Liverpool: 'Worst football opinion ever seen' about Scholes and Henderson re-emerges | OneFootball

Paul Scholes is never far from the heart of online debates amongst football fans.

The Manchester United legend is one of those players who is best appreciated by way of the ‘eye test’ with a quick glance of their statistics not sufficing when it comes to understanding the true depths of their quality.

It’s easy to read ‘just’ 55 Premier League assists written next to a player so widely heralded for their creativity in midfield and to assume that he’s some sort of overrated hype job.

Now, most people who watched Scholes in action with their own two eyes will know that’s far from the case, but it seems as though Liverpool fan Craig isn’t ‘most people’.

Now, you might know Craig Houlden – to give him his full name – from over at the Anfield Agenda, creating streams and videos based around Liverpool in much the way that Mark Goldbridge does about Manchester United for The United Stand.

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What did Liverpool fan say about Scholes and Henderson?

And back in 2020, Craig went viral when he gave his two cents on Scholes as part of an ‘Unpopular Opinion’ feature with 888sport.

Now, this was a time where Liverpool were strutting their way to a first league title in 30 years and Jordan Henderson, the club captain, was playing the best football of his career.

In fact, with Henderson on his way to being named FWA Footballer of the Year, Craig posited the idea that we should forget the Scholes vs Steven Gerrard vs Frank Lampard debate because the United icon can’t even compete with the Reds’ skipper.

“My unpopular opinion is that Paul Scholes is completely over-hyped and Jordan Henderson is a better player,” Craig declared. “I am sick of listening to the ‘Gerrard-Scholes-Lampard’ debate; Scholes doesn’t belong in that.

“Jordan Henderson has been a career of progression. He led the English under-21s, he captained the English national team. The man dominates in midfield, can play in any position and every manager he has worked under trusts him implicitly.

“Scholes is nowhere near fit to lace even Jordan Henderson’s boots. He’s nothing but a ginger Mark Noble and that is my unpopular opinion.”

Now, Craig managed to put the ‘unpopular’ in ‘unpopular opinion’ to such an extent that the video has attracted massive numbers yet again now that the video is fast approaching its third birthday.

With : “This is by far the worst football opinion i have ever seen in my life…,” the video has managed to go viral all over again.

Video: Liverpool fan gives ‘worst football opinion ever seen’

How did football fans react?

With all due respect to Henderson, there’s good reason to think that the man himself would even happily concede that he’s not a superior player to Scholes.

Henderson deserves huge credit as a Premier League and Champions League-winning captain, but is he pound-for-pound more technically gifted and influential for his team than Scholes was for Sir Alex Ferguson’s all-conquering Red Devils?

I really rather doubt it, but I guess that’s why it was an ‘unpopular opinion’ in the first place.