Happy Birthday Teddy Sheringham
Edward Paul “Teddy” Sheringham born April 2nd 1966 – MBE is an English football manager and player who was the player-manager of Stevenage until sacked on 1 February 2016. Sheringham played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career.
Football legend Teddy Sheringham has set up home with a blonde 20 years his junior. She’s only two years older than his son – but age has never been a hurdle to former England footballer Teddy Sheringham.
The ex-Tottenham star, who managed to play professionally until he was 41, played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career.
His career began at Millwall, where he played between 1983 and 1991, before joining First Division Nottingham Forest. A year later, Sheringham scored Forest’s first ever Premier League goal, and was signed by Tottenham Hotspur. After five seasons at Spurs, Sheringham joined Manchester United where he won three Premier League titles, one FA Cup, one UEFA Champions League and, in 2001, was named both the PFA Players’ Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year. The pinnacle of his career came when he scored the equaliser and provided the assist for Manchester United’s winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich.
After leaving Manchester United at the end of the 2000–01 season, Sheringham re-joined Tottenham Hotspur, where he was a losing finalist in the 2001–02 Football League Cup. He spent one season at newly promoted Portsmouth, scoring the club’s first Premier League goal, before joining West Ham United, where he helped the club gain promotion from the 2004–05 Football League Championship. The following season, Sheringham appeared for West Ham in the 2006 FA Cup Final, becoming the third-oldest player to appear in an FA Cup Final.
Sheringham is currently the ninth-highest goalscorer in Premier Leaguehistory with 147 goals, and is the competition’s 19th-highest appearance maker. He holds the record as the oldest outfield player to appear in a Premier League match (40 years, 272 days) and the oldest player to score in a Premier League match (40 years, 268 days).
Sheringham was capped 51 times for the England national football team, scoring 11 times. He appeared in the 1998 – 2002 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1996 UEFA European Championship.
Sheringham retired from competitive football at the end of the 2007–08 season with Colchester United, at the age of 42. Having been appointed as the manager of Stevenage in May 2015, he registered himself as a player at the club in November of that year, aged 49.
Happy Birthday Teddy, former England striker turns 50’s today !!!
