Teddy Sheringham MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Edition Signed
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Teddy Sheringham MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Teddy Sheringham with Mel Webb and published by Little, Brown and Company, London, in 1998. Signed and inscribed to a previous owner by Sheringham on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine) with only minor wear to the pictorial dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions. There is slight tanning to the pages.
Born in the year of England's 1966 World Cup triumph, Teddy Sheringham expects to make a significant impact in the tournament in France in June/July 1998. For seven years, from 1984 to 1991, Teddy played for unfashionable Millwall in south-east London, scoring over 100 goals under the watchful eye of his first great manager, George Graham. But it was his subsequent transfers to Nottingham Forest (and Brian Clough) and then to Tottenham Hotspur (under Terry Venables) that made him famous and propelled him into the England side.
Teddy's move from Forest to Spurs in 1992 is even now the subject of an FA inquiry into the notorious 'bung' allegations surrounding the exchange. He was a star at Europe's most glamorous club, Manchester United, Teddy was playing for yet another great manager to have recognised his talents - Alex Ferguson. Sheringham played as a forward, mostly as a second striker, in a 24-year professional career. Sheringham is currently the ninth-highest goalscorer in Premier League history with 147 goals, and is the competition's 19th-highest appearance maker.
He holds the record as the oldest 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). He was capped 51 times for the England national football team, scoring 11 times. He appeared in the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1996 UEFA European Championship. Sheringham retired from competitive football at the end of the 200708 season with Colchester United, at the age of 42.
In his autobiography, he tells the story of his life and career, during which he has played under a quintet of high-profile managers in George Graham, Brian Clough, Terry Venables, Alex Ferguson and Glenn Hoddle. A tale of at least five great managers - and one great player.
"Teddy Sheringham is a player in a million, a footballer who throughout a long and distinguished career has remarkably managed to combine the twin talents of being both an avid taker and unselfish maker of goals. In his warm-hearted foreword to this revealing autobiography, Terry Venables, Sheringham's erstwhile manager at club and international level, hails the Manchester United and England player as a man whose remarkable nose for goal is matched only by his intelligence and generosity of spirit in the striker's sometimes lonely and always very public role...
Teddy Sheringham is a unique footballer, a broadsheet performer in a tabloid world. In this frank and entertaining book, his story proves that, in a young man's game, precocity is still no substitute for vision, maturity and a perfectly weighted through ball."
256 pages. Illustrated with 16 pages black & white photographs.
ISBN: 0316647284
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