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Voted for Scholes as #1*, but I'd be surprised if Gerrard didn't come a comfortable second in a multiple vote scenario. Gerrard has been outstanding for Liverpool for a very long time.I reckon these poles should include some way of voting for 2nd because it'd be interesting to see who everyone would be second to most of the people that voted Scholes.
Still love the Scholes story when C.Ronaldo first turned up to training and was showing off his kick up tekker things to the group. Scholes walked over picked the ball off him pointed to a tree about 50 yards away and kicked the ball directly at it gesruring for Ronaldo to attempt the same, Ronaldo attempts and misses, Scholes shakes head and walks away.
I think Scholes adapted much better to his advancing years by becoming more of a deep midfielder who dictated the tempo, but could still spot the killer pass. Gerrard at his peak was probably better than Scholes - he could take the game by the scruff of the neck and drag his team across the line like he did in Istanbul and at Wembley against West Ham. Both slightly different players, but I think overall Scholes has been better throughout his career.
Lampard was a fantastic midfielder for Chelsea back when they were winning the league title, but, quite honestly, he isn't fit to lace Scholes' boots.
Thanks to the gormless skirt chasing Swede we had in charge of our national team, we wasted the best English midfielder since Paul Gascoigne.
The gormless Swede, who was more interested in shagging female colleagues at the FA, could not think past two other gorm lords for the centre midfield pairing and fair play to Scholes who saw through the shambles and rightly retired from the Brand Beckham circus with WAGS in tow that used to be England to prolong his club career.
I like the tekkers story Lineker told about Maradona. They played in a commemorative game together at Wembley, and Maradona came to out warm up. He juggled the ball up to the halfway line, then just booted it 50 yards into the air, waited for it come down, and booted up again. He never had to do more than walk to the next position, and he did it 12 times.
When Lineker got back to Barcelona, they all tried it and the best effort was three, and that was with a massive sprint at the end.
Scholes was one of the best players in the world. Should have been England's linchpin but we stuck him out wide because he was our best player.
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