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Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt were in attendance at Old Trafford to watch Manchester United suffer a 2-1 FA Cup defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion<\/p>\n

20:46, 11 Jan 2026Updated 22:36, 11 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

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Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Sir Alex Ferguson ahead of Manchester United’s FA Cup defeat to Brighton(Image: (James Gill – Danehouse\/Getty Images))<\/p>\n

Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt watched Manchester United get dumped out of the FA Cup<\/a> alongside Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a>. United were beaten 2-1 by Brighton & Hove Albion<\/a> at Old Trafford<\/a> as Danny Welbeck came back to haunt his old club.<\/p>\n

Welbeck scored his side\u2019s second midway through the second-half after Brajan Gruda’s first-half opener. Benjamin Sesko’s header five minutes from time breathed life into the home side, but 18-year-old home substitute Shea Lacey was sent off in the final minute.<\/p>\n

Scholes and Butt joined Sir Alex Ferguson in the Old Trafford directors’ box for the game, after they opened up on their struggles to get match tickets. Scholes is not a regular in the directors’ box.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast<\/a> two months ago, Scholes revealed: \u201cIt’s a very different football club to the club we knew.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know about you Nicky, you worked there quite recently, but I don’t really know anybody there.\u201d To which Butt replied: \u201cI don’t know anybody there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scholes then continued: \u201cI have four season tickets, so we use them… my son uses them every single week. You get people asking (for tickets).<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve had a Salford lad who wants to got to the game this week – a couple of tickets. So I’ve had to ring a tout? Am I allowed to say that? Honestly, I know a tout.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Butt revealed: \u201cMy lad has got the same thing. If you don’t use them three times, you get them taken off you.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve had an email saying, ‘You’re having your ticket taken off you’. So I rang them up and said, ‘Can I speak to somebody about this, please?’ And they go, “Who am I speaking to, please?” and I go, ‘Nicky Butt,’ and they go, ‘OK, well, who’s that?'”<\/p>\n

Scholes jumped in and joked: \u201cWho’s that? Is that the one who used to play for Newcastle?\u201d Butt then added: “I couldn’t really say it, but I felt like saying, ‘I played about 450 games for this club!'”<\/p>\n

\"Nicky<\/p>\n

Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Sir Alex Ferguson during Manchester United’s 2-1 Fa Cup defeat to Brighton(Image: (James Gill – Danehouse\/Getty Images))<\/p>\n

United are working to appoint an interim head coach after Ruben Amorim was sacked last week after 14 months in charge at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

And speaking last week, Butt said: \u201cTuchel is my No1, my No2 maybe Michael Carrick, but my outsider\u2026 go and get Keaney. People might laugh and he might not want the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut United have tried everything: superstar managers in Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho<\/a>, one of their own in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, then they\u2019ve got one of the best coaches in Europe in Ruben Amorim, with a few in between.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome have been shocking. Why not have a conversation with Keane? He would lead the dressing room, he might fall out with a few, he might knock a couple out, let\u2019s be honest, but the fanbase would go whoom [together and upwards].<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/p>\n

Thomas Tuchel and Roy Keane before England’s World Cup qualifier against Serbia at Wembley Stadium(Image: (Michael Regan – The FA\/The FA via Getty Images))<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might never happen. It will take a real strong leader to employ him, but sit down and have a chat with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoy has changed unbelievably in the last ten years \u2013 he\u2019s always been funny and great company, but he\u2019s calmed down so much, and he definitely knows his flaws and would bring people in to accommodate that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will blow and cause problems, but he would put something in the changing room that it\u2019s not had for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scholes agreed with his former team-mate on Keane and also said he wouldn’t appoint Gareth Southgate, Xavi or Oliver Glasner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt were in attendance at Old Trafford to watch Manchester United suffer a 2-1…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":510158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[3898,161123,78958,58559,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-510157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-manchester-united-fc","9":"tag-nicky-butt","10":"tag-paul-scholes","11":"tag-sir-alex-ferguson","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115880531375376057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}