Comments on: Scholes: I Didn’t Enjoy Playing For England So Why Would I Go Back?

By: suhayl

suhayl — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:25:51 +0000

scholes = genius

guy doesnt have pace..guy doesnt have power or build. BUT ITS ALL IN THE HEAD…TECHNICALLY THE MOST GIFTED PLAYER AND THINKER OF TIME AND SPACE YOU CAN GET. 35?????? HE CAN PLAY TO 45

By: dickson

dickson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:38:39 +0000

England simply needs to use United as the spine of the team. This may sound arrogant but having Rio marshall the back, Hargreaves n Carrick in the middle and Rooney up front would see them finally performing. You can throw in stevie g, cole, downing and whoever in there and it shall be good!

By: ellie

ellie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:40:42 +0000

sometimes u wish all footballers would be humble like Scholes and Giggs, players who hate limelight and enjoyed the football field and not so much the money and fame.
England’s best ever showing for me in a championship was (2002) when they knocked ARGENTINA out of the world cup with Scholes, Butt, heargreaves and Beckham (all Man Utd. Lol) controlled the midfield. England didn’t win the cup but it was the best i had ever seen the team moved the ball around and played solid, good football. There was no Lamps or Gerrard there at the time. i believe that gerrard is a top midfielder but for me he his not the best when u want to bring stability to your team. As for Lamps, his best years with chelsea was with Mourinho who had him on the left in a Diamond formation. So lamps has never been a proven, quality midfielder who can control or stabilize a game like Scholes. SO GUESS WHAT, ENGLAND MADE THE MISTAKE SO SCHOLES IS MAKING THEM PAY.

By: 7Bestie7

7Bestie7 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:56:32 +0000

Towards the end he was used on the left, not because England needed a two-footed attacking player on the left, not because we’d changed our formation and he was the logical choice for the position and definitely not because it was were he liked to played. The reason Scholes was booted out on the left was because of Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard.

France did it with Zidane. But the thing with Zizou is that in the end Real Madrid was doing it with him too. Scholes has never been a left-sided player for us, not outside of a random game or two during the Veron era. All you needed with Scholes in his prime was someone to tackle and then give him the ball. The arrogance of England even messed that up.

By: S. Ahmed

S. Ahmed — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:17:22 +0000

Scholes was not peforming well for England, thus SGE thought Lampard and Gerard would be the midfield partnership to sustain englands midfield.

Alas, if you note that many of the games he didnt play too well in internationally was precisely because he was nopt utilised properly!

I mean, if you buy one of the best 50 icnh plasma screen tvs for tv for 10,000 pounds, its pretty stupid to expect a decent picture with a tin foil aerial!

Poor analogy aside, Paul Scholes is now gladly being recognised for the accomplished footballer he was yet sadly was not given the opportunities to show his worth for ENgland.

Much as i would like to see him played properly now I and othe Utd fans can bask in hopefully this and another seasons worth of the most accurate passer of the ball (84 percent completion rate last season!)
and scorchers when they matter (Barca CL Semi-final! – Though cringe when I see that chance against AC at OT in 2005!)

There loss is rightly our gain.

By: Mic

Mic — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:56:36 +0000

I love the bloke but he just wasn’t treated right for England but when he was you could see how good he was, i’m one of the Lampard bashers, he cannot play for England and come to think of it, Scholes was wasted for that fat waste of space, man, I hate the bloke even more, if there’s one person to blame, forget the manager or the inept FA, it’s the Fatty, the England shirt to him is what Cryptonite(sp) is to Superman!