Paul Scholes: Steven Gerrard will not be proud of his England career

Paul Scholes and Steven Gerrard in England colours

Former Manchester United and England midfielder Paul Scholes has delivered a ruthless assessment of Steven Gerrard's international career. He said the Liverpool midfielder, who recently retired from international football, will ultimately look back at his England career as a 'failure'.

Scholes told the Sun, "I’m sure like the rest of us who have played over the last 20 or 30 years, he won’t be proud of his England career.

"He might be — but when you think of an England career, you want to have achieved stuff at major tournaments. And we’ve failed to do that.

"For 30 years, we’ve not been good enough, apart from Euro 96 and maybe Italia 90. Apart from that, we’ve failed."

Scholes and Gerrard were both a part of England's 'golden generation' that went on to achieve no major international honours over the past couple of decades.

England’s Golden Generation that failed to add any major trophy for England

Scholes also added that there is no obvious choice to replace Gerrard as the England captain but for now, Rooney should take the responsibility.