Lamps, Scholesy or Timmy Cahill?

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Scholes hands down WHAT A PLAYER he has been and has played his football like the other top player at Manure Giggs proper footballers and not celebs

[Parm]

Scholes hands down WHAT A PLAYER he has been and has played his football like the other top player at Manure Giggs proper footballers and not celebs

2 players that even today if they were available would love us to snap up.

[badpiggy]

if i could've picked one player ffrom scum over last 10 years to kidnap, brainwash and makeover as a new signing it would've been the boy scholesy. impossible not to like him regardless of the team he plays for.

[zimbo]

Good player and that, but he can be one dirty sod and has never been averse to the odd outrageous dive.
Only it never gets a mention 'cos it's Paul Scholes. And all commentators are contractually obliged to point out what a model professional he is, and how you'll never get an interview with him as he's far too busy helping blind people across the road or single-handedly constructing an orphanage in Moss Side out of nothing more than his own ginger tears.

He loves his family too apparently.

[simey85]

have to agree scholes is a top player and does'nt get the plaudits that he should do coz rooney and ronaldo are being hyped up. but when the going gets tough for utd he is usually the one to step up to the plate

[Shaggy]

Good player and that, but he can be one dirty sod and has never been averse to the odd outrageous dive.
Only it never gets a mention 'cos it's Paul Scholes. And all commentators are contractually obliged to point out what a model professional he is, and how you'll never get an interview with him as he's far too busy helping blind people across the road or single-handedly constructing an orphanage in Moss Side out of nothing more than his own ginger tears.

He loves his family too apparently.

I know, what a gent! What a credit to the game!

I do like Scholes. Like B&P said above, it’s impossible not to like him despite the team he plays for, but what really irks me about him is this…

As Zimbo said, he’s a dirty *******. Always has been. Yet the commentators like to remind us in EVERY SINGLE GAME “that’s one part of his game he never mastered, tackling….oh ho ho ho bless the little blighter, he can’t time a tackle!”

No, he’s a dirty, nasty little cnut. Roy Keane said the same thing.

Great player though, and it is mildly refreshing in this day and age to see a footballer who cares little for the celebrity side of things.

[Red Chilli]

I don't like him because he plays for the scum and therefore I will never give him any credit. Filth!

[Shaggy]

I don't like him because he plays for the scum and therefore I will never give him any credit. Filth!

I don’t actively like him. I admire and respect him, though, as a footballer. He’s the only United player IN HISTORY that I could say that about. The only one.

[Red_Polo]

I voted Cahill because I felt like being a thick **** for a minute.

[Red Chilli]

Ok, I thought you'd said it was impossible not to like him

[Shaggy]

Ok, I thought you'd said it was impossible not to like him

You know what I mean.

[zimbo]

I know, what a gent! What a credit to the game!

I do like Scholes. Like B&P said above, it’s impossible not to like him despite the team he plays for, but what really irks me about him is this…

As Zimbo said, he’s a dirty *******. Always has been. Yet the commentators like to remind us in EVERY SINGLE GAME “that’s one part of his game he never mastered, tackling….oh ho ho ho bless the little blighter, he can’t time a tackle!”

No, he’s a dirty, nasty little cnut. Roy Keane said the same thing.

Great player though, and it is mildly refreshing in this day and age to see a footballer who cares little for the celebrity side of things.

It's all part of Sky's (and the Beeb too, to be fair) selective myopia when it comes to any high-profile English player. See how Joe Cole's frankly embarassing catalogue of dives (throw arms in air, squeal in anguish, roll around for a bit, then sit facing referee with arms in crucifix position and pleading yet mortally offended look on face) is rarely if ever commented on. Yet when it comes to Diouf or Drogba.....

I'm just fed up of the ongoing beatification of Saint Paul. I'd imagine it'd get on his tits a bit too, if he was honest. Which, playing for that shower, he won't be. Ever.

[Speedy]

And wha about Gerrard then zimbo?

Is our own Stevie G not similar?

[Red Chilli]

No!

He's a paragon of virtue

[zimbo]

And wha about Gerrard then zimbo?

Is our own Stevie G not similar?

He's had his moments, there's no denying it. And he admits as much in his book, though doesn't appear too proud of it. Always seems to get picked up on by the pundits too, strangely enough (e.g. that England game before the World Cup).

However, I'd suggest that:
a) Scholes has got away with diving consistently, over a longer period, with barely a whisper from the 'experts'. And as Shaggy says, each career-threatening tackle he produces is laughed off as if he were a gauche 16 year old.
b) Apart from Deco I can think of no player other than Joe Cole who has made diving an intrinsic part of his game, a technique that he has added to his repertoire to deliberately (and sucessfully) cheat referees and opponents.
c) Gerrard plays for Liverpool. He doesn't play for United or Chelsea. Therefore anything he does is beyond reproach.