At the end of 2011, after several months out of the game post-retirement, Paul Scholes was bitten by the bug once again.
“I came back in September with Warren Joyce and the U23s and I was training every day,” Scholes told DAZN.
“I felt as fit as I’d probably ever had done after having four months off – it was just the break I needed. I said to Joyce that I wanted to play again – I just wanted to play.
“Where it was I didn’t care. I didn’t expect United to want me back.