Bradford Magistrates’ Court disqualified the former Manchester United and England midfielder on 12 August, after prosecutors set out a late-night offence in West Yorkshire. His Range Rover had been clocked at 37mph in a 30mph zone on the A649 Halifax Road near Cleckheaton at 11:30pm on 3 March.

Scholes, 51, was fined £220 and ordered to pay £120 in costs and an £88 victim surcharge over the Cleckheaton case.

The following day at Manchester Magistrates’ Court, a second prosecution added a £660 fine, six penalty points, £120 in costs and a £264 victim surcharge, taking his total bill to £1,472.

The Ashton-under-Lyne case

That Greater Manchester prosecution followed a separate incident in which a Mercedes registered in Scholes’s name was caught at 49mph in a 30mph zone on the A670 Mossley Road near Ashton-under-Lyne at 11:10am on 14 November last year. Police dropped the speeding allegation but pursued him for failing to reply to two letters asking him to confirm he was behind the wheel.

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Court papers noted that Scholes could not be offered a speed awareness course because he was already a “totter” with existing points on his licence, leaving the bench with no option but the mandatory ban.

A midfielder turned pundit

Scholes made 499 Premier League appearances for Manchester United and won 66 England caps before retiring as a player. He now works as a regular football pundit.

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