fuckyeahmanchesterunited:

“I don’t know what I’m doing next year, I just want to concentrate on getting back playing for now” - Paul Scholes (2011)

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Ever since I was a kid playing under the block or playing street soccer, or even playing on the field with friends, Paul Scholes has been the only player I look up to and to this date, I still do.

His vision is simple wide and far, his passes are accurate and his shootings are powerful. His creativity on the field knows no boundaries.

Definitely a legend. To me at least.

iloveunited:

“I’ve still got Paul Scholes’ shirt at home, which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most.”

“Maybe he’s not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the ‘ideal’.”

“He certainly has the talent to have adapted to Spain – or Italy, or Germany, or France. Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.”

- Xabi Alonso

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loveyourchaos:

coconutmaplefigandpaperclips:

The Prize Doesn’t Always Go To The Most Deserving
Irena Sendler
1910-2008

A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won - for a slide show on Global Warming.

(via myquarterlifecrisis)

good read.