Paul Scholes is better than George Best !
Who says so ?
None other than Sir Bobby Charlton.
From an article in The Sun today....
"ALEX FERGUSON took real flak for the team he picked. A bunch of unknown kids in an important cup game.
No, we are not talking about Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final.
The date was September 21, 1994 when a certain Paul Scholes lined up alongside the likes of Gary Neville, Nicky Butt and David Beckham for his debut.
He would score twice as Manchester United won 2-1 at Port Vale in the Coca-Cola Cup second round.
Questions were asked in Parliament about Fergie belittling the competition with the team he picked. Soon, though, nobody argued with those four playing.
Fast forward 15 years and Scholes will make his 600th appearance for the Red Devils in tonight’s Prem game against Portsmouth at Old Trafford.
One of the greatest but most unassuming figures to play the game, the 34-year-old continues to turn it on.
There can be no higher praise than that coming from United legend Sir Bobby Charlton, who places Scholes as his all-time favourite player.
Sir Bobby said: “Many great players have worn the shirt of Manchester United. Players I worshipped, then lost with my youth in Munich.
“Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Ferguson era.
“And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he’ll find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce a decisive volley.
“When a game reaches a vital phase, these qualities seem to come out of his every pore. He’s always on the ball. He’s always looking to bring other people into the action and if he loses possession you think he must be ill.”
Boss Fergie said: “His contribution and his quality and some of the fantastic goals he has scored have been great.
“Even on Sunday in the FA Cup semi-final when he came on, his first touch of the ball was better than anybody else on the park had done for the whole previous hour.
“He has that wonderful velvet touch on the ball. Amid the mayhem that can happen in a game it is wonderful to see.
“To reach 600 games is fantastic, considering he has had three or four long injuries in that career. He has had two knee operations and his eye problem a couple of years ago. He has probably missed more than a year of football so that would have put him nearer 700.”
He is talented and significant in matches...but George Best is the Best and is better than him I believe..
i'm a manu fan myself, and watching scholes play is always a pleasure...but this is taking things a little too far...zidane was obviously the greatest midfielder of his generation, can we at least all agree on that? haha, probably not :S
Zinédine Zidane once described him as “undoubtedly the greatest midfielder of his generation” ..
that's nice and all, but better than Best? don't you think that's pushing it just a little bit?
and probably underrated by the public as he is not a publicity seeker.
Ah, if only he could tackle. You could run a pool on how long it will take him to get a yellow card in any match ;o)