Eric Cantona, not good enough for Paul Scholes
MUCH consternation on Planet Football this week, and all caused by wee ginger Paul Scholes, the thinking footballer’s footballer.
Scholesy selected the best Man Utd XI he ever played with, a list that was published recently in United’s matchday programme for their Premier League fixture against Spurs. But - shock, horror! - there was no place in the starting line-up for either Cristiano Ronaldo or Wayne Rooney. Eric Cantona, regularly hailed as an Old Trafford legend on a par with the likes of George Best and Bobby Charlton, didn’t even make the subs’ bench!
Scholes’ team in full:
Peter Schmeichel; Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Denis Irwin; David Beckham, Roy Keane, Bryan Robson (capt), Ryan Giggs; Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Teddy Sheringham.
Subs: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez, Michael Carrick, Nicky Butt, Phil Neville, Jaap Stam.
Anorak can’t help that notice that Scholesy’s team consists almost exlusively of English speakers/Scholesy’s mates. Talk about jobs for the boys. Wes Brown ahead of Stam and Nemanja Vidic!? That is perhaps the biggest joke of all.
As for the omission of King Eric, that is mysterious. It has been suggested that Scholes never got on with Cantona, or simply that he didn’t rate him as highly as most people. Either way, I guess Scholes is better-placed to make that call than any of us.
Posted: 28th, January 2009 | In: Sports Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
February 21st, 2009 at 8:38 am
Slap me daft with a wet radicchio I feel all over nostalgic. Mo old fruitcake an echo of the past.
Percy is not a prick.
He’s just about as flawed as the rest of us.
I’ll give you, he’s in at least two minds about it.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:54 am
My thoughts on the man exactly, Percy is a prick.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:28 am
Thank you Anokak.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Calm down! Calm down! They’ll be turning down your sheets in the Bertie Mee ward again.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am
It’s called a nickname, Stilts. ‘King Eric’ was Cantona’s nickname (one of them, at least), widely acknowledged, and so using it is hardly unusual. Indeed, type ‘King Eric’ into Google and three of the top four results relate to Cantona.
Also, no, I don’t know Paul Scholes, but he is commonly known as Scholesy. I could tell you that when I write about football I often refer to players using the mindless nicknames they give to each other - it’s a not-so-subtle critique of the banal, anti-intellectual state of the game, but you don’t need to know that.
Being literal all the time must be a real drag. I bet you’re a whole lot of fun to be around.
Another thing: how does one piece on Man Utd define a whole site? Jesus, that is one-eyed nonsense, even by the standards of your reply.
Oh, and using the cliche ’sweet F.A’ (with ironic caps - oh, I see what you did there! Oh, how wonderful… yawn…) is a classic signifier of a man who may know a bit about football but can’t write for sh*t.
Hang on… yes, your abject blog confirms as much.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
“King” Eric….King of what exactly?…the French guillotined their royalty long ago…
Cantona was a fantastic player but even he would admit that he is more of a c*nt than a King.
I am also puzzled as to how Anorak has become just another piece of Manu manure…I thought Sorene is an Arsegooner not an Alexarselicker.
Last, who the f*ck is “Scholesy”, do you know Paul Scholes? Was he in your class at school? or neither….mayber you call him Scholesy because you are just another deluded soccer sycophant .
Whatever, you seem to know sweet F.A. about football and even less about Paul Scholes & Eric Cantona.