Treble winning Manchester United striker and one of English football's great thinking forwards
FootballTeddy Sheringham did not need to be the fastest man on the pitch. He was usually the one who had already worked out where the ball was going.
Born in Highams Park in 1966, Sheringham came through at Millwall before making his name as the inaugural Premier League's first ever top scorer at Nottingham Forest and then Tottenham in 1992 to 1993. Six years later Sir Alex Ferguson signed him for Manchester United, where his career peaked on a single extraordinary night in Barcelona in May 1999.
Coming off the bench in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich with United losing 1 to 0, Sheringham scored the equaliser and assisted Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's winner in stoppage time to complete the treble. He had already picked up a Premier League and FA Cup winner's medal in the same week. The following season he was named PFA and Football Writers' Player of the Year, aged 35.
He played top flight football until he was 42, a remarkable longevity built on game intelligence rather than athleticism. Since retiring he has been a regular on the punditry circuit and one of the sharper observers of the English game, bringing the same quiet, clever reading of a match to the stage that he once brought to the penalty box.
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