Manchester United legend Paul Scholes admits he pushed to make his comeback in 2011.

Having initially retired from football at the end of the 2010/11 season, Scholes sensationally came back six months later and went straight into Sir Alex Ferguson's squad for an FA Cup third round match away at Manchester City.

He recalled to BT Sport: "[Ferguson] wanted me initially to come back and coach the reserve team with Warren Joyce and I said in September (2011) I'd come back.

"So I started helping Joycey, and I was training with the reserves. I was training every day with the likes of Pogba, Lingard, all these types of players. They were a really good side and I was really enjoying training.

"I was getting fit, I felt great, and it got to December time and the team was struggling a bit.

"They had a load of injuries, no central midfield players were fit. They ended up playing Phil Jones and Fabio da Silva in central midfield in a game against Blackburn at Old Trafford.

"Funnily enough that was the end of Pogba, because he thought he should have been playing instead of them. But he wasn't doing well enough."