While the former Manchester United and England midfielder was a crucial part of Sir Alex Ferguson’s astonishing success over the last 20 years at Old Trafford, perhaps a little less known is his party trick of hitting people not really paying attention with the ball from great distance.
In the recent movie, The Class of ’92 – charting the rise of ‘Fergie’s Fledglings’ – Ryan Giggs testified to the fact that, “you soon learned that you couldn’t turn your back on the training field when Scholesy was around,” such was his accuracy with the ball.
Unfortunately, the two noisy Italian chaps in this clip weren’t quite as aware of the great man’s range…