By Ryan Fahey A dad is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed in the neck in a beer garden on New Year’s Eve. Anthony Scarff, 50, was ringing in 2024 at The Blue Bell pub in Shaw, Oldham when he saw a pal being attacked by a group of young men. As he went to intervene, a knife-wielding stranger plunged the four-inch blade into his neck. The group, which was made up of four men in their 20s, had gone into the beer garden looking for one person before attacking others. His wife, Danielle, 36, was at home with the kids when she received the terrifying call telling her he’d been hurt. Distraught, …