Tim Sherwood

Tim Sherwood
Personal information
Full name	Timothy Sherwood
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder

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Tim Sherwood (born 2 February 1969 in St Albans, England) is a professional footballer. He has played for Watford, Norwich City, Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth and Coventry City.

The highlights of his career include captaining Blackburn Rovers to the 1995 Premiership title and becoming a full international for England. He also won a runners-up medal in the 2002 League Cup Final with Tottenham Hotspur. Tim is famous for having very strange ears and as a result, has had a number of unusual haircuts in an attempt to hide them.

He made his début for Watford against Sheffield Wednesday on September 12 1987. 31 more league appearances followed in Division Two. He moved to Norwich City and notched up a total of 88 games and 13 goals in Norwich colours before joining Blackburn Rovers in February 1992.

As one of Kenny Dalglish's first signings for Blackburn, he initially struggled to make the first team but became an integral part of Dalglish's big spending Rovers side. Under Tim's captaincy, Blackburn finished second in the Premiership in 1993-94 before winning it the following season. At this point it was a surprise that he did not gain international recognition, adding only an England B cap to the England Under 21 honours he picked up whilst at Norwich. Interestingly, during his time at the club Dalglish had wanted to sign both Zinedine Zidane and Christophe Dugarry who were playing in France for FC Girondins de Bordeaux, however Rovers Chairman Jack Walker reportedly said to Dalglish: "Why do you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?" [1]

With Sherwood unsettled in 1999 and having family and business links in Hertfordshire, Tottenham and Arsenal were the firm favourites for his signature, with George Graham again prepared to offer £4million for his services. This speculation came true in the first week of February 1999 as Sherwood joined Spurs supposedly for £3million. He made his debut as an 87th minute substitute for Mauricio Taricco in the 0-0 draw with Coventry on 6 February 1999.

Tim made his début at the age of 30 for England in their 3-1 victory over Poland at Wembley on 27 March 1999, his début being handed to him by new England manager Kevin Keegan. However, continued poor form for Tottenham meaant that he didn't make Keegan's squad for Euro 2000 and he quite rightly never represented England again. In the autumn of 2000, Tim was surprisingly linked by the media with a move back to Vicarage Road whilst January 2001 saw a return to Ewood Park mooted in the media.

The summer of 2001 was filled with rumours regarding Tim's future. Two years of dreadful performances led to speculation that Tim would leave Tottenham. In June 2001 saw Tim linked with a £3million to Wolves whilst Aston Villa were also linked with rumours suggesting an exchange for David Ginola. July 2001 saw the media speculate regularly that Sherwood would be departing from Tottenham. On the 15th, he was linked with a £2million move to Southampton. A similar fee was suggested on the 22nd with a move to Everton. On the 29th, Tim was linked with moves to West Ham and Wolves.

Despite having absolutely no footballing talent whatsoever , transfer speculation continued into the new year with January 2002 seeing Tim linked with a move to Scottish giants Rangers, possibly as part of a deal that would bring Tore André Flo to White Hart Lane. On 15 August the media suggested another move to the South Coast with Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth said to be preparing a £400,000 bid.

In January 2003, Tim leaked to the press that he had had a major argument with Spurs manager Glenn Hoddle and that Hoddle had told him that he would never play for the club again. Clubs said to be interested in this development included Portsmouth, Sunderland, Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion, Charlton Athletic and Bolton Wanderers.

Throughout January 2003, Sherwood was linked with Portsmouth. The media then reported his imminent signing for West Brom only for him to move to Portsmouth on a four month contract on January 29 2003 as Harry Redknapp needed a stop gap as Tim was obviously not good enough for a longer deal.

The News of the World speculated on 6 June 2004 that Tim would be joining newly promoted QPR. In the end, he signed for Peter Reid's Coventry City on 9 July 2004 and vowed to win his third promotion to the Premiership. At the end of another very poor season for Tim, Coventry announced that he could leave on a free transfer. He parted company with the Sky Blues by mutual consent on 1 July 2005.

Tim had been doing some punditry work for Sky Sports but his dull monatone voice, his frightening appearance and biased opinions led them not to offer him a longer contract and he was surprisingly been snapped up by Setanta Sports.

He has since pledged to be a tough pundit for Setanta Sports. If his previous punditry is anything to go by, tough obviously means dull, bitter and unfounded

External links

Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk