Source: Daily_Mail
Charles Sale: Andrew Cole's tribute to his old enemy Teddy Sheringham
The famous feud between former Manchester United strike partnersAndy Cole and Teddy Sheringham had a remarkable postscript in Nigeriathis week.Cole and Sheringham barely communicated during their time togetherat Old Trafford after Sheringham publicly blamed Cole for Bolton's goalin a 1-1 draw in February 1998 so you would expect Teddy to be thelast person to be eulogised by his arch enemy.Sworn rivals: Cole and Sheringham More from Charles Sale. Charles Sale: Sam Hammam's deal resolves Cardiff City dispute18/12/09 CHARLES SALE: BBC playing rough on England games at World Cup finals16/12/09 Charles Sale: Multi-millionaire Ross playing ball with 2012 legacy16/12/09 CHARLES SALE: Bookies probing late rush on Ryan Giggs14/12/09 CHARLES SALE: Beeb hit by manager Brian Laws' Sheffield Wednesday axe13/12/09 Charles Sale: Stoke start clubs' fund for 2018 bid11/12/09 Charles Sale: Award is twice in a lifetime for golfing iconoclast Seve Ballesteros10/12/09 Charles Sale: New Notts County owners may signal Sven's end10/12/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE Yet Cole, part of an England 2018 World Cup bid delegation making apresentation in Abuja to FIFA executive committee member and ManchesterUnited fan Amos Adamu, was asked to provide his own commentary on thelast two minutes of the 1999 Champions League final victory over BayernMunich, when both Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored.Cole, who had been substituted in the game, mentioned United'snever-say-die spirit but also singled out Sheringham for praise, sayinghis reading of the game was very special, particularly his intuitive movement in the penalty area that could not be coached. BBC Sport have taken a gamble in the appointment of the Daily Telegraph's David Bond as their new sports editor in succession to Mihir Bose. Telegraph sports editor Bond is an outstanding print journalist with plenty of top contacts but has no real TV broadcasting experience. This proved the undoing of Bose, who was replaced by Bond on the Telegraph when Mihir made his ill-fated move to the Beeb. The others on the short list were yet another Telegraph sports journalist, Jim White, The Times' Olympic correspondent Ashling O'Connor, BBC radio foreign correspondent Tim Franks, the BOA's Adam Parsons and BBC sports reporter James Pearce, the best sports broadcaster of the final six. There will be changes in football's corridors of power with the sudden departure from Sheffield United of 66-year-old director Terry Robinson, following alleged differences with chairman Kevin McCabe and club restructuring under new chief executive Trevor Birch.Powerbroker Robinson, who also needs a break from football for medical reasons, will lose his place on the FA's international committee, his chairmanship of the FA Cup committee, his seat on the Football League board and his chairmanship of the Professional Game Board. He has also recently relinquished the presidency of Hungarian club Ferencvaros, who are effectively owned by McCabe's company. The guests who paid £495 apiece to attend the gala dinner in London's Old Billingsgate hosted by Rio Ferdinand to raise money for his Live the Dream foundation were taken aback by the no-show of top-of-the-bill singer Robbie Williams. What surprised them more was that no other Manchester United players were there. The FA board this week imposed a general wage freeze for staff. Also under threat is the FA Council's three-day summer conference in Bristol a jamboree for the blazer wearers and their wives complete with after-dinner opera singers.Yet elsewhere the FA have splashed out £12m to move their HQ to Wembley, when an 11-year lease remains on their former Soho Square property. This will cost about £3m a year to serviceuntil new tenants can be found. And that looks unlikely with the area currently a building site due to work on London's Crossrail project.Ironically, England's 2018 World Cup bid team want a satellite central London base, so why not move into the vacant Soho Square site? After all, the FA's old furniture is still there, since they decided on a brand new fit-out at Wembley. On top of the new one-year contract for BBC Sports Personality of the Year Ryan Giggs, there is talk at Old Trafford of Giggs getting an unprecedented second testimonial at the end of next season, when he racks up 20 years in the United first team. Even Sir Bobby Charlton only got one benefit match, while Giggs's long-serving team-mates Gary Neville and Paul Scholes have never had a testimonial.