Match Report

Tottenham Hotspur

Manchester United

Walker, Edinburgh, Howells, Nielsen, Ferdinand, Carr, Ginola, Vega, Iversen, Campbell, Clemence (Sinton, 75).

Attendance
35,995

Referee
P Jones

Schmeichel, Irwin, Johnsen, Pallister, Butt, Sheringham, Giggs, P. Neville, Cruyff, Keane, Scholes (Beckham, 66).

Subs not used: Calderwood, Scales, Fenn, Baardsen.

Subs not used: G. Neville, McClair, Poborsky, Van Der Gouw.

Booked: Vega, Edinburgh.

Booked: Scholes, Cruyff.

Goal Scorer: Butt 82, Vega 83 (og)

Teddy Sheringham punched the air with grim delight as his new Manchester United team-mates came to his rescue and flattened former club Tottenham with two goals in the last 10 minutes.

    The only sentiments on show for the England striker's return to White Hart Lane were jealousy and outright hatred, and how the boo-boys jeered and crowed when he missed a 60th minute penalty.
    That hostility was his price for accusing Spurs of lacking ambition to justify his move to the champions, and he found himself involved in a series of running feuds with former team-mates, grimacing as Swiss defender Ramon Vega took him out from behind in just four minutes.
    Rarely has a player been so determined to hit back at a former club and Sheringham was ushered away from an ugly confrontation with Allan Nielsen after he finally had the last laugh in the 81st minute.

    The Dane's sliding tackle took the sting off Sheringham's 30-yard shot, but deflected it on into the path of the unmarked Nicky Butt who drove the ball past Ian Walker as Spurs looked in vain for an offside flag.
    Less than two minutes later, it was all over as Vega, distracted by Ryan Giggs' vain leap, swung at substitute David Beckham's inswinging cross from the right and deflected it past Walker off his shin to make it 2-0.
    Sheringham's satisfaction could not have been more evident as he went toapplaud the United fans at the end, running a gauntlet of taunts from the fans, who once hailed every one of his 98 goals in 197 senior games for the Londoners.