The Official UEFA Euro 2012 Thread

[Peak]

It makes you wonder if they teach how to pass at English football academies. English players treat the ball like a hot potato.
It's not really surprising that English players don't dare playing abroad. Their technical inabilities would get exposed.

The last English players who were actually comfortable with the ball on their feet were Gascoigne and Waddle (they could actually dribble and they had no problem adapting abroad).

Oh please, those two have always been grossly overrated.
Scholes was woeful at the 2002 World Cup and Euros 2000 and 2004. He's always been anonymous in the biggest stages.
The acclaim that he's been getting lately smacks of nostalgia (very much like Giggs being selected EPL player of the year in 2009). It seems like when certain players get old, they suddenly get undeserved respect. Remember when old Giggs and Scholes were getting booed at Old Trafford in 2004 and 2005 for being past it?
Just because he doesn't give away possession like his teammates doesn't make him a genius.
Sorry, but he's not at Pirlo or Xavi level. Not even close.

Who said anything about Scholes being anywhere near Pirlo or Xavi? But I'd you're trying to tell me that an England squad would be better off without them in it than with them in then I don't know what to tell you.

 

[JLova]

my 2 teams got ousted this weekend





i'm happy for my nikka swagotelli but fuk them italian fakkits

Same

Them italian cats got swag though. Hate that squad but there's some swagged out dudes on there. Took them kicks like straight bosses.

 

[Roger Sterling]

Minus rat-faced Montolivo. But he's half-German anyway.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Who said anything about Scholes being anywhere near Pirlo or Xavi? But I'd you're trying to tell me that an England squad would be better off without them in it than with them in then I don't know what to tell you.

Xavi does

 

[Ohms Law]

Oh please, those two have always been grossly overrated.
Scholes was woeful at the 2002 World Cup and Euros 2000 and 2004. He's always been anonymous in the biggest stages.
The acclaim that he's been getting lately smacks of nostalgia (very much like Giggs being selected EPL player of the year in 2009). It seems like when certain players get old, they suddenly get undeserved respect. Remember when old Giggs and Scholes were getting booed at Old Trafford in 2004 and 2005 for being past it?
Just because he doesn't give away possession like his teammates doesn't make him a genius.
Sorry, but he's not at Pirlo or Xavi level. Not even close.

Had scholes not been cursed with being born english and coming up in english football he would have gone on to do greater things.
(On an international level. Hes already a legend thanks to utd)

Xavi does

and so does Zidane.

sterling made an apearance.
Should be thanking milan for that bit of charity with pirlo this year.

 

[superunknown23]

Honestly mate that was Sven's fault. He was very good at WC '98 and Euro 2000. He scored all but 1 of his England goals before 2002, that's no coincidence.

He's a class player.

He was anonymous in 1998. Ince, Le Saux and Beckham had a better tournament that him. Euro 2000 was a total embarrassment for the entire team. His England career was amazingly short and unproductive.
Great players find a way to shine, no matter where they are deployed.
English fans have been blaming their coaches for far too long. That excuse doesn't fly after a while.

 

[mastermind]

 

[RTF]

TBF Scholes is not too far away from that bracket at all. He played most of his career as a box-to-box type but in his later years he destroyed most CL teams with his passing game.

3 CL finals (1 win). 4 really when he played as box to box type. Didn't Man U 4-Peat the league during that period?

Nah give Scholes his props. If he's not on that level, he's not far.

 

[superunknown23]

Do you think Wilshere will ever get there?

 

[RTF]

He done passed 90% of the PL to death this season when he came back too. Nah Scholes is a top, top player.

 

[Roger Sterling]

sterling made an apearance.
Should be thanking milan for that bit of charity with pirlo this year.

I was actually against signing Pirlo, even on a free, lol.

Thought he was finished after his last campaign with Milan.

More than happy to be wrong about it though.

I bet Allegri isn't though! No pun.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

"I tell anyone who asks me – Scholes is the best English player." [10]
Laurent Blanc, former teammate of Scholes and captain of France's 1998 World Cup winning squad

"Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team – that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. An all-round midfielder who possesses quality and character in abundance." [16]
Marcello Lippi,

"My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder. Scholes is undoubtedly the greatest midfielder of his generation." [15]
Zinedine Zidane

“Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes – he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would have loved to have played alongside him.” [36]
Pep Guardiola

“At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn’t want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.” [43]
Emmanuel Petit

fukk WHATEVER you are saying. The people have spoken.

 

[superunknown23]

He done passed 90% of the PL to death this season when he came back too. Nah Scholes is a top, top player.

he faded badly in the last couple months of the EPL.
By far the worst player on the pitch in the key game at City. Seeing him battling with Yaya Toure was almost painful to watch.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

"I tell anyone who asks me – Scholes is the best English player." [10]
Laurent Blanc, former teammate of Scholes and captain of France's 1998 World Cup winning squad

"Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team – that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. An all-round midfielder who possesses quality and character in abundance." [16]
Marcello Lippi,

"My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder. Scholes is undoubtedly the greatest midfielder of his generation." [15]
Zinedine Zidane

“Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes – he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would have loved to have played alongside him.” [36]
Pep Guardiola

“At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn’t want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.” [43]
Emmanuel Petit

fukk WHATEVER you are saying. The people have spoken.

How you gunna forget

Edgar Davids

'I'm not the best, Paul Scholes is. Every one of us (midfielders) is just trying to become as good as him.'

&

Socrates

I love to watch Scholes, to see him pass, the boy with the red hair and the red shirt. Good enough for Brazil

 

[Scottie Drippin]

There's millions breh, we'd be here all day. Like Messi saying that they studied Scholes game footage at La Maisa so much he was like a teacher there, or Ronaldinho saying he wished he passed like him etc etc etc. Paul Scholes >