Top 10 best Premier League comebacks: players who returned to their former clubs

3. Paul Scholes

When Paul Scholes hung up his boots in 2011, English football thought it has said goodbye to one of the Premier League’s greatest ever players. But it hadn’t… After six months in retirement, the pass-master got itchy feet and returned as a United player in a 3-2 FA Cup win over neighbours City in January 2012. Scholes played for another season-and-a-half, helping United to the Premier League title, before finally calling it a day…for good!