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Paul Scholes has revealed he stopped doing commentary work for the good of his disabled son. The former Manchester United midfielder stopped his studio work in order to fit in with the routine of 20-year-old Aiden.

Scholes co-parents his son, who has severe autism, with his ex-wife, and opened up about the challenges on the Stick to Football podcast.

He said: “Everything I’m going to do now just works around him. I do studio work, but everything is built around his day.

“Last season, on Thursday nights I’d do the Europa League for Man United, that’s the night I’d usually have him, so he was getting all agitated, biting and scratching. He knows the pattern’s not there straight away.

“And I did that for years really, always thinking I’ve got to stop this at some point, s

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