London. Terry Venables as coach of Tottenham Hotspur had made him an offer and since Sheringham had attached the "Spurs" from an early age, the choice was not difficult for him. The transfer fee was 2.1 million pounds and "Forest" was then unable to find an adequate striker replacement; at the end of the 1992/93 season it went for the club as bottom of the table down in the now called First Division second division.

Tottenham Hotspur, Part 1 (1992-1997)

Sheringham in the Spurs jersey

Tottenham had previously only scored two goals in four league games and so the reinforcement in the person of Teddy Sheringham was welcome. In the remaining games of the 1992/93 season he scored 21 league goals for the new club and plus the first goal for Nottingham, he won the first top scorer in the history of the young Premier League. After Venables had left the club for the English national team, they expected in the 1993/94 season under the Argentine successor Osvaldo Ardiles a further step in the direction of offensive football . However, this only succeeded to a limited extent and for a long time the Spurs were in acute danger of relegation, which was also due to Sheringham's injury problems - he scored 15 goals in only 21 competitive games.

The signing of Jürgen Klinsmann as a strike partner of Sheringham for the 1994/95 season ensured the next development spurt. With the arrival of the German world champion in 1990, the previous pressure was relieved from Sheringham's sole shoulders. He now had the freedom to let himself fall back as a "hanging tip" and to act as a link between midfield and storm, which in turn benefited Klinsmann in particular - who in a career review Sheringham described as his best attacking partner. The duo only worked together for one year, but after Klinsmann returned to Germany in the summer of 1995, Sheringham found a new partner in the 24-year-old Chris Armstrong .

Despite his own positive development, which had now catapulted him into the English national team, the title successes from club level did not materialize until 1997. At the age of 31 he was looking for a club with which he could also win the "big titles". So it was a good thing that Alex Ferguson, the coach of Manchester United, was looking for a suitable successor for Eric Cantona . Sheringham finally moved to " Old Trafford " in the summer of 1997 for 3.5 million pounds .

Manchester United (1997-2001)

He didn't have to wait long for his first trophy and in August he won the Charity Shield after beating Chelsea FC . In the league debut against his ex-club Tottenham (2-0), he missed a penalty, but in November 1997 at the latest he seemed to have arrived in Manchester after a series of eight goals in nine consecutive games. The season finally ended without another title win and Sheringham was also somewhat below expectations with 14 competitive game goals. There were also personal problems with teammates and storm colleague Andy Cole , whose mutual dislike went so far that they did not communicate verbally at all. When another attacker, Dwight Yorke, was committed shortly after the start of the 1998/99 season, Sheringham's prospects deteriorated increasingly. As a supplementary player, he only made 17 league appearances in one season, which in 1999 nevertheless earned him the first English championship of his career. In the following 2-0 final win in the FA Cup against Newcastle United , he came in the ninth minute as a substitute for the injured Roy Keane to train; two minutes later he already scored the opening goal. The highlight for him was without a doubt the final in the Champions League against FC Bayern Munich . After showing a good performance in the semifinals against Juventus Turin , he was now on the bench, but after being substituted in the middle of the second half, he made two actions in stoppage time that made "United" the 0: 1 deficit converted into a 2-1 win. In both cases he was in the right place after corners and initially equalized after a failed shot by Ryan Giggs and a short time later with a header for the template, which Ole Gunnar Solskjær converted. Later that year he won the World Cup with Manchester .

Sheringham found his way into the team more often in the 1999/2000 season, although he rarely appeared as a goalscorer himself with five goals in 27 league games. Nevertheless, it was enough to defend the title in the Premier League and in the 2000/01 season, the trophies were also in good shape over the long term. Between the beginning of September and the end of October 2000 he scored eleven goals in ten encounters and Sheringham was suddenly considered a key player in the attacking formation of Manchester United, who also ended up being his club's top scorer with 15 league goals. Although the Champions League round ended with a disappointing quarter-final against the old rival from Munich, his third English championship title in a row made up for it, as did the fact that both English football journalists and fellow players voted him England's footballer of the year in 2001 . In Manchester, he nevertheless refused a one-year contract extension that had been submitted to him. United had signed another high-profile attacker and competitor in Ruud van Nistelrooy and so Sheringham returned to Tottenham Hotspur on a free transfer in the summer of 2001.

Tottenham Hotspur, Part 2 (2001-2003)

At his old place of work, Glenn Hoddle had meanwhile taken over the coaching position. Hoddle was known for relying on experienced players in central positions and with his game intelligence Sheringham was able to let young talent grow by his side. Although he increasingly ran out of pace for the entire 90 minutes, he was still able to play with a double-digit hit rate at the highest level. In his second season 2002/03 he found 13 times in the opponent's housing and was together with strike partner Robbie Keane Spurs top scorer. There was no subsequent contract extension and so Sheringham moved to the newly promoted Portsmouth FC at the age of 37 .

Portsmouth FC (2003-2004)

Five goals in the first five games made it clear that Sheringham didn't just want to end his career on the south coast. He played a large part of the competitive games and came to nine Premier League goals at the end of the 2003/04 season. The goal of relegation was surely achieved, but after only a year Sheringham moved back to London. He accepted an engagement with West Ham United and accepted that after 13 years he would only play in the second highest English division.

West Ham United (2004-2007)

In the Football League Championship Sheringham immediately showed good performances and scored a total of 20 league goals in the course of the 2004/05 season. This earned him the award for best player ("Championship Player of the Season") and helped the club to move into the play-off games. This ultimately led to promotion to the Premier League, although Sheringham himself was only on the bench due to thigh problems. The contract, which originally ran for one year, was extended for another season and with his appearance on April 2, 2006 against Charlton Athletic , Sheringham became one of the few athletes who were still active in English top division football after their 40th birthday.

During his time at West Ham, which lasted until the end of the 2006/07 season after another contract extension, Sheringham moved more and more back into the role of the supplementary player. In addition, however, there were other records in relation to his advanced football age. After being one of the oldest participants in an FA Cup final on May 13, 2006 at the age of 40 years and 41 days - he also converted a penalty in the ultimately unsuccessful penalty shootout against Liverpool FC - he put another shot at the end of 2006 Milestones. With his last goal against FC Portsmouth (1: 2) on December 26, 2006 he is the oldest Premier League goalscorer to this day (40 years and 266 days) and with the final first division appearance four days later the oldest Premier League Field player in history. After a final appearance in the FA Cup against Watford FC (0-1) on January 27, 2007, Sheringham's first division career ended.

Colchester United (2007-2008)

At the age of 41 he moved again to the second division side Colchester United on a free transfer . There he was the oldest player in all four professional leagues and scored three goals in 19 league appearances - eleven of them from the start. After Colchester United had to relegate bottom of the table to Football League One , Sheringham ended his active career at the age of 42. Rumors of a possible comeback for amateur club Beckenham Town proved unfounded in September 2009.

English national team

Although Sheringham had already played in the English U-21 team in May 1988 and also attracted attention in the top English league with Millwall FC in the late 1980s, he had to wait until 1993 before he could play for an international the senior national team was granted. At the age of 27 he made his debut on May 29, 1993 in a 1-1 draw against Poland and under coach Terry Venables, the "late starter" between 1994 and 1996 became the preferred strike partner of striker Alan Shearer . He prevailed against competitors such as Andrew Cole , Ian Wright , Les Ferdinand and the young Robbie Fowler . Above all, the ability to “drop” into attacking midfield as an attacker and to create space for Shearer was decisive and made a difference to his competitors, who mostly acted as center strikers in the front line. In this formation, the English team went to the European Championship in their own country in 1996 and the 4-1 victory in the group stage against the Netherlands is probably the best appearance of the storm duo Shearer-Sheringham - both attackers scored two goals here. In the semifinals against Germany , he converted his penalty kick on penalties, which was lost after Gareth Southgate's subsequent miss .

Even under Venables successor Glenn Hoddle, Sheringham initially remained the first choice with the "Three Lions" until 1998, when the teenager Michael Owen attracted attention and pushed him to the bench during the World Cup in France . At the Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands he was completely disregarded under the then coach Kevin Keegan and so the international career of the now 34-year-old Sheringham seemed to be over. It was only when Alan Shearer, who was four years his junior, resigned that his way back to the squad was prepared. Under coach Sven-Göran Eriksson , however, he came from 2001 only on substitutions to the course, especially his intelligent game and the ability to "hold the ball" was appreciated. He scored an important goal on October 6, 2001, shortly after his substitution against Greece , which helped England qualify 2-2 for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea . During the finals itself, he was substituted on in all four English games. The appearance in the 1: 2 against Brazil was the 51st and last international match in his career; there were a total of eleven goals.

The Masked Singer

In January 2020 Sheringham took part as Tree in the British version of The Masked Singer and reached ninth of a total of twelve places.

Title / Awards

• English Championship ( Premier League ): 3 ×
  • 1999 , 2000 , 2001
• English Cup ( FA Cup ): 1 ×
  • 1999
• English Supercup ( Charity Shield ): 1 ×
  • 1997
• Champions League : 1 ×
  • 1999
• World Cup : 1 ×
  • 1999
• ZDS Cup : 1 ×
  • 1992
• England's Footballer of the Year : 1 ×
  • 2001 (journalists and players election)
• Premier League top scorer: 1 ×
  • 1993

Season statistics

society	league	season	league		FA Cup		League Cup		European Cup		Other		total
			Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates	Games	Gates
Millwall FC	Third Division	1983/84	7th	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	1
		1984/85	0	0	-	-	1	0	-	-	-	-	1	0
total			7th	1	-	-	1	0	-	-	-	-	8th	1
FC Aldershot	Fourth Division	1984/85	5	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	0
total			5	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	0
Djurgårdens IF	Division 1	1985	21st	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st	13
total			21st	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st	13
Millwall FC	Second Division	1985/86	18th	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18th	4th
		1986/87	42	13	3	0	3	2	-	-	-	-	48	15th
		1987/88	43	22nd	1	0	4th	0	-	-	-	-	48	22nd
	First Division	1988/89	33	11	2	1	3	3	-	-	-	-	38	15th
		1989/90	31	9	3	2	3	1	-	-	-	-	37	12
	Second Division	1990/91	46	33	3	2	3	2	-	-	-	-	52	37
total			213	92	12	5	16	8th	-	-	-	-	241	105
Nottingham Forest	First Division	1991/92	39	13	4th	2	10	5	-	-	-	-	53	20th
	Premier League	1992/93	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	1
total			42	14th	4th	2	10	5	-	-	-	-	56	21st
Tottenham Hotspur	Premier League	1992/93	38	21st	5	4th	4th	3	-	-	-	-	47	28
		1993/94	19th	14th	-	-	2	2	-	-	-	-	21st	16
		1994/95	42	18th	6th	4th	2	1	-	-	-	-	50	23
		1995/96	38	16	6th	5	3	3	-	-	-	-	47	24
		1996/97	29	7th	-	-	3	1	-	-	-	-	32	8th
total			166	76	17th	13	14th	10	-	-	-	-	197	99
Manchester United	Premier League	1997/98	31	9	3	3	-	-	7th	2	-	-	41	14th
		1998/99	17th	2	4th	1	1	1	4th	1	-	-	26th	5
		1999/00	27	5	-	-	-	-	9	1	-	-	36	6th
		2000/01	29	15th	2	1	-	-	11	5	-	-	42	21st
total			104	31	9	5	1	1	31	9	-	-	145	46
Tottenham Hotspur	Premier League	2001/02	34	10	2	1	6th	2	-	-	-	-	42	13
		2002/03	36	12	1	0	1	1	-	-	-	-	38	13
total			70	22nd	3	1	7th	3	-	-	-	-	80	26th
Portsmouth FC	Premier League	2003/04	32	9	3	1	3	0	-	-	-	-	38	10
total			32	9	3	1	3	0	-	-	-	-	38	10
West Ham United	Championship	2004/05	33	20th	2	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	36	21st
	Premier League	2005/06	26th	6th	4th	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	31	7th
		2006/07	17th	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	20th	2
total			76	28	7th	2	3	0	1	0	-	-	87	30th
Colchester United	Championship	2007/08	19th	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th	4th
total			19th	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th	4th
Career total			755	288	56	30th	55	27	32	9	-	-	898	355

Sources: national-football-teams.com

literature

• Bob Goodwin: Tottenham Hotspur - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2007, ISBN 978-1-85983-567-8 , pp. 202 f .

Web links

• Teddy Sheringham in the soccerbase.com database
• 'Teddy' Sheringham's A caps and goals

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Teddy Sheringham" (The Millwall History Files)
2. ↑ "Sheringham smouldering for success" (The Guardian)
3. ↑ "Teddy Sheringham - Manchester United FC: (Part 1) 1997-99" (Sporting Heroes)
4. ↑ "Teddy Sheringham - Manchester United FC: (Part 2) 1999-01" (Sporting Heroes)
5. ↑ "Sheringham to call time on career" (bbc.co.uk)
6. ↑ Beckenham Town admit defeat in Sheringham publicity stunt ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (kentishfootball.co.uk)
7. ^ "England - U-21 International Results 1986-1995 - Details" (RSSSF)
8. ↑ Ellie Harrison: The Masked Singer: Teddy Sheringham revealed as performing tree. In: The Independent . January 19, 2020, accessed on July 12, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Sheringham, Teddy ( English ) national-football-teams.com. Retrieved November 11, 2019.