Paul Scholes ended his England career earlier than necessary after Sven-Goran Eriksson moved our man out of position, to accommodate for the inferior Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard.
Since then, Scholes has been repeatedly asked to return, the managers no longer taking him for granted, but he hasn’t fancied it. Whilst briefly tempted to change his mind when United’s former assistant, Steve McClaren, was asking, but hasn’t looked back since making his decision to stick to only playing for United.
“I did think about coming back when Steve McClaren was England manager, but I thought, ‘It’s just not for me’ – and I’ve not changed my mind,” said Scholes. “Not playing for England has given me a new lease of life with United and it’s certainly helping me at this stage of my career. It’s hard to really say what effect on me not playing international football has had, but I’d say it’s helped because there are fewer demands on my body, less travelling and fewer matches. It means you get a break from the hurly-burly of playing every week in The Premier League, so it must help. The Premier League is very tough and, even though I’m not playing internationals anymore, it would be hard for guys like myself and Ryan Giggs to be playing twice a week at this level. Playing international football again isn’t something I’d think about doing. I’m just enjoying my football with United and playing at this level for as long as the manager wants me.”
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Cue the United > England guys!
RED TILL DEAD you cant help but love that kid…
PS18 – Legend. United>England
United > England
Top man! I am not patriotic in any way and don’t give a fuck about England. I rarely watch them and the first thing I look for is that our players come through without injuries. I can see this becoming a more common thing in years to come whereby players will retire from internationals after they hit their peak. The media scrutiny on England players in particular, especially Utd players is laughable at times. They must wonder if it is worth the hassle.No wonder players pull out of friendlies due to non existent injuries. You have the ridiculous situation whereby Rooney gets sent off at Fulham for displaying passion, albeit I can see why the ref sent him off and then a few days later Rooney is expected to play for his country and contribute to lining the pockets of the same FA that rescinded the red card of a goalkeeper that can now play against us in our next league game. I may be a bolshy cunt but I think if I were Rooney I would have appealed the red card (forget the afters with the corner flag as that wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t been sent off),and rang up Mr Capello and said ‘If my red card stands then You can stick your World Cup qualifiers up your arse and play Darren Bent’. I would love to see what the spineless old farts at the FA would have done. I am sure Wayne would have been playing against Villa. It just seems strange to me that highly paid athletes like Premiership footballers who are tuned in to their club manager’s thoughts and expectations have to leave their families to go to play for a manager who they meet up with for a few times a year and then have to fall into a new role and very often end up looking at best ordinary, at worst shit. Fabio Capello apparently calls all his players by their surnames to keep them in their place. If my manager at work called me by my surname I would piss in his coffee. Scholesy would love to leave his family for a few days to be called ‘Scholes’ by a Tommy Cooper lookalike.Hopefully Rooney,Carrick, Rio will all follow suit in the future and then it will keep the anti-Utd media happy and also everyone else who hates us.If they don’t play for England they can’t be abused by the ‘STAND UP IF YOU HATE MAN U’ arseholes
legend
he gave an interview???!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Y8NsX-oGw
to n667
i know what your talkin about
scholes gave an interview before the barca game last season and i was in the pub listenin to it and my mate noticed he didnt really know what his voice sounds like,because he doesnt have mutv
for everything the republik of manchunia is and stands for
scholes is the god of all
a true united great and the best central midfielder in the country! end of!
I know he doesn’t talk much and he doesn’t do naff stuff like kissing TV cameras, but if he wasn’t so modest he could look forward to the day when he shows Gerrard his medals. What a player, what a man.
@smokebreaksteve tommy cooper lol good and funny read mate
UNITED > england
I really admire Scholes for retiring from international football when he did, we’re the Republik of Mancunia and the lad knows it.
We all agree United are better than ingurland!
LEGEND….best cm iv ever seen anyway
UNITED > england
UNITED > england
UNITED > england
UNITED > england
UNITED > england
UNITED > england
smokebreaksteve Said,
March 29th, 2009 @15:46
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Am I the only one who agrees with SBS that, if Rooney held the England national team to ransom, especially since he got his second yellow cheaply, he’d be playing aganst Villa?