ringledman
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Ryan Giggs, the greatest ever player to grace the Premiership.
Name another footballer in the world who has performed as consistantly at the highest level for as long as Giggs has.
The most professional, dedicated & talented sportsman you will ever see. A legend.
Ryan Giggs, the greatest ever player to grace the Premiership.
Utter tosh. He's an excellent player but the 'greatest ever to grace the premiership'? Nope. He's shining this season more than others because the Winker is gone.
I think a certain M. Cantona might have a slightly better chance of attaining that particular accolade (along with many others).
Correct having played under-age for England the FA discovered he was only qualified for Wales or Sierra Leone at senior level.... Giggs didn't bother his backside playing for his country - I think he wanted to be registered as English...
What about Gary Speed who has more appearances than Giggs, and he played more internationals than him, and he played for more clubs than Giggs which is harder to do. Giggs didn't bother his backside playing for his country - I think he wanted to be registered as English.
David James also has over 500 appearances - it's harder to be a goalkeeper.
Correct having played under-age for England the FA discovered he was only qualified for Wales or Sierra Leone at senior level.
I think he played schools for England, probably because he was in England from 14. Made his debut for Wales at 17 so didn't exactly hang around.
Maybe, but I don't think he actually qualified for England, he played schools for them because thats where he attended school.He played for Wales because he is Welsh and his mum wanted him to play for them.
He could easily have played many many games for England on the left flank if he had wanted.
Giggs is an above average, had working premiership pro full stop. At no time in his career has he been regarded as one of worlds elite players. Not to put him down as he's one of the better players of his generation, but he's not a game changer and never has been.
My assessment of Giggs career is that when he was teenager, he was hyped out of all proportion and touted as a future great. However, he never quite fulfilled these expectations. While if all this early hype had never existed, he would have been regarded as one of the better players of his era, I think that the fact that he never lived up to the hype has unfairly tarnished his career. There are still a lot of Man U fans who still hanker back to the hype of his early career or, due to being impressionable, still believe it. But talk to people in football circles (and I mean privately, not PR bull they say in public) and they'll have a similar assessment to the above.
As for the premiership era, Giggs is not quite as good as e.g Steven Gerrard, Thierry Henry, Paul Scholes (who is under rated by Man U fans), Alan Shearer etc. and numerous other imported stars who only played a handful of season in England.
Not to put him down as he's one of the better players of his generation, but he's not a game changer and never has been.
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