Kieron Dyer, by his own admission, failed to fulfil the huge potential that he showed as a youngster.He still enjoyed a decent career - playing for the likes of Ipswich Town, Newcastle United and West Ham - but, unfortunately, there will always be that question of ‘what if’ hanging over him.Dyer also made 33 senior appearances for England, which is an achievement in its own right, but that tally would have been even higher were it not for a succession of injuries and his questionable attitude during the early years of his career.The 39-year-old, whose autobiography is currently being serialised in the British press, admits the penny only finally dropped for him when he was 28 years old - and by then it was too late.However, Dyer still made a fortune from football and, perhaps more importantly, many great memories along the way.He played alongside some of the best English players of the last generation including Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Paul Scholes.But it’s Scholes, the Manchester United legend, who Dyer rates as the best player he played with during his career.

Dyer: What happened with Scholes that I'd never seen before

Writing in his autobiography, Dyer has revealed what happened with Scholes during one England training session that he only ever saw happen once.

“Paul Scholes was the best player I played with and people like Xavi and Zinedine Zidane counted him as their favourite player,” Dyer writes, per the Daily Mail.

“Other nations would have used him as their fulcrum but Sven Goran Eriksson’s first-choice midfield was always David Beckham on the right, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard in the centre and Scholes on the left.

“We didn’t have a football culture that appreciated him. So we wasted him by putting him on the left and banished him to the margins. It was disrespectful, one of the biggest crimes ever.

“When you talk about Gerrard, Lampard and Scholes, Scholes was the best of the three and yet he was asked to give way. He was the absolute master of one touch in training. One day he scored three or four goals — and I’m not talking tap-ins. I’m talking 25-yarders-lodging-in-the-stanchion-type goals.

“When the session was over, the rest of the England players formed a guard of honour and clapped him off the pitch. I’d never seen that before and I never saw it again.”

Has this ever happened to another player before?

Wow. That’s the first time we’ve ever heard of a player receiving a guard of honour in training for their exploits during one session.

Dyer’s anecdote just provides further weight to the argument that Scholes, rather than Lampard or Gerrard, was the best player of the midfield trio.

Do you agree with Dyer? Was Scholes better than Gerrard and Lampard? Have your say by leaving a comment below.