Top 5 English midfielders of the Premier League era

#1 Paul Scholes

For all his brilliance, Scholes couldn't tackle even if his life depended on it.

No doubt in our mind who is the greatest midfielder to come out of English football. It is undoubtedly the Manchester United legend Paul Scholes.

If you're still wondering what parameters this decision was based on, we'd like to tell you that things like goals and stats, matches played and victories, competitions won and all that kind of stuff matters very little when you're talking about a player of the calibre of the Englishman.

Don't get me wrong, some of the best numbers in the game belong to Scholes with 705 appearances resulting in 149 goals. He's won the Premier League uncountable times with United and also has also won the UEFA Champions League.

But that's not how you describe Paul Scholes. We don't actually know how to describe the true brilliance of the man except to say this. He was so darn good, you hated him for it! You hated it every time he got on the ball against your team because you knew you were in trouble.

You couldn't contemplate how someone could be that good at football despite being horrible at tackling and tracking-back, his inability to run and his hatred towards getting into the opposition penalty area. But the little he did do was the stuff of legends.

He's not the quickest, he doesn't run the most, he never wins a header, he can't tackle but he's the best player.

- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

I remember reading something about Paul Scholes, a joke someone made on the internet. It went something like this...

"Scholes is so good, he could find my dad with a pass. And I haven't seen him since third grade."

We couldn't come up with a better way of describing the genius that is Paul Scholes.