‘The King is dead, long live Prince Edward’, wrote The Independent. But when Manchester United announced Teddy Sheringham as Eric Cantona’s replacement on June 27, 1997, not everybody was happy. Plenty were unsure about Sheringham when he arrived at Old Trafford from Tottenham for £3.5million, with questions raised about the wisdom and ambition of signing a 31-year-old, two months …
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