If you were to thumb through the elegantly quilled CV of the Salford born ginger ninja Paul Scholes [Cptn Crunch to his friends], planted right in between mentions of his 9 Premier League titles, 66 England caps and glowing references from Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry and Xavi, you’d inevitably find the term ‘can’t tackle’.
Force-fed to footballing fans with stunning regularity ever since Scholes first strolled onto the pitch in the early 90s, the term is today believed to account for two thirds of a commentator’s vocabulary during any one United game.
But with the clock fast ticking on Scholes’s career, where next for commentators ? Who, post-Scholes, will plug the gaping hole left in the commentator’s verbal armoury ?
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