Although Scholes was my favourite player.His 90 yellow cards within the premier league were a bit more than just unlucky.Did he just have a devilish streak or was his tackling technique crap?
Paul Scholes had a technique, whether it was poor or not is debatable. Not many people tried to dribble round scholesy twice How many red cards has he gotten?
4 reds.Not sure how many are straight reds.i always got the feeling once he made one rash challange,another was not far away.
I always thought that, but with only 4 red cards it seems that once he got a yellow, he didn't commit many more fouls.
Two were for handball IIRC. One vs Fulham and one vs Zenit. Scholesy was always a player who seemed to want to be the complete midfielder - ball winning as well as creating. If he saw a chance to try and win the ball, he'd go for it regardless of whether he could win the tackle or not. I don't think he ever injured anyone tho, and 90 yellow cards over a 16 year career is hardly a record breaker. I think Vieira managed the same in about 9 years at Arsenal, and plenty of other players have a much higher cards per game ratio.
I'm pretty sure he means it. No player is stupid enough to keep on making tackles like that without realising they will be booked for it.
Didn't I read a couple of weeks ago that a couple of our players didn't even like being in opposing sides in training,because his tackling was just the same in practise games.
I read that too. I think it was Gary Neville who said he threw himself into tackles in just the same way in training. It does make a bit of a mockery of the people who claimed he meant to foul people so often. Look, here he is in training obviously trying to cripple Vidic please log in to view this image
He was a decent tackler, it was just his timing that was always off. He was fine when he stayed on his feet, but as soon as he tried to slide he was invariably later than a Virgin train. I'm guessing they tried to teach him, but he continued to dive in every time he saw the ball. Again, I think if there was any intent in his tackles he'd have spent more time working on them and trying to get better, rather than just going "oh, I know what would be a great idea, I'll get me a yellow card for making a terrible tackle in a completely safe area of the pitch". In fact, the number of red and yellow cards he got increased over the course of his career (around 20% of them were in his final two seasons when he was playing fewer games). Which implies his timing and tackling got worse as he got older.
It must have been intimidating playing us back in the day, much to your relief you avoid being cut in half by a Scholesy special only to have Keano going through you like a train!Great times.
