His cameo against us in the FA cup sums up how I see him. Made two ridiculous tackles for no reason at all.

Still genius midfielder.

Good news.
Another one gone.
Now if Giggs and Rio would announce the same the PL would be a happier place.

Biggus wrote:

otfgoon wrote:

Probably the one United player that I've never really hated. Top class player.

Eh? first Barca and now a whole bloody thread for this little fucking ginger troll.......
The world is gone mad.

Yeah well, if all football discussion outside Arsenal was limited to "they're cunts" it would get pretty boring pretty quick.

The world of football is a better place for having rid of this fouling, despicable, scummy ginger cunt

World class, genius midfielder for over a decade. Never over rated.

Great player but a massive cunt who was too often reckless in the challenge. Surely, that has to be enough about a Manure player?

I reckon he'd be rated as highly as someone like Xavi is if he'd played in a team that was less about high tempo, direct football than Utd have been over the years. I honestly dont think he lacked anything on the footballing, technical side, although his mediocre natural athleticism caught him out occasionally.

Paul Scholes is a tosser. One redeeming feature is his penalty from 2005, otherwise he was a filthy prick.

I know you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead / retired, but from one belligerent ginge to another - Fuck off you cunt, I hope you gamble your money away.

He was a horrible cunt but a brilliant footballer. Probably the worst tackler of all time though. He couldn't get the hang of it. Joey Barton has the same problem with reading. It's just not his thing.

He was one dirty bastard who covered up his dirtiness under the guise of "bad tackling technique". And did fuck all in Europe. Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, et al are miles ahead in that regard. The overrating comes from the fact that he's the most un-traditional English midfielder since Charlton.

Mind you, he was the only United player I actually feared when Arsenal played them in the late 90s and early 2000s. Vieira struggled to cope with him more than he did Keane imo

otfgoon wrote:

Biggus wrote:

Eh? first Barca and now a whole bloody thread for this little fucking ginger troll.......
The world is gone mad.

Yeah well, if all football discussion outside Arsenal was limited to "they're cunts" it would get pretty boring pretty quick.

No not really, but Scholes was.

The fucking ginger Xavi! whats next? Joey Barton: the Merseyside Messi.

lol at the Merseyside Messi.
it will be good to see the back of all these Manchester United pensioners. Maybe they can take the team's winning mentality with them to the retirement home.

Gazza M wrote:

And did fuck all in Europe.

How'd you come to that conclusion?

Ricky1985 wrote:

I don't hate Scholes, so this isn't me being a biased Arsenal fan - he was a very good player, amongst the best in the world in his pomp, but nowhere near as good as those quotes would have you believe. Nowhere close.

You could find a collection of quotes saying similar things about Fabregas, not to the same degree, but not a million miles off, and he's only just turned 24. A collection of qotes about Xavi or Iniesta would probably top Scholes' praise. I think it must just be the type of player that coaches/other players wish they could be.

I agree. Players and coaches say these things about players in top form too and for alot of his 20s Scholes would blow hot and cold in a fairly extreme way.

A million punds? Seriously?

I think most of thos bids are fake.

Is that something you would do to game the system? Put in a legitimate bid you can afford, and then put in a bunch of extravagant fake bids to dissuade rival bidders? Interesting approach

Tim wrote:

Gazza M wrote:

And did fuck all in Europe.

How'd you come to that conclusion?

Compared to the players who people rate him against (Zidane, Xavi, Pirlo), he was not a dominant force in the CL. He was always a supporting part in a large ensemble, and his teammates - the likes of Keane and C Ronaldo - were often more integral to United in Europe. And he did nothing on the international stage, though thats not entirely his fault. No doubting his quality domestically.

Personally, I never really noticed any great discrepency in his domestic and Champions league performances.

And internationally he was comfortably England's best player for his first 40 odd caps until he got foisted out on the left by Sven.