english football player and coach

Edward Paul Sheringham, MBE ( born 2 April 1966 ) is an english football director and early actor. He played as a forth, largely as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career. [ 1 ] Sheringham began his career at Millwall, where he scored 111 goals between 1983 and 1991, and is the golf club ‘s second all-time leading scorekeeper. He left to join First Division Nottingham Forest. A class late, Sheringham scored Forest ‘s first ever Premiership finish, [ 2 ] and was signed by Tottenham Hotspur. After five seasons at Spurs, Sheringham joined Manchester United where he won three Premiership titles, one FA Cup, one UEFA Champions League, an intercontinental Cup and an FA Charity Shield. In 2001, he 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 equalizer and provided the assist for Manchester United ‘s winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich, both goals coming in injury clock of the second base one-half.

After leaving Manchester United at the end of the 2000–01 season, Sheringham re-joined Tottenham Hotspur, where he was a miss finalist in the 2001–02 Football League Cup. He spent one season at newly promoted Portsmouth, scoring the golf club ‘s first Premier League finish, [ 3 ] before joining West Ham United, where he helped the cabaret profit promotion from the 2004–05 Football League Championship. The follow season, Sheringham appeared for West Ham in the 2006 FA Cup Final, becoming the third-oldest musician to appear in an FA Cup Final. [ 4 ] Sheringham is presently the eleventh-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premiership with 146 goals, and is the rival ‘s 19th-highest appearance godhead. [ 5 ] He holds the record as the oldest outfield player to appear in a Premier League equal ( 40 years, 272 days ) [ 6 ] and the oldest player to score in a Premier League pit ( 40 years, 268 days ). [ 7 ] He was capped 51 times for the England home football team, scoring 11 times, and played in the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups, equally well as the 1996 UEFA European Championship. He retired from competitive football at the end of the 2007–08 season with Colchester United, at the age of 42. He has since managed League Two club Stevenage, and ATK of the indian Super League .

Club career [edit ]

Millwall [edit ]

Sheringham began his master career at Millwall in 1982 at the age of 16, after impressing a scout when playing for non-league club Leytonstone & Ilford during a young person team game against Millwall. He was signed up, initially as an apprentice and scored on merely his second gear appearance for the club in a match aside at Bournemouth in January 1984. After being loaned out by the club doubly in 1985 to Aldershot and late a swedish side, Djurgården, he cursorily became a beginning choice selection at Millwall and during the deep 1980s formed a strike partnership with Tony Cascarino. He was the baseball club ‘s acme goalscorer in four seasons ( 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1990–91 ) and played in every game of the temper twice, in 1986–87 and 1990–91. [ 8 ]
[9] In their three seasons in concert at Millwall, Cascarino and Sheringham scored 99 goals between them. The 1987–88 season saw the golf club promoted to the First Division, then the highest grade of English league football, for the first time. Sheringham scored the beginning goal in Millwall ‘s beginning home game in Division One. Millwall concisely topped the postpone at the start of October 1988 and the goals of Sheringham ( 15 ) and Cascarino ( 15 ) kept Millwall in the lead four for most of the temper before fade after Easter to finish in 10th position. Sheringham said in his autobiography : “ It was a crazy exhilarating clock time. There we were, fiddling Millwall, in our first season in the First Division and topping the mesa until about March. Everybody said it could n’t last and of path it could n’t and it did n’t, but we gave them all a good streak for their money. We were beating the best teams when we should n’t and getting away draws to which we had no right. ” [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Millwall ‘s spell in the clear fledge was not to last as they were relegated in the be season, finishing bottom of the Division after briefly topping the table again early in the temper. Sheringham was again top scorekeeper for Millwall with twelve goals, having missed ten league games through wound. [ 12 ] The club had an opportunity to bounce directly back up at the end of the 1990–91 season, reaching the semi-finals of the Division Two play-offs, but they were beaten by Brighton & Hove Albion and remained in the Second Division. Sheringham ‘s outstanding form during the 1990–91 temper saw him finish as the league ‘s highest scorekeeper with 37 goals, a draw which included four hat-tricks. With Millwall failing to return to the top flight, a departure for Sheringham looked inevitable. [ 13 ] In his final season at Millwall, Sheringham broke all of the club ‘s goalscoring records, scoring a total of 111 goals in all competitions in his eight years at the clubhouse. He was Millwall ‘s all-time leading scorekeeper until 2009. [ 14 ]

Nottingham Forest [edit ]

The 25-year-old Sheringham was sold to Nottingham Forest in a £ 2 million deal in July 1991 [ 15 ] to play aboard Nigel Clough. He did well for Forest and helped them finish one-eighth in the First Division at the end of the 1991–92 temper angstrom well as to reach the League Cup final, where they lost to Manchester United. Sheringham scored Forest ‘s first Premiership goal against Liverpool in August 1992 ( which was besides the first ever live finish shown on Sky Sports ) but a week later he was sold to Tottenham Hotspur for £2.1 million. [ 15 ] Forest went on to be relegated in 1992–93, having failed to adequately replace Sheringham in attack .

Tottenham Hotspur [edit ]

Sheringham with Tottenham Sheringham had a successful begin to his career at the clubhouse by being the Premiership ‘s top goalscorer in its inaugural season, scoring 22 goals ( 21 with Tottenham and one with Forest ). [ 15 ] His fall partners at White Hart Lane included Gordon Durie, Ronny Rosenthal, Jürgen Klinsmann and ultimately Chris Armstrong. In 1993–94, he was Tottenham ‘s top scorer with 14 premiership goals but played in precisely 19 games due to injury and this impacted negatively on Tottenham ‘s league form. Spurs finished 15th and were not wholly safe from relegation until the penultimate game of the season. They have not finished lower than this ever since. [ 16 ] The be season was well, as he helped Spurs finish seventh in the Premiership and reach the semi-final of the FA Cup, barely missing out on european football for the 1995–96 season. Jürgen Klinsmann, who partnered Sheringham during the 1994–95 season, was subsequently quoted as claiming that Sheringham was the most intelligent hit partner he had ever had. [ 17 ] Sheringham was enormously popular with the Tottenham fans and by the mid-1990s was hard established as one of the most highly rated strikers in the Premiership. however, despite his prolific strike rate by the end of the 1996–97 season he was 31 years old and had even to win a major trophy in a career which had so far cross 15 years ; many pundits considered him past his best and likely to finish his career without major honours .

manchester United [edit ]

In June 1997, Sheringham agreed to join Manchester United in a £3.5 million bargain. [ 18 ] He was signed to replace the iconic Eric Cantona whose retirement had left the Old Trafford faithful demanding a big name to fill the gap. His first competitive game for the cabaret was against Chelsea in the 1997 FA Charity Shield which United won on penalties. His first league field day was against his former employers, Tottenham, at White Hart Lane. Throughout the game, Sheringham suffered jeers and boo from his former fans, who had been angered by the fact that Sheringham had accused Tottenham of lacking ambition when he made his transfer. In the sixtieth moment with the score at 0–0, Sheringham missed a punishment, although ended up on the winning side as two deep goals gave United the winnings. Sheringham ‘s beginning season at Old Trafford was difficult – although he scored 14 goals in all competitions he failed to meet expectations as the 1997–98 season ended without the league title. Towards the end of the season, during a game at Bolton Wanderers, an incidental occurred that furthered the animosity with colleague striker Andy Cole. When Bolton scored, Sheringham blamed Cole, his mint partner and Cole then refused to talk to him. The breakdown in their relationship was never resolved, and reputedly they never spoke again. [ 19 ] This had started three years previously in 1995 when Sheringham had snubbed Cole as the latter came on to make his international debut. [ 20 ] meditation that Sheringham would leave United increased just after the 1998–99 season got afoot, when Dwight Yorke moved to Old Trafford from Aston Villa. Yorke immediately formed a prolific partnership with Cole as United went on to regain the league style on the final day of the season. Sheringham ‘s first-team chances were relatively limited but he distillery managed to make adequate appearances to qualify for a backing decoration at the end of the season – at the age of 33 he had won his first major trophy. A week late he came off the substitutes bench to score United ‘s opening goal in a 2–0 frustration of Newcastle United in the FA Cup final to secure the double. [ 21 ] Four days after the FA Cup triumph, Sheringham scored a dramatic stoppage-time counterweight against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final, having come on as a stand-in earlier in the plot. With seconds of stoppage-time remaining, Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored from Sheringham ‘s headed flick-on, and United won a double of the Premiership, FA Cup and european Cup with Sheringham – having not won a major honor in his 15-year career on leaving Spurs – nowadays having won every top-level trophy in the english game. [ 22 ] Sheringham ‘s first-team chances remained limited during 1999–2000, but he still played enough times to merit another Premiership claim decoration. In 2000–01, United secured a third consecutive league title, with Sheringham top-scoring for United and playing some of the best football of his career. [ 23 ] In April 2001, he was voted Footballer of the year by both the Professional Footballers ‘ Association and Football Writers ‘ Association. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] His fine human body ensured that he was still involved with the national slope despite being in his 35th year, being named in the squad for the 2002 World Cup .

retort to Tottenham Hotspur [edit ]

At the end of the 2000–01 season, Sheringham ‘s four-year contract at Old Trafford expired. He was facing stiffer rival than ever for the places up front, most of all from United ‘s raw Dutch striker Ruud avant-garde Nistelrooy. He refused United ‘s offer of a 12-month condense [ 26 ] and returned to Tottenham on a free transfer as one of raw coach Glenn Hoddle ‘s first signings. [ 27 ] In his beginning season back, Sheringham helped Tottenham to a ninth-place finish, the baseball club ‘s highest in 6 years, and to reach the League Cup final where they lost 2–1 to Blackburn Rovers, with Sheringham being brought down in the penalty area in the last minute for what he believed to be a punishment. [ 28 ] 2002–03 brought a similar mid table finish, although Tottenham had topped the Premiership three games into the season. Sheringham made 80 appearances in all competitions for Tottenham in this time period, scoring 26 goals. [ 29 ] Sheringham and Clive Allen were inducted into the Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame on 8 May 2008. [ 30 ]

portsmouth [edit ]

On the death of his Tottenham compress at the end of the 2002–03 season, Tottenham decided not to offer Sheringham a new sign [ 31 ] and he joined Portsmouth in their first base season in the Premier League. [ 32 ] Sheringham became the oldest premiership musician to score a hat-trick when he scored three against Bolton early on in the season. [ 33 ] Despite this, he was only contracted to the cabaret for one season and, despite scoring in his final examination game ( a 5–1 acquire victory over Middlesbrough with the club already secure in the top flight ), [ 34 ] at the end of the 2003–04 season, Portsmouth decided not to offer the 38-year-old striker another abridge but he insisted that he wanted to continue his top fledge career at another club. [ 35 ] Sheringham made 38 appearances for Portsmouth, scoring ten-spot goals. [ 15 ]

West Ham United [edit ]

Sheringham then dropped down a class to West Ham United in the Football League Championship, [ 36 ] and was the division ‘s third-highest goalscorer with 20 goals ( 21 in all competitions ) – one of the highest score seasons of his career. He won the Championship Player of the Season award, [ 37 ] and helped the Hammers reach the 2005 Football League Championship play-off Final where they beat Preston North End to return to the Premiership after two seasons in the Football League. At the end of the 2004–05 season, Sheringham ‘s annual condense expired and he agreed to sign on for another season, this time bet on in the Premiership, at Upton Park. [ 38 ] After a second-half appearance against Charlton Athletic on 2 April 2006, Sheringham joined a humble group of footballers, including Les Sealey, John Burridge, Gordon Strachan and later Ryan Giggs, who have played top-flight football while in their 40s. [ 39 ] On 19 August 2006, he became the oldest outfield player in the history of the division, at 40 years 139 days. [ 40 ] Sheringham signed a narrow to play for West Ham until the end of the 2006–07 season, [ 41 ] and was a actor at the club after his 41st birthday. On 13 May 2006, Sheringham became the third oldest player to appear in an FA Cup final, at 40 years and 41 days old. The bet on ended 3–3, with Liverpool winning the trophy in a penalty gunfight. Sheringham was the lone West Ham player to convert his kick as Liverpool won the gunfight 3–1. On 26 December 2006, at the age of 40 years and 266 days, he beat his own record for oldest premiership scorekeeper, with the finish in a 2–1 kill to Portsmouth. [ 42 ] On 30 December 2006, he broke the commemorate for oldest premiership outfield player once more, playing in the 1–0 defeat against Manchester City, aged 40 years and 270 days. [ 43 ] Sheringham besides appeared in 11 FA Cup, League Cup, and UEFA Cup games for West Ham, scoring two goals .

Colchester United [edit ]

After being released by West Ham, Sheringham signed for Colchester United in July 2007 and was given the count 8 shirt. [ 44 ] He started Colchester ‘s first game of the season, away at Sheffield United, [ 45 ] and scored the first goal in a 2–2 home draw against Barnsley a workweek subsequently. [ 46 ] 7 days belated he scored again, in a 3–0 acquire at Preston North End. [ 47 ] Having just served a three equal pause after being sent off against Coventry, Sheringham was once again amongst the scorers in Colchester ‘s 2–1 succeed at Hillsborough over Sheffield Wednesday. [ 48 ] He scored his fourthly and final examination Colchester goal in a 3–1 FA Cup frustration to Peterborough United on 5 January 2008. [ 49 ] Sheringham made only 3 league appearances in 2008, the last of which came against Stoke City on 26 April 2008, the final game at Layer Road. [ 50 ] Whilst at Colchester, Sheringham was the oldest actor in all four divisions of the Football League, and is now part of the elect list of players who have achieved more than 700 League appearances in their career. He retired at the end of the 2007–08 season, his career ending on a low note as Colchester were relegated from the Championship – the club ‘s first relegation for 18 years. [ 51 ]

International career [edit ]

Something of a late developer on the international setting, Sheringham did not win his first base England cap until the senesce of 27 in 1993. Under the reign of coach Terry Venables ( 1994–96 ) Sheringham came to be the prefer fall upon partner for Alan Shearer. During this fourth dimension, England had a wealth of strikers with the likes of Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, a young Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand all battling to spouse Shearer in the England team. [ citation needed ] The two formed a celebrated partnership at external level, as they complemented each early ‘s strengths : Shearer the absolute goalscorer, big, impregnable and potent, Sheringham equitable ‘dropping off ‘ his mint spouse, finding spaces, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The copulate came to be known as ‘The SAS ‘ ( ‘Shearer and Sheringham ‘ ) and their most successful clock together came in the 1996 european Championships, held in England. Their most celebrated contribution was in the 4–1 victory over the Netherlands, a game in the possibility group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were finally knocked out in the semi-finals, many believed that that police squad of players such as Sheringham and his contemporaries including Paul Gascoigne, Steve McManaman, Tony Adams and Paul Ince, had done the state gallant. At this fourth dimension, the England police squad were besides criticised heavily in the media for their part in respective off the field incidents during the lead up to the tournament, where Sheringham, McManaman and Gascoigne were photographed drinking heavily and playing “ dentist professorship ” drinking games arsenic well as destroying the first classify cabin of a Cathay Pacific flight which went down ill with the public. [ citation needed ] Sheringham continued to be a first choice choice under newly England coach Glenn Hoddle ( 1996–99 ) until the egress of new adolescent ace Michael Owen during the course of 1998 saw him overshadow. Although Sheringham began the 1998 FIFA World Cup as a starting player with Owen on the bench, after Owen replaced him and about turned around a get the better of against Romania in England ‘s second game of the tournament, it seemed probably that Sheringham ‘s front production line international career had come to an conclusion. [ citation needed ] He was not selected at all for the 2000 european Championships by then coach Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer ( despite being four years younger than Sheringham ) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new coach Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a restitution to external favor for him. He was frequently deployed as a tactical alternate late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play. In 2001, Sheringham scored an significant goal for England against Greece in a World Cup qualifying match within 15 seconds of coming on as a substitute, although this event is overshadowed by the 93rd minute equalising free-kick by David Beckham. [ citation needed ] He was selected as separate of Eriksson ‘s 2002 FIFA World Cup team after impressing throughout the 01–02 season with his club, and played in the celebrated 1–0 win against Argentina, about scoring a goal with a fusillade that was well saved by the Argentine goalkeeper, and made his final England appearance as a alternate in the 2–1 quarter-final frustration to Brazil in Japan. His twelve appearances for Eriksson were all as a stand-in. [ 52 ] At the age of 36, that defeat signalled the final end of Sheringham ‘s international career, during which he had earned fifty-one caps and scored eleven times for England. [ citation needed ]

manner of play [edit ]

A versatile forward, Sheringham was able of playing as a striker and besides as a supporting forward, courtesy of his ability both to grudge and create goals. [ 53 ] Due to his imagination, his ability to read the plot, and his short exceed ability, Sheringham was adequate to of playing off another striker, in a bass, creative function, where he served as an assist supplier, in particular in late years, as he lost pace and stamen. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] He besides possessed good technical ability and upper body strength, which allowed him to retain possession in the box and hold up the ball when playing with his back to goal, and subsequently lay it off to his teammates. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] [ 58 ] As a centre-forward in his prime, he was besides very effective and extremely fecund, due to his accurate finish, opportunism in the area, intelligence, and his ability in the breeze, which enabled him to be regarded as one of the top Premier League forwards of his generation. [ 54 ] [ 59 ]

Poker career [edit ]

Upon his retirement from professional football in 2008, Sheringham has been a noticeable calculate on the global poker picture, [ 60 ] playing in respective competitions global. He made the final table in the €5,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event in the EPT Vilamoura, finishing 5th out of a field of 384 players, winning €93,121. [ 61 ]

Coaching career [edit ]

In May 2014, Sheringham was appointed as an attacking coach with West Ham United. [ 62 ] He was credited with a change in West Ham ‘s style of play which led to a run of good shape at the beginning of the 2014–15 season, earning striker Diafra Sakho the Premier League Player of the Month award for October 2014. [ 63 ] On 21 May 2015, Sheringham was appointed to his first managerial character, taking charge of League Two english Stevenage, replacing Graham Westley. [ 64 ] With the club struggling with injuries, he registered himself as a player, aged 49, for a Herts Senior Cup match against Welwyn Garden City in November of that year, but did not play. [ 65 ] He was sacked on 1 February 2016, with the club 19th in the league having collected lone three points from their previous eight matches. [ 66 ]

On 14 July 2017, Sheringham was named as the new heading coach of amerind Super League club ATK. [ 67 ] On 24 January 2018, Sheringham was sacked by ATK after winning only three of his ten games in charge of the Kolkata -based equip. [ 68 ]

personal life [edit ]

Sheringham ‘s son Charlie, born in 1988, besides became a professional football player. The two made the FA Cup third round draw in concert in December 2013. [ 69 ] Sheringham has two more children with Kristina Andriotis, whom he married in 2016. [ 70 ] Earlier in his life, he dated models Danielle Lloyd and Katie Price. [ 71 ] In 2020, Sheringham competed on the first british series of The Masked Singer, masked as “ Tree ”. [ 72 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

International [edit ]

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
England[76] 1993 2 0
1994 3 0
1995 7 2
1996 9 3
1997 8 3
1998 8 1
1999 1 0
2000 1 0
2001 4 2
2002 8 0
Total 51 11
Scores and results list England’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sheringham goal.[76][77]

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 12 January 2018.[78]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record
P W D L Win %
Stevenage 21 May 2015 1 February 2016 33 7 10 16 0 21.2
ATK 14 July 2017 24 January 2018 10 3 3 4 0 30.0
Total 43 10 13 20 0 23.3

Honours [edit ]

Djurgården
Millwall [ 79 ]
Nottingham Forest
Manchester United [ 80 ]
West Ham United
Individual

References [edit ]