After Eric Cantona decided to hang up his boots in 1997, Manchester United raised a few eyebrows by signing Teddy Sheringham from Tottenham.
Cantona, who had won four league titles and two FA Cups at United, left some pretty big shoes to fill, and at 31, Sheringham was perhaps not the most obvious player to do it.
Not that he felt any pressure.
“When I joined Tottenham, Lineker had just left, and I took his No.10 shirt,” he tells Planet Football.
Read the full in-depth interview with Sheringham here.
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