Scholes Scores Goals - With His Hand
Paul Scholes brought his volleyball game to a soccer match on Friday - trying to help Man United come back from a 2-1 deficit to Dick Advocaat’s Zenit St. Petersburg. His silly decision will now cost him a game suspension in the Champions League. Oooops.
As you can expect, his manager was completely livid at him blatantly violating a fundamental law of the game:
Manchester United crashed out of the Uefa Super Cup to an efficient display by Zenit St Petersburg. The Russian side had the better run of play in the first half and deserved their lead going into the break.
United worked harder in the second half, managed to claw back one goal, but a rush of blood and a hand of God saw Paul Scholes pick up a second caution as he punched the ball into the opposition net.
Sir Alex Ferguson spoke to ITV Sport as Zenit partied on the pitch: “We played our best football when we were two-nil down, it was a warm night, we had tired players, but both teams did well.”
Regarding Scholes’ dismissal, the United manager sympathised: “When someone gets sent off by punching the ball… it’s a bit unfortunate, it was an instinctive thing,” when it was brought to the Manchester United manager’s attention that the player would receive a European suspension valid for the Champions League, his face visibly dropped, but he added: “It happens.”
Singling out specific players for praise, Ferguson said: “I thought Tevez was outstanding, he was our best player.”
Did I say livid? I meant hypocritcally rationalizing. Good thing the referee wasn’t, though unless he was Howard Webb, any referee not seeing that blatant handball needs to have his eyes checked!
Here’s some wildcat video of the incident:
Hand of Scholes
and if that doesn’t work …
Hand of Scholes
Here’s a recap of the game:
Uefa Super Cup
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