Post by Scott on Jul 20, 2006 2:51:27 GMT
The Sun:
“It’s not nice seeing Chelsea pick the trophy up at the end of the season. We’ve said for the last two seasons this is the year we are going to catch them but have not managed it.
“We want it back as much now as the first year we lost it. The European Cup’s big but, being English and with the Premiership so massive, we have to concentrate on that.
“I’m just as determined as ever. We’ve won a lot of trophies before but that doesn’t matter, it’s what happens now.
“We’re still desperate to win things — we want the title back and to win it every season. At the moment United are still the team everyone wants to beat. It’s up to us to make sure it remains that way.”
Scholes burst on to the scene a decade ago as one of the “you win nothing with kids” brigade which finished up by landing the double in 1996.
He had made a two-goal debut in the League Cup win at Port Vale in 1994, but only established himself two years later — and now has SIX Premiership and THREE FA Cup winners medals in his cabinet.
Now he finds himself in the role of mentor to a crop of youngsters boss Alex Ferguson rates as the best since David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Phil and Gary Neville and Scholes took the game by storm.
And Scholes believes it is time for the likes of Giuseppe Rossi, Phil Bardsley and David Jones to start carving their own piece of United history.
“It’s not nice seeing Chelsea pick the trophy up at the end of the season. We’ve said for the last two seasons this is the year we are going to catch them but have not managed it.
“We want it back as much now as the first year we lost it. The European Cup’s big but, being English and with the Premiership so massive, we have to concentrate on that.
“I’m just as determined as ever. We’ve won a lot of trophies before but that doesn’t matter, it’s what happens now.
“We’re still desperate to win things — we want the title back and to win it every season. At the moment United are still the team everyone wants to beat. It’s up to us to make sure it remains that way.”
Scholes burst on to the scene a decade ago as one of the “you win nothing with kids” brigade which finished up by landing the double in 1996.
He had made a two-goal debut in the League Cup win at Port Vale in 1994, but only established himself two years later — and now has SIX Premiership and THREE FA Cup winners medals in his cabinet.
Now he finds himself in the role of mentor to a crop of youngsters boss Alex Ferguson rates as the best since David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Phil and Gary Neville and Scholes took the game by storm.
And Scholes believes it is time for the likes of Giuseppe Rossi, Phil Bardsley and David Jones to start carving their own piece of United history.
