Could Teddy Sheringham and Paul Merson have played in the same Portsmouth XI?

Your latest challenge is to pick the best Pompey team possible from the players fielded by Harry Redknapp in his March 2002 to November 2004 reign.

If I might start with my own line-up, you have to have Shaka Hislop in goal (even if one or two old romantics may put dear old Yoshi in) and I, like many

who have already responded, am going for wing-backs, which allows you to get Steve Stone and Matt Taylor in the side.

From a plethora of fine centre-halves Harry had, I’m going for Dejan Stefanovic, Arjan De Zeeuw and Linvoy Primus – though in the unlikely event

Gianluca Festa is reading this, I can promise him he is unlucky to miss out.

In midfield I’m going for Paul Merson and Alexei Smertin – wouldn’t it have been fantastic to have seen their Blues careers overlap?

That leaves me the chance of three forwards, a must for me as I can’t leave out Teddy Sheringham, Yakubu or good old Toddy.

Would all three work together? It would probably have to involved Oh Teddy Teddy dropping deeper than Toddy and Yak. And you might find him and

Merse getting in each other’s way. But they’re intelligent enough to work it out!

I will deal with readers’ variations on this more fully next week but here a couple of offerings.

Russ (@crustybread23) goes for Hislop, Primus, De Zeeuw, Dejan, Taylor, Stone, Faye, Smertin, Merson, Yakubu, Sheringham.

And Rob Shiers says: Hislop, Primus, De Zeeuw, Stefanovic, Taylor, Stone, Merson, Sherwood, Berger, Todorov, Yakubu.

We have a lot of agreement so far, but are we missing anyone? Tweet @stevebone1/ email [email protected]

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