What Rui Costa retiring for me must be the same as Paul Scholes retiring for many Manchester United fans as a era is slowly coming to a close. As for me personally while I respected Scholes game and have even more respect for what the likes of Xavi and Zidane have said about him I never throught he should of been mentioned with the likes of those players. A great player yes, a superstar who won games on his own no.
I'll keep this short as to not throw dirt on Paul Scholes but it did amaze me how despite playing football for over 30 years he never quite did learn how to tackle and he was always good for one red card a year in a Manchester United lost but he was a rock for Manchester United. He bridged the gap between the Eric Cantona/David Beckham/Roy Keane era to the Rooney era something Arsenal should of done instead of shipping every key player off. It's because of players like Scholes and Giggs that Manchester United have keep the idenity Sir Alex Ferguson wants to see in his players. The never give up attitude, the swagger, the we are the best and you have to knock us off mentality. Credit for Scholes for leaving at just the right time. He could of played another year or two, maybe finished up his career overseas but he left at just the right with people thinking he still have something left in the tank.
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