Scholes keeps old school alive

NEWSPAPER instant-polls are becoming more knee-jerk than ever before, but I’d forgive the British broadsheet that asked its readers last week: “Is Paul Scholes the greatest-ever United player?”

Well no, of course he isn’t, you dolts — but one is nonetheless grateful that this much-loved local legend is finally beginning to get the gushing acclaim he has always deserved.

I have waxed lyrical about The Prince here many a time before but still: can you do it too often? Some of his 60-yard passes at Wembley and Old Trafford this past 10 days have been as good as any ever seen in Red for imagination and foresight, let alone accuracy. He’s 36-years-old. 36! A wheezy, old man prone to asthma attacks and terrible tackle-outbursts, and sorely afflicted by gingerness — yet no current Red is more venerated.