Tim Sherwood

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Tim Sherwood
Full name	Timothy Sherwood
Date of birth	February 2, 1969 (age 38)
Place of birth	St Albans, England
Height	6'0"
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987-1989 1989-1992 1992-1999 1999-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005	Watford Norwich City Blackburn Rovers Tottenham Hotspur Portsmouth Coventry City	32 (2) 71 (10) 246 (25) 93 (12) 30 (1) 11 (0)
National team
1999	England	3 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15/2/2007. * Appearances (Goals)

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.

He made his debut 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.

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 6th February 1999.

Tim made an impressive debut at the age of 30 for England in their 3-1 victory over Poland at Wembley on 27th March 1999, his debut being handed to him by new England manager Kevin Keegan. 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. 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.

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 15th 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 29th 2003.

The News of the World speculated on 6th June 2004 that Tim would be joining newly promoted QPR. In the end, he signed for Peter Reid's Coventry City on 9th July 2004 and vowed to win his third promotion to the Premiership. At the end of the 2004/5 season, Coventry announced that Tim could leave on a free transfer. He parted company with the Sky Blues by mutual consent on 1st July 2005.