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“Every season you can look at Ryan Giggs moments, and to be playing so well at his age is terrific as well – a great example to young players about how you should dedicate yourself throughout your career.” – David Moyes
Ryan Giggs was my first footballing hero. At first sight, that hairy chested Welsh wizard blitzed into my life and he has continued to amaze me.
He brings me the same spine tingling sensations I had when I first began watching the great man in 1999.
My first football jersey was Ryan Giggs, my first fan girl moment happened because of Ryan Giggs, and my favourite ever goal in football belongs to Giggsy, when he ripped through Arsene Wenger’s side in that fabulous 1999 FA Cup semi-final.
But the one thing I will never forgive Giggsy for is an incident that occurred this July.
I was watching United train at Jubilee Oval in the pouring rain, and Giggsy was meeting the United fans. He totally dogged our section and went straight back into the sheds while he was literally centimetres away from us.
But anyways, his performance midweek and against Cardiff were just sensational, their aren’t many words that can do it justice.
In Wales he made Marouane Fellaini and Tom Cleverley look like amateur imbeciles.
In the Champions League, against a German side, he was breathtaking, he ran over 1000 miles and was involved in absolutely everything. We barely felt the absence of Nemanja Vidic, Robin van Persie and Michael Carrick.
Just look at what his longevity has brought him – a collection of 34 major honors, he has scored in 21 consecutive seasons and he has lifted every trophy physically possibly in club football.
His footballing story is a romantic one. Manchester City didn’t think he was good enough, United gave him a chance, a home, a stable base, and he flourished into being something no one’s wildest imagination could have predicted.
Arsene Wenger pretty much nailed it in his tribute to the wizard this week – “Maybe he is like a good Bordeaux [wine]. He gets better as he gets older.”
You can always rely on him to do a job, and when he does eventually hang up those overrun boots, he will still be continuing the tradition in Manchester, and raising the fledglings of today.
Ryan Giggs is the best player to have ever graced the league, he may not be the most talented baller to have ever graced the English pitches but I dare you to find me someone who looks after them self so holistically, and still has the same drive, hunger, determination, skill and desire to keep putting himself through the training at the age of 40.
Let’s cherish these last few moments with Giggsy – it may come to an end this season or the next, but one thing’s for sure, it’s been an absolute honor to have watched this Welsh hairy chested wizard progress from a cheeky, scrawny 14 year old, to a footballing god of 40 years old.
There will never be another of his sort, he is simply the best.
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