An astonishing goal, simply because he absolutely, definitely meant it, and because it’s easily the hardest thing in the game. Anybody who has ever kicked a ball in anger, be it 5-a-side or pro level, knows that hitting a dropping ball, not least a curving, spinning dropping ball from corner is tricky, to say the very least.
To hit it so true and with such ferocity needs literally perfect technique - an excessively tightened muscle, the slightest variation in angle from the striking foot, a sudden lack of commitment - but Scholes, as usual, has the lot. And no; it’s not a fluke.
If Scholes was born in Sao Paulo and not Salford, he would have been voted the world’s best player over and over again. Zinedine Zidane considers Scholes to be “the greatest midfielder of his generation”. He would know.
