QPR boss Harry Redknapp says every England fan wishes Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs had been born English.
Redknapp pays tribute to Giggs in A Man Walks On To a Pitch, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail.
He says: "Every Englishman wishes Ryan could have played for us because we had a real problem on the left throughout the 1990s, but his family is all Welsh. He played for England Schoolboys, but the moment it came to senior football he could only represent Wales.
"It could have solved so many issues had he been able to play for England because we ruined a succession of players out on that left flank: Paul Scholes retired because he kept getting stuck out there; Joe Cole made a decent fist of it for a while; they even tried my lad Jamie out there in one game.
"It's a scary position if it is not yours by right because it is so hard to get in the game.
"Ryan was born there; he had pace, he could cross, come inside or go outside."
