Paul Scholes: Modern Football's Last Traditionalist

Day’s after our Champions League defeat at the hands of Barcelona,
we bid fair well to the greatest midfielder of his generation.

After 675 games and 19 major honours with United, Paul Scholes departs United as a legend: one of
the modern era’s few true gentleman. One of the few players in this day and age
of greed and over indulgence who famously walks in and out of contract
negotiations within minutes. Who keeps himself to himself, staying out of the limelight and rarely performing interviews. Who simply goes to work, plays the game, get's showered, goes home.

The modern game has today lost its rugged romantic, its traditionalist, its loyalist, its perfectionist – the essence, in mind and spirit, of Sir Matt Busby's Babes.

Manchester United

1994 - 2011