Paul Scholes retires!!!!

[Dodo]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
676 Man Utd appearances, 150 goals
66 England caps, 14 goals
Premier League winner: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
FA Cup: 1996, 1999, 2004
Champions League: 1999, 2008
League Cup: 2009, 2010
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007
18th highest scorer in Premier League history (102 goals)
4th most booked player in Premier League history (87 times)

[oloye]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
676 Man Utd appearances, 150 goals
66 England caps, 14 goals
Premier League winner: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
FA Cup: 1996, 1999, 2004
Champions League: 1999, 2008
League Cup: 2009, 2010
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007
18th highest scorer in Premier League history (102 goals)
4th most booked player in Premier League history (87 times)

Chai the stats of a legend.

[Skylolo]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007

Exactly what I was talking about, people need to ask themselves real questions and not believe everything they read just because Henry, Xavi or Zidane said so.

Scholes was a great player but a cut below the very best.

[wale1974]

[Dodo]

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[Dodo]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007

Exactly what I was talking about, people need to ask themselves real questions and not believe everything they read just because Henry, Xavi or Zidane said so.

Scholes was a great player but a cut below the very best.

you are a funny guy, i'd rather listen to the likes of Igwe, Xavi and Zidane than make what I may of stats, apparently from awards at the last world cup Diego Forlan is better than Messi

[Riche007]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
676 Man Utd appearances, 150 goals
66 England caps, 14 goals
Premier League winner: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
FA Cup: 1996, 1999, 2004
Champions League: 1999, 2008
League Cup: 2009, 2010
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007
18th highest scorer in Premier League history (102 goals)
4th most booked player in Premier League history (87 times)

Chai the stats of a legend.

Great Player. Paul, enjoy your retirement!

[Dodo]

Premier League 10 Seasons Awards

Team of the Decade

Position Domestic Overseas Overall
Goalkeeper David Seaman Peter Schmeichel Schmeichel
Defenders Gary Neville Dan Petrescu Neville
Tony Adams Jaap Stam Adams
Steve Bruce Marcel Desailly Desailly
Stuart Pearce Denis Irwin Irwin
Midfielders David Beckham Freddy Ljungberg Beckham
Paul Ince Patrick Vieira Vieira
Paul Scholes Roy Keane Scholes
Ryan Giggs Robert Pires Giggs
Strikers Alan Shearer Thierry Henry Shearer
Michael Owen Eric Cantona Cantona

[YemiBrazil]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007

Exactly what I was talking about, people need to ask themselves real questions and not believe everything they read just because Henry, Xavi or Zidane said so.

Scholes was a great player but a cut below the very best.

The problem here is that some of you guys are always over-analyzing. Scholes' career spanned different football generations and I can tell you that Paul Scholes was truly the very best at a point. You are having difficulties with the assertions of football greats like Henry, Xavi, Zidane because you are probably looking at his career in general factoring in his later years. Henry was at a point the very best striker you can think of in football but some people will argue with this based on his later years in Arsenal and his Barca years.

[The Notorious B!GGESTMAN]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007

Exactly what I was talking about, people need to ask themselves real questions and not believe everything they read just because Henry, Xavi or Zidane said so.

Scholes was a great player but a cut below the very best.

The problem here is that some of you guys are always over-analyzing. Scholes' career spanned different football generations and I can tell you that Paul Scholes was truly the very best at a point. You are having difficulties with the assertions of football greats like Henry, Xavi, Zidane because you are probably looking at his career in general factoring in his later years. Henry was at a point the very best striker you can think of in football but some people will argue with this based on his later years in Arsenal and his Barca years.

Case in point Henry's career with Barca. He was sos so in his 1st season (one can forgive him because it was his 1st season in Spain) but in his 2nd season he scored 19 league goals alone (i put it to you that he would have scored over 20 had he not been injured for the final weeks). Yet everyone just remembers his last season with the catalans (admittedly it was horrendous).

[maceo4]

The guy was a gem, no one in the current English setup comes close, he will be missed!

[YUJAM]

He was a very good player in his prime. Thanks for the memories Scholesy

[oloye]

Great player. In his early years a goal scoring midfielder with a fearsome shot, in the latter years a playmaker in CM. Throughout his passing has always been impecible. As usual England didn't make the most out of his talents, shamelessly dumping him on the left wing for Euro 2004.

It was that Swedish fraud called Sven that kept playing him on the left as a winger(can you imagine) while playing carpenters and bricklayers as midfielders for England. He was the one that sent Scholesy on early international retirement.

[txj]

A very good ENGLISH player, but still English, with all its limitations. His career history cannot be written beyond the English channel, whatever accolades the British press/pundits might award him. He could'nt hold a candle on any of his main contemporaries on the continent or in south america...

Great player. In his early years a goal scoring midfielder with a fearsome shot, in the latter years a playmaker in CM. Throughout his passing has always been impecible. As usual England didn't make the most out of his talents, shamelessly dumping him on the left wing for Euro 2004.

It was that Swedish fraud called Sven that kept playing him on the left as a winger(can you imagine) while playing carpenters and bricklayers as midfielders for England. He was the one that sent Scholesy on early international retirement.

[oloye]

A very good ENGLISH player, but still English, with all its limitations. His career history cannot be written beyond the English channel, whatever accolades the British press/pundits might award him. He could'nt hold a candle on any of his main contemporaries on the continent or in south america...

Great player. In his early years a goal scoring midfielder with a fearsome shot, in the latter years a playmaker in CM. Throughout his passing has always been impecible. As usual England didn't make the most out of his talents, shamelessly dumping him on the left wing for Euro 2004.

It was that Swedish fraud called Sven that kept playing him on the left as a winger(can you imagine) while playing carpenters and bricklayers as midfielders for England. He was the one that sent Scholesy on early international retirement.

Candle ko lantern ni. I guess your opinion counts more than the likes of Xavi and Zidane but then this is txj we are talking about Mr I Know More Than Everyone.

[omey2k4]

TXJ fok your opinion!!!And i mean that

[omey2k4]

A very good ENGLISH player, but still English, with all its limitations. His career history cannot be written beyond the English channel, whatever accolades the British press/pundits might award him. He could'nt hold a candle on any of his main contemporaries on the continent or in south america...

Great player. In his early years a goal scoring midfielder with a fearsome shot, in the latter years a playmaker in CM. Throughout his passing has always been impecible. As usual England didn't make the most out of his talents, shamelessly dumping him on the left wing for Euro 2004.

It was that Swedish fraud called Sven that kept playing him on the left as a winger(can you imagine) while playing carpenters and bricklayers as midfielders for England. He was the one that sent Scholesy on early international retirement.

Candle ko lantern ni. I guess your opinion counts more than the likes of Xavi and Zidane but then this is txj we are talking about Mr I Know More Than Everyone.

The same guy(TXJ) that claimed mIKEL WAS BETETR THAN mESSI ABI?

[Comrade Machel]

Good riddance, i wont miss that ginger haired thug one bit

[txj]

Why do u like to make things up? I never joined the Messi-Mikel debate...

A very good ENGLISH player, but still English, with all its limitations. His career history cannot be written beyond the English channel, whatever accolades the British press/pundits might award him. He could'nt hold a candle on any of his main contemporaries on the continent or in south america...

Great player. In his early years a goal scoring midfielder with a fearsome shot, in the latter years a playmaker in CM. Throughout his passing has always been impecible. As usual England didn't make the most out of his talents, shamelessly dumping him on the left wing for Euro 2004.

It was that Swedish fraud called Sven that kept playing him on the left as a winger(can you imagine) while playing carpenters and bricklayers as midfielders for England. He was the one that sent Scholesy on early international retirement.

Candle ko lantern ni. I guess your opinion counts more than the likes of Xavi and Zidane but then this is txj we are talking about Mr I Know More Than Everyone.

The same guy(TXJ) that claimed mIKEL WAS BETETR THAN mESSI ABI?

[txj]

Xavi's opinion came at a time that Barca needed to be politically correct, same for Zidane.

Name me one major non-english pundit who holds Scholes with the same reverence as the english do?

Also name me one of his major contemporaries from the continent or s. america that he was better than...

A very good ENGLISH player, but still English, with all its limitations. His career history cannot be written beyond the English channel, whatever accolades the British press/pundits might award him. He could'nt hold a candle on any of his main contemporaries on the continent or in south america...

Great player. In his early years a goal scoring midfielder with a fearsome shot, in the latter years a playmaker in CM. Throughout his passing has always been impecible. As usual England didn't make the most out of his talents, shamelessly dumping him on the left wing for Euro 2004.

It was that Swedish fraud called Sven that kept playing him on the left as a winger(can you imagine) while playing carpenters and bricklayers as midfielders for England. He was the one that sent Scholesy on early international retirement.

Candle ko lantern ni. I guess your opinion counts more than the likes of Xavi and Zidane but then this is txj we are talking about Mr I Know More Than Everyone.

[Cally]

Phenomenal player! Always kept it simple...the way that I like the game played.

I doff my hat...

[oloye]

I don't need to go looking for any pundit when i have eyes to see. He played the game at the highest level and had laurels to show for it, i don't need to compare him to anyone. When you play for Man U for that long and in europe where the action is , then you dont need some South American pundit to give you props. It is simple he does not ply his trade there. It is when people are trying to be mischievious that they start making these ridiculous statement. Like i said politcally correct or not, Xavi, Zidane gave their tributes , not that it matters anyways, look at the stats it is the stuff legend and great players are made up off. Like Omey said seriously your opinion even on CE does not count as far as Scholesy is concerned.

Xavi's opinion came at a time that Barca needed to be politically correct, same for Zidane.

Name me one major non-english pundit who holds Scholes with the same reverence as the english do?

Also name me one of his major contemporaries from the continent or s. america that he was better than...

A very good ENGLISH player, but still English, with all its limitations. His career history cannot be written beyond the English channel, whatever accolades the British press/pundits might award him. He could'nt hold a candle on any of his main contemporaries on the continent or in south america...

Great player. In his early years a goal scoring midfielder with a fearsome shot, in the latter years a playmaker in CM. Throughout his passing has always been impecible. As usual England didn't make the most out of his talents, shamelessly dumping him on the left wing for Euro 2004.

It was that Swedish fraud called Sven that kept playing him on the left as a winger(can you imagine) while playing carpenters and bricklayers as midfielders for England. He was the one that sent Scholesy on early international retirement.

Candle ko lantern ni. I guess your opinion counts more than the likes of Xavi and Zidane but then this is txj we are talking about Mr I Know More Than Everyone.

[Skylolo]

PAUL SCHOLES CAREER STATISTICS:
PFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2007

Exactly what I was talking about, people need to ask themselves real questions and not believe everything they read just because Henry, Xavi or Zidane said so.

Scholes was a great player but a cut below the very best.

The problem here is that some of you guys are always over-analyzing. Scholes' career spanned different football generations and I can tell you that Paul Scholes was truly the very best at a point. You are having difficulties with the assertions of football greats like Henry, Xavi, Zidane because you are probably looking at his career in general factoring in his later years. Henry was at a point the very best striker you can think of in football but some people will argue with this based on his later years in Arsenal and his Barca years.

Most players career spanned over many football generations, when you are one of the greatest of your generation it is hard to argue against. It is hard to argue for example that the Brazilian Ronaldo is not of of the best strikers we have ever seen or that Rivaldo and Zidane were great Attacking midfielders in their time, or that Paolo Maldini was one of the greatest left backs if not the greatest. They proved it at Club level and at Intl level over many years...

Paul Scholes at any point in his career was never the best midfield player in the World or of his generation it is simply not true, when you make this statement you disrespect too many excellent midfield players who were better than him - you people should not confuse his longevity with him being the best.

Henry is not the best striker in the World today but at a point was the most devastating forward in the game, the statistics and recognition he got in the WFOY/EPOY rankings show this; also many consider him the best ever to play in the EPL. Scholes was a great player but you lot should not get carried away...