When Ferguson writes about Scholes you can almost hear the chuckles. From the moment he first encountered him as a youth so small he could not be seen as he hid behind Brian Kidd, to the time he came out of retirement, this was a footballer who could do no wrong. Even his habit of losing concentration at times in matches is not reckoned a fault by his erstwhile boss. It happened, Ferguson reckons, because he was so much better than anyone else he simply used to get bored.