End of Paul Scholes at Man Utd

Scholes looked his age against QPR

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Manchester United's Paul Scholes (centre) celebrates his goal against Queens Park Rangers during their English Premier League match at Old Trafford. (REUTERS)

For 45 minutes against Queens Park Rangers (QPR) at Old Trafford Manchester United played like a team asking to be beaten.

At the heart of that team was a 38-year old genius whose time has perhaps come.
Paul Scholes played a game that by his high standards, was terrible.
He slowed the game down, gave the ball away and tackled terribly.
He even gave up a chance to volley from just outside the ‘D’.
That Sir Alex Ferguson picked Scholes to play in what should have been a routine home game – despite having Tom Cleverley and Anderson available – speaks of the midfield crisis United still have.
Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher are now up and running to do the job of the holding midfielder.
Surely it is time to let Scholes go, or at least, come off the bench.
The difference after Anderson came on was startling and sparkling.
He moved the ball fast and attacked with pace.
In 10 second half minutes, United had pulled into a 2-1 lead after going 1-0 down to a QPR goal inside the first 15 minutes of the second half.
The crucial third goal came from Anderson and Javier Hernandez.
"It is fantastic to play with Paul Scholes," Carrick had said of Scholes last week. "He is a genius. We all know what he can do. A lot of them you simply cannot teach. You can learn and take things from his game, as I have done since I have been here.
The fact is United have to learn to do without Scholes and Anderson showed perhaps, his time has indeed come.
 
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  • Adam bale 25 November 2012 17:51 3 3
    Paul Scholes is a genius with the ball and still far and away the best midfielder at utd! he has a couple of bad games (like everyone in football) so don't him off! at the start of the season he was brilliant, and it took scholes to come off the bench at halftime against Southampton and replace the woeful cleverly for utd to start playing and win the match 3-2! rvp even said scholes was man of the match after scoring a hat-trick! scholes turned last season around for utd as well!

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