Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has backed-up his ex-England team-mate Jamie Carragher by ripping into the craze of taking post-match dressing room pictures.

Speaking on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football show, Sportsmail columnist Carragher criticised Aaron Ramsey and his Arsenal team-mates for taking a snap behind the scenes at the Etihad after their 2-0 win against Manchester City last weekend.

And Scholes, who believes the dressing room should be a private place, agrees that those sort of pictures should be reserved for when a team has won a trophy.

Aaron Ramsey celebrates with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Olivier Giroud and Per Mertesacker at the Etihad

Paul Scholes believes dressing room photos should be reserved for showing off trophies like the FA Cup

Santi Cazorla celebrates with Olivier Giroud after converting his penalty to give Arsenal the lead against City

In his column for The Independent, Scholes wrote: 'It was Aaron Ramsey doing it on Sunday after Arsenal beat Manchester City 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium, although I am told he is by no means the only offender.

'In my world the dressing room was sacrosanct. The only time anyone was permitted to take pictures in there was when we had won a trophy. Unless I am wrong, Arsenal only got three points for beating City. It wasn't the European Cup final.'

Scholes spent almost 20 years in United's first-team and he insists that during his time at Old Trafford the dressing room was always respected as a place for the players, even by manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

He added: 'If you want a measure of how private a place the dressing room was when I was growing up at Manchester United, consider this: even Sir Alex Ferguson would knock before coming into the dressing room at the Cliff, the old training ground. The dressing room is for the players, and the players only. It was a rule respected by all the staff at Old Trafford.'

Sir Alex Ferguson used to knock on

Sportsmail's Jamie Carragher has criticised Arsenal's players for taking a photo after winning at City

Sky Sports pundit Carragher posted a selfie with Gary Neville and co after Monday Night Football

Alexis Sanchez (above) took a selfie with Mesut Ozil, Mathieu Flamini and Oxlade-Chamberlain

Dressing room pictures are commonplace these days, although Ferguson did his utmost to stop his United players posting them to social media sites according to Scholes.

'In my final couple of years at United we had one player, new to the team and young, who posted a picture from the dressing room on Instagram or Twitter,' Scholes wrote.