Ryan Giggs: ‘The likes of Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo get away with murder now’
Posted in News on Saturday September 17th, 2005 3:35pm
When they come to write the definitive history of Nineties football, of the birth of the Premiership, of the rise of the footballer as modern icon, there will be a chapter that belongs to Giggs alone. With Manchester United he has won eight Premiership titles, four FA Cups and a European Cup, and an automatic place in the greatest side of the past 12 years has been his for the asking. Then there are the fabulous goals he has scored, his part in the treble season of 1999, his occasional famous girlfriend - never mind his power to draw record crowds to shopping centres in unremarkable provincial towns.
But most of all there is the longevity - over the past decade he has come to symbolise a club reborn in a city rebuilt. Now a couple of months short of his 32nd birthday, Giggs was playing when a United victory could still be celebrated on Saturday night in Manchester’s late lamented Haçienda night-club, when the last League title at Old Trafford was still 26 years ago. The black hair is now just touched with grey above his ears but there is a part of English football’s subconscious that will forever remember Giggs as 17 years old, head down, skimming along Old Trafford’s left wing.
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