Man Utd’s Fletcher: European players in awe of Scholes
Darren Fletcher says the modest ways of Manchester United teammate Paul Scholes have worked against him when individual awards are being handed out.
The Scotland midfielder reveals how some of Europe's greats are in awe of the United veteran.
He told United We Stand: "How Scholesy has never been nominated for European or World Player of the Year is beyond me.
"Scholesy is still a frightening player now, but when he was scoring 20-odd goals a year from midfield he was among the very best. He probably didn’t get those awards because he disappeared straight after training and didn’t do any interviews.
"Look at the foreign players after the European games – they all want to swap shirts with Giggs and Scholes.
"It was funny watching (Ivan) de la Pena before the Espanyol game at Old Trafford. He was in awe of Scholesy and looking up to him as if he was a god.
"He arranged for shirts to be swapped before the game. Scholesy seemed a bit embarrassed. Good players know great players and they respect them. I have to train with Scholesy every day so I know how good he is. I can’t get near him."
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Comments (6)
Zidane once lauded Scholes as one of the most complete midfielders he had ever seen (obviously he didn't see all the bad tackling and stupid cards :P), so enuff said. Scholes was magnificent
reddish and anonymous (the one that called fletch a coward) --
firstly anonymous you're full of shit.. you're the coward, anonymous even on a random forum... says it all really... lets see u go out and do half the shit .. bet u can't even clean his laces, forget the boots. *****..
reddish - do you understand football? do you understand what it does for the players when they play alongside giggs/scholes on the pitch? how much they learn? During the match and not just practice, of course. Dumb *****!
fle, dun start talking so much jus becos u score a few goals. to me, u are a coward
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