Sheringham show is spot-on with fans

It was the Ted and Tim show on a rain-swept pitch as Discovery Bay defeated the Yau Yee League Select veterans 3-0 at the HKFC Citibank International Soccer Sevens last night. But there was no doubt who was the star off the pitch.

The fans who braved the weather clamoured for Teddy Sheringham. They cried for his autograph and the former England striker obliged graciously. The other striker, Hong Kong's Tim Bredbury, was forgotten.

Bredbury smacked in a brace of goals, one provided by his illustrious teammate, but the loudest cheer of the night came when Sheringham buried a penalty to complete a good start for Disco Bay in the Masters competition.

'I enjoyed that. It was a little bit of a blow after being out [on the town] the last couple of nights and it took a little while for the legs to get going,' Sheringham (pictured) said. 'I play on a similar surface with my friends, five-a-side, but we only run 15-20 yards at a time, not 60 or 70. The lungs were not used to it.'

Sheringham, 46, won 51 caps for England. He said he is glad that the national team is now under the charge of Roy Hodgson.

'We have a better chance [in Euro 2012] now than we did with [Fabio] Capello,' Sheringham said. 'That's the good thing. Whether we could win it is a different matter. Hodgson is a better choice than Capello - we were in disarray with him.'