Teddy did it, so can Kane

Teddy Sheringham left Tottenham at the age of 31 to win trophies and some did snigger when his first season at manchester United ended without major honours. ‘Oh Teddy, Teddy, you went to man United and won, erm, nothing at all’, to paraphrase gloating arsenal fans fresh from the double at the Charity Shield in 1998. Twelve months on, with the same teams contesting the Shield at Wembley, Sheringham raised three fingers to the arsenal end to signify the Treble and, by the time he returned to Spurs in 2001, he had a hat-trick of Premier League titles, which was enough to win that particular argument. Sheringham was an inspiration for harry Kane at the start of his career and can be again at the end.

READING face another struggle to retain their prized Category One academy status after another year of cost-cutting under absentee owner Dai Yongge, which serves as a grim irony as Michael Olise, one of their finest youth products, illuminates the Premier League with Crystal Palace and another, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, prepares for a Champions League final with Borussia Dortmund.

JADEN HESKEY, son of former Liverpool and england striker emile heskey, was among the goals on Friday as manchester City beat Leeds 4-0 to win the Fa youth Cup for the first time since 2020. City’s scorers in the final four years ago were Cole Palmer, morgan rogers and James mcatee, all sparkling this season in the Premier League.

A CRUSHING 8-1 defeat by Crawley Town in the League Two play-offs means MK Dons will mark their 20th anniversary in June as a fourth-tier club, one level below where they started after hijacking Wimbledon’s place in the pyramid. Little has gone to plan for chairman Pete Winkelman since the club’s season in the Championship in 2015-16 and sympathy is in short supply. Crowds rarely break 10,000 in a stadium with a capacity of more than 30,000. In 2004, when MK Dons were born, Crawley were promoted to the Conference (now the National League) as winners of the Southern League.