Paul Scholes got sent off in yesterday’s defeat to Zenit St Petersburg for a second bookable offence. Just before the whistle sounded to signal the end of the first half, Scholes got booked for one of his typical late challenges, no bother.
However, with time running out, Scholes angled the ball perfectly in to the back of the net. Unfortunately, he used his hand intentionally to do so. What do you think?
Scholes is now set to miss the first game of our European campaign, where United fans will have to hope the likes of Michael Carrick and Owen Hargreaves, who now both are injured, will be able to feature.
“The sending off was unfortunate, it was an instinctive thing,” said Ferguson. “But he had already been booked which meant he had to go. I understand he now misses our first game in Europe which is even more unfortunate.”
Personally, I don’t think it comes as instinct for footballers to put the ball in the back of their net with their hand, I’m not going to come down too harshly on Scholesy.
“Can Manchester United score? They always score,” are words Clive Tyldesley is famed for. Then there’s “Solskjaaaaaaaaer! And Manchester United have reached the promised land!”
He is seen by many as a Manchester United supporter, yet he laid in to Paul last night. He even went as far as suggesting Scholes’ action was worse than Diego Maradona’s handball against England in the 1986 World Cup.
So, what do you make of Scholes’ handball?
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it was a stupid thing to do – not because we lost last night but because we will miss him in our opening game of the UCL. scholes has these moments but i refuse to speak harshly of a player who has given me so much pleasure over the past 12 years
Just frustration……..on to the trophies that really matter!
I am hopeful that we have an able replacement for the opening champions league fixture but I was actually more annoyed with the sending off for last night. It put paid to any last minute revival. European Super Cups are pretty much forgotten in the grand scheme of things but Fergie had said that he wanted us to win this and fielded a strong side. Even though they are a good side, I find it a little embarrassing for us to be beaten by Russians and I think that it strengthened the argument made by those who say that we need Berbatov and that we should pay £30M for him. I can’t blame Scholsey for us losing the game, but I suppose the incident just capped a disappointing performance all round from several players
It was just an act of frustration. We were outplayed and lacked a good final ball all night.
You just have to praise a brilliant inventive finish lol. Pure technique… You can’t be a genius if you play by the rules all the time and if you look at all the true greats of the game, they all had their flaws which is ironic because its those “flaws” that set them apart from the rest and leave them lasting forever in our memories.
This game is a glorified charity shield and is no bother to me.
Funny, definitely. I was watching it on a stream and the quality was bad so I thought it was a goal at first!
Amazing finish! That was worth losing him against Villareal AT HOME. We are in no danger of going out in the group stages because of it imo. No one can honestly say they haven’t had a moment like that. I loved the way JOS celebrated like it was legitimate
Scholes needs to work on the physical aspect of that move. Technically, it was brilliant – an arching “fister” that was buried in the far, top corner. That’s why he’s the GingerNinja.
He should start playing volleyball after he hangs up his boots
That was one of the best smashes I’ve seen in my life 
Pure class!!!
Jeez Ref fancy sending off a player for an ,ahem cough, accidental touch of the ball he was trying to punch the goalie and missed and caught the ball instead….. never mind that …. team was understrength as Berbatov should already have been in the team….come on Fergie stop piddling about sell some dross and get some eager beavers in.
He probably wouldnt have played the Villareal game anyway, because its sandwitched by Liverpool and Chelski games- both away. Funny though!
FUNNY AND SILLY YES…..BUT I WAS PISSED AT THE FLAMIN RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRES CLAPPING AWAY FURIOUSLY WHEN ZENIT WON…CLAPPING AWAY WHEN WE WENT TO GET THE LOSERS MEDALS…AND THAT FUCKIN ROMAN ABRAM BASTARD WITH A SMILE AS WIDE AS TERRY’S PANTS…
We SHOULD HAVE had them…but we were lack lustre..defensively sloppy, midfiled lacked clas and penetration and strike force was flat too.
Tevez though was AWESOME!!!!!! If we had 1 or 2 more play like him last night, we would have won.
Deffo need to buy berba or someone
i laughed out loud
I can’t believe that some of you are laughing about this. That was disgraceful. I’m shocked and hurt that such a blatant disregard for fair play came from a player wearing a Manchester United shirt. I don’t care how frustrated you get, you have to show composure and professionalism- especially, if you are a veteran player and a team leader. Embarrassing end to a truly embarrassing game.
Who knows what would have happened if that ball had been left alone? We certainly could have used an extra man going forward in the last 6 minutes. Shame Scholesy. Shame.
It was probably out of frustration. Scholes is the kind of player that gets frustrated and does something stupid like this or one of his many late tackles. I still love the guy.
And, it was a great goal!
It was underhanded cheating in the same vein as diving for a penalty.
haha @ Denton D.
I personally could never being angry or disappointed in Scholes, no matter what he does.
It was a great goal. Not a sly Adebayor type tap-in, but a fully stretched power slap from relatively far out. Nice work!
Honestly, losing a trophy apart, i don’t see what was really sooo funny about it, he scored a handball and if the ref didn’t see it, i doubt anyone would have told him and we’d have probably gone on to win the game, i really don’t see whats sooo funny about an act many people condemn Maradonna for, the only difference is he got away with his. Scholes or not, it was disappointing that he would EVEN think of doing that, it was clearly intentional and not a reflex thing.
OTRed, it was hilarious. The consequences not so, but the way he slapped it in from distance was amusing to say the least.
Maybe because I was in shock at the time or I was so bemused by our performance in the game that it was easy to mistake Scholes stupidity for a light moment.
What he did summed up the way United looked, like they didn’t really care. Now, THAT isn’t funny!
Can’t help but laugh, I found it incredibly funny.
Shame he misses the CL game though.
the funniest hand ball that has ever been seen in world football. in terms of an entertaining moment, it was right up there!!!
It was a great spike to be quite honest, I’m not sure why it’s causing such a fuss. Scholes rose up in the air, and drove the ball down in a swift and fluid motion. Goalkeeper tried to block, but Scholesy was too powerful for him. A big fuck-in-do about nothing if you ask me.
it was a great finish right in the top corner and had me laughing for ages, was a much better finish than Maradona’s due to the pure technique in the slap