Despite the advancing years, some things do not change.

Paul Scholes, now 40, was back at Old Trafford on Sunday for the second leg of United’s Legends clash with Bayern Munich and back to his old tricks.


Within a minute the greying Ginger Prince drew cheers from a youthful crowd with a precise 40-yard cross-field pass to Phil Neville and moments later he mistimed a tackle to give a free kick away on the edge of the box to knowing laughter in the stands.


It was as though he had never left.