TWO World Cup winners and one of the highest-profile British strikers of recent years. When Tim Sherwood seeks his Uefa Pro Licence he’s likely to be in stellar company. Patrick Vieira, Marcel Desailly and Craig Bellamy are among those poised to join him on the course run by the Football Association of Wales. Sherwood would best avoid a game of “show your medals” with Vieira and Desailly. Yet this is a bloke who led the dressing room at Blackburn when Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton were among the big beasts inhabiting it: he has the self-regard not to be fazed by any classmate.
Indeed, if chutzpah guaranteed success in football management, Sherwood would be the appointment of the year. Of course it’s no guarantee, but