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Paul Scholes behind the bar in The Castle(Image: Billy Reid (X))<\/p>\n‘Pulling the levers even in retirement’<\/p>\n
18:27, 12 Sep 2025Updated 23:30, 12 Sep 2025<\/p>\n
Paul Scholes behind the bar in The Castle(Image: Billy Reid (X))<\/p>\n
Punters at a legendary city centre pub got a surprise when they spotted Manchester United<\/a> legend Paul Scholes<\/a> pulling pints behind the bar.<\/p>\n The former Reds and England star was spotted in The Castle on Oldham<\/a> Street in the Northern Quarter<\/a> yesterday (Thursday, September 11).<\/p>\n A video shared on X, formerly Twitter<\/a>, showed two people sat at the bar as the midfielder turned TV pundit, 50, pulled a pint from an old-fashioned cask hand pump.<\/p>\n “Pretty sure Paul Scholes is pulling pints in the pub I\u2019ve just walked into\u2026 ?!” the stunned punter wrote alongside the video.<\/p>\n Never miss a story with the MEN’s daily Catch Up newsletter – get it in your inbox by signing up here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n One person joked he must have ‘fallen on hard times’ whilst another quipped he was ‘pulling the levers even in retirement.’<\/p>\n The Manchester Evening News can in fact reveal Scholes was filming a promo for a podcast with his Class of 92 teammate, Nicky Butt.<\/p>\n Paul Scholes pouring pints in a Manchester bar<\/p>\n Titled ”The Good, The Bad and the Football’ it also features Bolton-born comedian Paddy McGuinness<\/p>\n Scholes and Butt previously appeared together on a podacast called ‘Football’s Greatest Eras’ where they gave insight and memories of their time playing under Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> in one of British football’s most successful sides.<\/p>\n After coming through United’s academy, Scholes went on to make almost 500 appearances for United, winning 11 Premier League<\/a> titles, two Champions League<\/a> trophies and four FA Cups.<\/p>\n As a pundit Scholes works mostly for TNT Sports but also hosts The Overlap Fan Debate show with Jamie Carragher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Pulling the levers even in retirement’ 18:27, 12 Sep 2025Updated 23:30, 12 Sep 2025 Paul Scholes behind the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,143674,393,4884,2465,8086,12038,423,13481,9158,18597,8937,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-class-of-92","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-centre","14":"tag-manchester-pubs","15":"tag-manchester-united-fc","16":"tag-nicky-butt","17":"tag-northern-quarter","18":"tag-paul-scholes","19":"tag-pubs-and-bars","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115194231880996135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Paul](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757724373_610_maxresdefault.jpg\")
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