Why Xavi regrets not playing with Scholes It was September 1994 a diminutive red head made his United debut in a League Cup match at Vale Park. The local support considered it a sleight on the part of Sir Alex Ferguson to field a team largely made up of kids. They wanted to see the superstars – Eric Cantona, Paul Ince. Mark Hughes and Andrei Kanchelskis. Instead those Port Vale fans had to make do with a host of names they didn’t even recognise. David Beckham, Gary Neville, Nicky Butt and certain Paul Scholes. Or was it pronounced ‘Sholes’? Scholes scored twice that night in a 2-1 win. He would end his career almost two decades later, generally accepted as one of the finest midfielders of all time. At the time of his debut it was still undetermined whether he would be a forward – a successor to Cantona in the hole. He became a prolific goal-scoring midfielder and in his later years a conductor from the middle of the park – producing a master class in passing almost every time he stepped onto the pitch. “When he developed into a central midfield player, he had the brain for the passing game and the talent for [...] manchesterinnews/why-xavi-regrets-not-playing-with-scholes/
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