Steven Gerrard: GOT Retrospective

[tim gabbott]

Scholes couldn't tackle his dinner

 

[tim gabbott]

Multi ???what

 

[bizzaro]

Scholes couldn't tackle his dinner

Gerrard couldn't play from the back.

 

[tim gabbott]

Still one great player ... Plus he can play any ware on the park

 

[bizzaro]

Still one great player ... Plus he can play any ware on the park

Except in front of Demba Ba mate.

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

Just posted this in the other thread, thinking it was this one, but whatever... I'll post again:

"People say he is a great player, but you have to define what a great player is. For me, it is a player who has a bottom level that means his worst performance is not noticed. If he is having a bad game, a teammate might feel Paul Scholes is not quite on his game, but a spectator wouldn't notice. Scholes, of all the players I have played with, has the highest bottom level. He has an eye for a pass, for what the play or the game needs at that precise moment, that I have never seen anyone else have. These days he doesn't get into the box too many times, which is where you can see his age, but he has developed tactically. He controls and distributes the play and the game better than anyone I have ever seen."

--Peter Schmeichel​

"There is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He’s almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play. You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career."

--Zinedine Zidane​

"Paul Scholes is a role model. For me – and I really mean this – he's the best central midfielder I've seen in the last 15, 20 years. I've spoken to Xabi Alonso about him. He's spectacular, he has it all: the last pass, goals, he's strong, he doesn't lose the ball, vision. If he'd been Spanish he might have been rated more highly. Players love him."

--Xavi​

"He did not get completely what he deserves as a player because he’s not a “media lion”. He’s not one who runs after the media to be in the papers. I respect that."

-- Arsene Wenger​

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Zidane and Xavi is pretty high praise. I am not going to include Pele quotes because he gets asked about every mofo on the planet and never says a bad word about them.

 

[PITA]

Come to think of it. Is there anything that Scholes hasn't won more of than Steven Gerrard?

Gerrard, to be fair (or is that unfair), has won more court cases when he has been quite obviously guilty as charged, m'lud (allegedly, of course).

 

[The Equaliser]

He couldn't shine a candle to Roy Keane.

 

[TheFinnFan]

He looked fed up after yesterdays game.

"Thank God I can now start another chapter in my life"

 

[Huyton Layne]

Remember that time he fell over?

 

[LAToffee]

Name names lad, I ain't going to let my hate cloud my judgement.

Keane, Scholes, Viera, are the ones I think of in Slippy G's era and I'd have him over those 3 all day long, he could do everything.

It hurts a bit, but I'm just telling it how I see it, and he did it in Redsh'te sides that were poor compared to the likes of Arse, Manure and Chelski.

He single handily won them a Champs league, and a few other trophies besides.

Don't agree. All of three of them were streets ahead of Gerrard.

 

[bizzaro]

Gerrard, to be fair (or is that unfair), has won more court cases when he has been quite obviously guilty as charged, m'lud (allegedly, of course).

Gerrard didn't win them. His lawyer did.

 

[No8Bally]

 

[Chang Elephant]

im with quint here I'd have Gerard in the trenches with me over the other lot any day of the week.

Still one great player ... Plus he can play any ware on the park

That makes two in the net so far

 

[peteblue]

Remember that time he fell over?

No mate, what happened......