Paul Scholes

[Rushton121]

throughout his career you very rarely heard him give tv interviews or appear in the papers, which is possibly why a fair few city fans (me included) had alot of time for him as a player.

Now he's retired you can't keep the fucker off the tv/ papers

 

[M18CTID]

I posted this in the main forum earlier - basically my take on it is that what Scholes did is every bit as bad, if not worse, than what Tevez did and he can count himself very lucky that he wasn't run out of the club by Ferguson. However, Scholes is ten times the bloke that Tevez ever will be and isn't a constant trouble causer (unlike Tevez) so that probably saved him from being booted out of United:

It certainly is an interesting story and while, like you, I've no intention of defending Tevez, it's one in the eye for the likes of Redknapp (and any mouthy reds) who say this would never happen at United. You could even argue that if the Scholes and Tevez incidents are taken in isolation, that what Scholes did was actually worse because he refused to even travel with the squad.

That said, Scholes is obviously far less of a twat than Tevez and wasn't causing trouble every other week but it also shows that United have also had their problems dealing with players taking the piss down the years despite what the media would have us believe. Speaking of which, I don't recall there being much of a media shit storm from pundits aplenty when this happened with Scholes despite it being reported at the time. Not that I'm shedding any tears over the lack of sympathy for Tevez of course.

 

[cantona01]

I posted this in the main forum earlier - basically my take on it is that what Scholes did is every bit as bad, if not worse, than what Tevez did and he can count himself very lucky that he wasn't run out of the club by Ferguson. However, Scholes is ten times the bloke that Tevez ever will be and isn't a constant trouble causer (unlike Tevez) so that probably saved him from being booted out of United:

It certainly is an interesting story and while, like you, I've no intention of defending Tevez, it's one in the eye for the likes of Redknapp (and any mouthy reds) who say this would never happen at United. You could even argue that if the Scholes and Tevez incidents are taken in isolation, that what Scholes did was actually worse because he refused to even travel with the squad.

That said, Scholes is obviously far less of a twat than Tevez and wasn't causing trouble every other week but it also shows that United have also had their problems dealing with players taking the piss down the years despite what the media would have us believe. Speaking of which, I don't recall there being much of a media shit storm from pundits aplenty when this happened with Scholes despite it being reported at the time. Not that I'm shedding any tears over the lack of sympathy for Tevez of course.

Im not going to defend what Scholes did, but you are wrong in saying that it is worse. Plenty of players have refused to be CONSIDERED for games, and I think that is the important part here.

Tevez let himself be picked for the team, and then refused to play - causing maximum disruption. His place on the bench could have gone to someone else, like Scholes' did. Also considering the games themselves Champions League V Reserve game - this is a lot more destructive