Retired Manchester Unitedlegend Paul Scholes says England will always flop because of their SELFISH players.
He admits one of the reasons he quit England after Euro 2004 was his frustration at a lack of national pride in the international set-up – not the fact that Sven-Goran Eriksson played him out of position on the left of his diamond formation.
He revealed to the Sunday Mirror: “I got fed up. When you are going to a team, you want to be part of a team and play well, but there are individuals who are after personal glory.
“When there is a simple pass of 10 yards, they might try and smack it 80 yards. They will do things to try and get themselves noticed.
“Playing on the left was never a problem. I played on the left for United I don’t know how many times. I probably had my most successful time scoring goals in that position so it was never a problem.”
Scholes admits Jamie Carragher’s claim that it hurt more to lose for Liverpool than England probably summed up the lack of passion and commitment, as well as selfishness, that runs through the Three Lions set-up.
Scholes said: “You still hate losing whether it is United or England. Maybe that is half the problem then, if players are going into that squad and not caring about it.
“I think there definitely is an element of that – what Jamie said about not being bothered about England losing. I always felt players at clubs like your Aston Villas try to use England as a way to get to a top club.
“Which, I don’t know, you feel, ‘Are they there for the right reason?’ I think they are very selfish people. It happened in my day. I think they are all there to get their bit of glory, their bit of headlines to think ‘Oh, I will get a move from this’.
“That is the biggest problem with English players – most of them are just too selfish.”
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