Football: Scholes decision to retire a 'sad day' for England and Eriksson

The former England boss shared his worst experience with the 'fantastic' Paul Scholes. "Paul Scholes could play everywhere. He was fantastic. One of the biggest, saddest problems I had was when he came to me and said he didn’t want to play for England anymore. A sad day. I tried to convince him to stay but he wouldn’t so finish in 2004 in Portugal. What to do with [David] Beckham, [Steven] Gerrard, Scholes, [Frank] Lampard? You let them play. They are so good so they should be on the pitch. What would have happened if I benched them? They were very good. We did rather good. We did okay."