Number 1: Ryan Giggs
After an amazing debut by the 17 year old Giggs against QPR in 1989 he could never live up to the hype of being labelled 'The Welsh Wizard'! mainly due to him having never actually had any formal wizard training.
In the game, he scored twice and set up a 3rd for Brian McClair and the drooling press went overboard with comparisons to the Irish superstar.......... Norman Whiteside and the Sun's famous headline called him 'A white Bobby Charlton!'.
The pressure was too much to handle at a time when footballers were becoming front page celebrities as well as back page fodder. At a party once at the house he shared with Celebrity Love Island's Lee Sharpe, his manager Alex Ferguson waited outside because he hadn't been invited. He eventually plucked up the courage to gatecrash, he entered and found the easily led Giggs smoking a cigarette, so to punish him he made him eat the entire packet in an attempt to put him off for life!.
No matter how hard he didn't train, he could never recreate the magic of his first match and by 1991 had been loaned out to Hamilton Academicals in the pointless Scottish League. Even this level proved to be too high for the now alcoholic Giggs and Manchester United, desperate to 'get rid' of their problem star said they would 'Pay anyone who wants to take him off our hands!'.
Total Network Solutions in his homeland took up the unique offer famously netting £1 million in the process.
He managed 5 games for the Welsh minnows in the inaugural Welsh League, but retired in 1995 aged 22 when he finally admitted he would never make it big in the game. From 1995 to date he has had a variety of jobs including, erotic night club dancer, part time drug dealer and umbrella salesman but these days he can be found on the streets of Manchester as the city's most popular beggar!.
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