Paul Scholes tells Arsenal legend Martin Keown to 'do one' in row over demand for a Premier League medal in the Man City cheating scandal

Paul Scholes has doubled down on his view that Manchester City's Premier League winners should have to hand over their medals.

And the Manchester United legend even told Martin Keown to 'do one' when the Arsenal hero disagreed with his view.

Manchester City were blasted by the Premier League last month for making 'sham' agreements to manipulate their financial accounts to the tune of £900million between 2009 and 2018, during which time they won eight trophies.

City insist they are innocent and are appealing the verdict, which found them guilty of 114 of 115 charges.

Last week, Scholes posted on Instagram: 'Keep hearing ex-teammates say they want trophies taken off them, but they don't want their medals [to be handed over].

'F*** that, I'm a greedy b*****d, I want my medal.'

Paul Scholes wants another Premier League medal off Manchester City - and has told Martin Keown to 'do one' for disagreeing with him

His old rival, Keown, was unimpressed with Scholes' demand and criticised it on talkSPORT

Scholes lost out on the Premier League title to City on the final day of the 2011-12 season, the one enshrined in the country's collective memory with Sergio Aguero's late goal.

But Keown and Simon Jordan were unimpressed with the 51-year-old's opportunistic moaning, and took shots at him on talkSPORT.

Regarding his demand for extra medals, Keown hit out: 'How many does he need? He’s got a dozen or so already, but I can’t tell him how to behave or think.

'For me, I just think it should be void. I think if we’re going to take away Man City’s trophies throughout that period it should be made void.'

Jordan added: 'I always thought Paul Scholes was a very balanced individual who made sensible points.

'Maybe his experience in management at Oldham has corrupted his thinking because all of a sudden he’s got a podcast and he feels that he and Nicky [Butt] have got to say controversial things. I think he’s a bit better than that, really.'

Scholes did not take kindly to their criticism, responding to a clip on Instagram: 'Pot, Kettle, Black, Simon.'

The Premier League confirmed that Manchester City are guilty of the most serious financial rule breaches

He then clapped back at Keown: 'And you can do one with that "void season" nonsense.'

Scholes's grievance is understandable, given the scale of City's apparent cheating.

In September, Daily Mail Sport reported how City had been found guilty of 114 of 115 charges against them.

In a lengthy statement, the Premier League say City arranged 'sham contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on "sham" agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club's revenues and reduce its costs'.

It also says the club falsely altered the financial picture at the Etihad to the tune of £900m. The club had agreed exorbitant sponsorship deals with a number of companies but those sponsors only paid part of the fee.

The rest was propped up by the Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club.

As the Premier League note, this allowed City to 'artificially inflate the club’s revenues' and therefore spend more under Premier League rules. The higher the revenue a club records, the more they are permitted to spend.

Keown and Scholes are pictured together suited up on punditry duty at Old Trafford

Moreover, further 'sham' deals, funded by ADUG, allowed the club to 'record lower operating expenses than it actually incurred'.

The Premier League say that revenues were inflated and costs reduced to the tune of £900million in an attempt to comply with spending rules. The result was that the club 'filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators'.

It added that the club was 'significantly in breach of both the Premier League's and UEFA's spending limits' during the time period in question, 2009-2018 when it won eight major trophies.

Had City reported accurately 'it would have been in breach of both the League's and UEFA's spending limits by a very substantial amount'.

The panel also found that City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and good faith in that it failed to assist the Premier League's four-year investigation, triggered by the emergence of club emails obtained by a hacker.

Indeed, City had 'made concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the PL investigation'.