Paul Scholes on Roy Keane: He handed out the bollockings and we took them

Roy Keane would have been called an awful lot worse in his time than "the manager on the football pitch."

But that's exactly how Paul Scholes referred to his former captain in an interview on Off the Ball tonight. Scholes knows Keano better than most after the pair looked after the middle of the park for Manchester United for 12 years and the former England midfielder revealed that the players knew the value of Keane's occasional tongue-lashing. "He handed them out and we took them," he laughed. While he and Keane appeared each other inside out on the pitch, Scholes revealed that the pair never needed to talk much. "It was very natural, not much communication on or off the pitch, there was never any need to be. Everyone who played with Roy knew how good he was, he was somebody you could rely on." When asked what led him to his current role as a pundit on BT Sport, Scholes had the perfect explanation for his decision.