Scholes told the Sunday Mirror: “It had just come to the point when I just didn’t enjoy playing for England any more.
“I don’t know why it came to that. I probably wasn’t playing very well and I just knew the time was right for me to call it a day.
“It wasn’t a case of me trying to add a few more years to my club career, although I do feel very good at the moment and I would like to think I can go on for a bit longer with United now I’m not playing for England.
“And being played out of position was never an issue either. I know it was said that Sven kept sticking me out on the left and that I didn’t like it, but I had played a lot of times like that for United.
“I just wasn’t enjoying myself. I suppose part of it was that I like nothing more than being at home. International football takes you away from your family for a long time when, for me, there is nothing better than being in Manchester.
“There were a couple of attempts to get me to change my mind and when the England manager takes the trouble to ring you then you have to really give it some consideration.
“I had a think, I spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson quite a lot as well, and in the end decided that I had done the right thing in the first place and didn’t really want to go back.”
