England midfielder Paul Scholes looks set to undergo a hernia operation...

England midfielder Paul Scholes looks set to undergo a hernia operation, with a date yet to be confirmed, his club manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has revealed...

Ferguson said: "Paul has been carrying a hernia problem for quite a bit."

"It is really painful and at the moment it is not possible for him to play two games in a week."

"He will need an operation at some point but we will have to pick our moment."

Scholes is England's most capped player under Sven Goran Eriksson.