Load of gonads.
What Sheringham did was nothing like what Campbell did.
- Sheringham didn't spend two years lying about signing a new contract that he never had any intention of signing.
- Sheringham didn't promise that his "bond with Spurs fans will never be broken" while holding secret talks with Arsenal.
- Sheringham didn't leave on a free, thereby denying Spurs a potential ?ú20 million transfer fee while lining his own pockets instead.
- Sheringham didn't walk around the pitch at WHL after the last game of the season, soaking up the crowd's adoration, fully in the knowledge that he was about to stick the knife in our backs.
- Sheringham didn't join Spurs' bitter local rivals.
And guess what................Campbell did do all those things.
What Teddy did was have a row with Alan Sugar. After the brief period of progress during the Klinsmann season, Spurs had gone backwards. Teddy knew it. We all knew it. Teddy wanted what we all wanted - for the club to show some ambition and to start competing properly again. And he said as much to Sugar. Sugar's response, as per usual, was to throw his toys out of the pram. As a consequence of Teddy's show of dissent, Sugar told Teddy that he could leave and immediately accepted the offer from Man Utd. Sheringham hadn't demanded a move but it was hardly surprising, in the circumstances, that he readily accepted.
If we had had a proper chairman at the time, there is no way that Teddy would have left. There is no way that he would have wanted to.
If Teddy was guilty of anything, it was only that he said a few harsh words about Spurs' lack of ambition soon after he joined Utd. That's why he was booed on his return. But, in fact, he was only articulating what every other Spurs fan thought at the time. That's why the majority of Spurs fans never blamed him for joining Man Utd and why even those that did soon tired of booing him and soon forgave him - other than you, obviously.
Oh, and by the way, we most certainly didn't pluck Teddy from obscurity and save his career. He was playing for Nottingham Forest, who were still managed by Brian Clough and still a force to be reckoned with. If Spurs hadn't signed him, another top club definitely would have.
In short, you don't half talk a load of brick at times, fella.
P.S. One other thing - I don't know of a single Spurs fan who, at the time, would have blamed Campbell for leaving. He was too good for us and he deserved to be playing for a team that stood a chance of winning silverware. If he had left in the right manner and gone to any team other than Arsenal (or Chelsea, I suppose), we would have been very sad but we would have understood and he would have gone with our blessing. Who knows, he might well have returned, welcomed like a hero, to play for Spurs again later in his career - just as Teddy did.
But he left on a free. To Arsenal. Having lied to the fans for two years. And he never once conceded that he might have brought the hate upon himself. Nor has he ever hinted at offering an apology for what he did.