Scholes responded in an Instagram post by saying: “Someone’s had a good game, was really happy for you.” He has now joined fellow ex-England international Butt on The Good, The Bad and The Football podcast.
On that, outspoken Butt said in response to Martinez: “First and foremost, he was brilliant on the day and fair play to him. He’s gone out and gone man-to-man against probably the best centre-forward in the world, possibly. Him and Harry (Maguire), to be fair, were brilliant, so we could come on here now and say, ‘Brilliant, well done.’ But that is what is expected from a Man United player on derby day.
“For me, we are a podcast, and we talk like three lads in a pub having a conversation, we are not on Sky doing commentary on a game. It is tongue in cheek, and it is quite obvious that Haaland is not going to pick him up and run with him. It is f*cking obvious. It is a figure of speech.
“I just think when someone gets so upset about someone in the media or on a podcast saying something about them, to come out and basically say they can say what they want and all that, f*cking grow up.
“It is literally if you are going to get so emotional about someone saying something and come out and react like that, you shouldn’t be at a big football club because I am telling you now, he is going to get that for the rest of his career at Manchester United.
“You get your ups and downs and I got so much crap when I played at Man United and Newcastle, but then next week you get your plaudits and you get clapped at. There is no personal issue with us and Martinez. None.”
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