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Terry Christian says Paul Scholes is a "humble forelock tugging peasant".
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Do you think he is right?
Terry made this sneering claim on the Left-wing Ch5 show The Wright stuff - when defending Kevin Pietersen? Class warrior Terry prefers such "mavericks" to the more humble types - those that would perhaps be considered better role models.
What do you think?
Terry made this sneering claim on the Left-wing Ch5 show The Wright stuff - when defending Kevin Pietersen? Class warrior Terry prefers such "mavericks" to the more humble types - those that would perhaps be considered better role models.
What do you think?
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No, United.
No. Man U, funnily enough.
C lister trying to be controversial to up his profile.
If he hadn't said that would anybody be talking about him?
Using gratuitously insulting terms like that, about a player who has given so many years of first class service to a top flight club, just makes him sound like a jealous, resentful knobhead IMO.
Terry Christian has always been a bit of a knobhead to be fair.
And yet Terry is a massive Man U fan.
To be fair Scholes is an oddly quiet man and keeps his head down. It would be interesting to know if there was anything traumatic in his childhood.
To be honest, I think its too easy to look too hard into things like that. You could probably say the same about Gareth Bale or Alan Shearer.
Terry Christian, on the other hand, is a no-talent prannet. I remember him on Fantasy Football League about 20 years ago with a clipboard reading off facts about Man U and saying he knows Man C fans who hate Man U more than liking Man C. Andd all on an irreverant comedy show!
Christian? Made a career of being an annoying little talentless git.
I don't see it as odd that he's quiet. He's just a shy lad who wanted to play football for a career and wasn't interested in any of the associated fame that comes if you're successful.
Not sure why being quiet suggests a traumatic childhood.
It's more than being a bit quiet - he's more strangely withdrawn.
I hate people like that - get some confidence and some swagger you're very good at something and you're in a position millions would kill to be in. Enjoy it a little
Edit so yeah I agree with him
I think he was quite confident doing his job.
So what if he's quiet. He might be the life and soul of the party around his friends but he just doesn't choose to throw his money and his family at the papers. I have more respect for someone like him than I'll ever have for the likes of Balotelli.
Footballers shouldn't have to buy into the celebrity side, if they do, fair enough, but if they don't, that's their choice and it should be respected. Humility, which Scholes has in spaces, is one of the best traits a person can ever have in my opinion. It's up there with kindness. You can be the richest man/woman in the world and be an A List celebrity but if you have an inflated ego, I have no time for you.
What an odd thing to say about one of your own club's greatest ever players. Christian isn't much of a supporter.
Funnily enough, I was thinking about Christian when Tony Wilson's name came up in the British Cool thread. For 20-odd years, Wilson was the nation's 'professional media Mancunian', representing Manchester, bantering with Scousers, generally putting the image of the city over to the rest of the region and the country... which he did with charm and good nature.
Now the 'mantle' has passed to Terry Christian, who idolised Wilson and wanted to be just like him - yet he has become instead an utterly charmless buffoon and seemingly in his old age a spiteful bully. When Wilson was ill, Liverpool musicians like McCulloch and Wylie wanted to put on benefit gigs to raise money for the drugs he needed. I doubt Christian would get such a response if he were in need, even within Manchester.
Paul Scholes was a fine footballer. :cool:
If every footballer was like Paul Scholes football would go bankrupt
You need some personalities in sport it's not the fine arts
If every footballer was like Balotelli, the sport would be a joke, like professional wrestling.
It would still be entertaining though, Which is what it's meant to be. It would still sell
Well, I suppose professional wrestling is entertaining to some, when they all shout into microphones what they're gonna do etc, but not to me since I was about 16...
Studious footballers have their own appeal. For example, I think Gareth Barry has been fantastic since he joined Everton. Not the most glamorous or showy of players, but people appreciate what he puts into the game.
And there was me thinking that being a footballer was about how you performed on the pitch not what you do off it to placate the tabloids.