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How and why I joined West Ham
How and why I joined West Ham United – Teddy Sheringham and other former West Ham players give a personal insight how they came to play in Claret and Blue:
https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2020/june/13-june/how-and-why-i-joined-west-ham-united-teddy-sheringham
38 year old Sheringham signed a one year deal with West Ham for the season 2004/05. That was the second consecutive season that West Ham, the club he had supported as a boy growing up in east London, played in the Championship. The Hammers had missed out to get back to the Premier League when they lost in the play-off-Final to Crystal Palace in May 2004. Then manager Alan Pardew phoned Teddy Sheringham who had been with PL Club Portsmouth the season before, and it didn’t take much to convince him to join West Ham.
Sheringham scored in his first West Ham game, went on to net 20 goals that season and helped the Hammers to achieve promotion to the PL (winning the play-offs with a win over Preston Northend). He was named Championship player of the year.
In the top flight, Sheringham would go on to reach another FA Cup Final and become both the Premier League’s oldest outfield player (40 years, 272 days) and oldest player to score in a Premier League match (40 years, 268 days), two records that still stand to this day.
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