Paul Scholes: Man United legend's insane passing range captured in video

Paul Scholes has always been famous for his world renowned passing ability.

The midfield maestro, who spent 20-years at the heart of the Manchester United team, is widely regarded to be one of the greatest footballers in Premier League history.

Upon his retirement in 2013, the plaudits rumbled in with their glossy quotes as they rightfully do for all Premier League legends, and the one thing that always stuck out about Scholes was his surreal ability to pass a football.

As Ian Holloway said: “When he passes a ball, it stays passed. It goes exactly where he wants it to.”

And the stats back that up. In 2012, Scholes recorded a passing accuracy in the Premier League of 92.5%, which considering he averaged 9.9 accurate long balls per game is a pretty outrageous stat for a central-midfielder.

It ranked him second overall in the standings for the season, behind only Leon Britton of Swansea City, although, the Welshman averaged less than half the number of successful long balls completed.

Which is where Scholes really excelled, as shown in this video posted on Twitter which has got fans purring over the Englishman’s passing range.

Watching Paul Scholes play diagonals was a thing of beauty. How Manchester United could do with a midfielder with his level of class on the ball now. Precision