As featured on NewsNow: Football news

Giggs: Man Utd and it's culture perfect for me

Ryan Giggs admits playing for Manchester United has been "perfect".

Giggs, now a player-coach, says he draws on his past experience with previous leaders to help guide the current generation.

He told the Telegraph: "I still get angry in the dressing-room. I'll shout. I'm a moaner. If someone's made a mistake, I'll let them know - 'what were you thinking?' - because I feel that's my job. I hope they learn from that. It made me stronger when Bryan Robson and the others did it to me when I was starting out. I remember sitting on the coach, thinking 'this is the end of the world, the Gaffer [Alex Ferguson] has had a go at me, we've just got beaten and I've missed a chance and he's not going to play me next week'. Robbo would come up and say: 'Don't listen to him, you're young, you'll make mistakes, just come back the next game'.

"This has been the perfect club for me, the perfect manager, giving young players a chance. He recognised the history of the club and could foresee young players playing in the first team from seeing them in the youth team. 'Just do what you've been doing in the youth team,' he told me."

 For breaking stories and all the great banter like us on Facebook: facebook.com/tribalfootball

Video of the day:

About the author

Tribal Football Staff

×

Subscribe and go ad-free

For only $10 a year

  1. Go Ad-Free
  2. Faster site experience
  3. Support great writing
  4. Subscribe now
Launch Offer: 2 months free
×

Subscribe and go ad-free

For only $10 a year

Subscribe now
Launch Offer: 2 months free