Harry’s mind on Scholes and not goals after rout

If Harry Redknapp does eventually succeed Fabio Capello as England manager — and thousands at White Hart Lane made it clear they hope he won’t — one of the first calls he will make will be to Paul Scholes.

Redknapp is hailed as the perfect antidote to the apparent inertia of Capello’s four-year reign, the manager with the wit and imagination to banish the fear from England’s under-achievers and coax something approaching success from a set-up that has grown used to failure.

It seems though, that there will be no revolution if the 64-year-old takes charge, more the possibility that the thirty-somethings will once more be given their head at Euro 2012, with Scholes, the Manchester United midfielder, again offered the chance to revive an international career he decided to end in 2004 and Frank Lampard restored towards the head of the pecking order.