Quoted in the Times, Giggs looks back on the beginning of his career. “It was funny, I was just knocking the ball past people and running after it. I’d lose it a few times, but I’d get it back. But my game has changed a lot since then. I wouldn’t want to be doing that ten years on. My all-round game is better now.
“I think I suffer because the fans expect me to beat players all the time. That’s something I’ve had to deal with, but with my hamstring trouble, I’ve had to change my game a bit and add other things. You hope the intelligence you gain will help you later in your career. We joke about me being 30 and losing my pace, but I’ve still got it. I think I’ve got better over the last couple of seasons, not worse.”
Ryan also accepts that his contemporaries will leave and that one day he will too:
“The past has gone. Butty and Becks are good mates, but in football nothing is for ever.”