Top 5 most annoying football debates

3) Gerrard/Lampard vs Scholes

Chelsea and Liverpool’s rise in the Premier League circuit inevitably pitted their icons against Manchester United’s own midfield general Paul Scholes. While Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard relatively peaked at the same time, Scholes enjoyed his peak in the early 2000s as a prolific attacking midfielder(whom most of my generation were too young to witness) and then switched to a deep lying playmaker role where he excelled and was the fulcrum of United’s sides from 2004 to 2011. Lampard and Gerrard being completely contrasting players offer no basis for comparison, yet Chelsea and Liverpool fans constantly gloat over whose better. While most Liverpool and Chelsea fans ridiculed Scholes while Chelsea and Liverpool began to make a mark, his retirement tributes that flowed from every fellow professional silenced their scorn once for all. Xavi and Pirlo’s heroics later on educated the uninitiated about the role of a deep lying midfielder, a position currently that Gerrard and Lampard are both finding edgy, to put it in its mildest.