View Full Version : Where is Ryan Giggs?
scoonie45
26 Jul 2002, 08:07 PM
I'm a new EPL fan due to a book (long story). My question, while it may seem a stupid one to most, is where is Ryan Giggs? How come I can't find him on the Man Utd roster on their website? Was he injured last year? Thanks.
Clan
26 Jul 2002, 08:16 PM
He's still there.
scoonie45
26 Jul 2002, 08:25 PM
interesting, thanks.
thedeuce_2
26 Jul 2002, 11:20 PM
He's definitely still with Manchester United, it may be an error on their site, I've noticed they goof up sometimes
LiverpoolFanatic
26 Jul 2002, 11:59 PM
He's probably at home. :p
anywhere but with the welsh national side.
Martin Henry
27 Jul 2002, 09:33 AM
I'm sure he'll be playing for United today against Bournemouth in a pre season friendly...
It's live on MUTV.....:)......
Sorry if you can't get it over there...
Doctor Stamen
27 Jul 2002, 03:02 PM
You're the 1st person I know to have MUTV. I can't imagine any channel devoted to any 1 team to be interesting.
kygunner
27 Jul 2002, 03:42 PM
Giggs has a lucrative Reebok deal that has him on the couch, playing footie in the back yard and trying to play with some young footie fans who dont recognise him. Theres a website with all the commercials. Go to Reebok.com and I think it has directions to the site. Its almost Cribs with Giggs.
Doctor Stamen
27 Jul 2002, 03:45 PM
Actually, he's negotiating a contract with Blackburn, to team up with Cole, Yorke and Gillespie :D. We'll have Ruud in a few years time ! :D.
scouseratheart
27 Jul 2002, 03:49 PM
i wish he'd be making some more stupid comments about winning "the quadruple"...
Doctor Stamen
27 Jul 2002, 04:01 PM
Blackburn have done that !. But then, i was playing championship manager :D.
Martin Henry
27 Jul 2002, 04:06 PM
Originally posted by Doctor Stamen
You're the 1st person I know to have MUTV. I can't imagine any channel devoted to any 1 team to be interesting.
And you're absolutely correct....
The thing is that I always get MUTV for one month every year...
Even then I keep forgetting that I've got it, I get it every year just for the pre season games...
I never keep it because I have never heard such overtly biased "fans" as I do in the phone ins...
I'll give you an example...
A guy from Northern Ireland called in just before Euro 2000 and claimed that Kevin Keegan hated Man United?????...
The reason for this was that he hadn't picked the injured Andy Cole in the England Squad...
This was at a time when he picked Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, Teddy Sheringham, David Beckham and Wes Brown in the squad...
Too many idiots who think they know about football (but obviously don't even have a clue), my telly was in serious danger of being kicked in...
Doctor Stamen
27 Jul 2002, 07:49 PM
You've hit the nail on the head on the problem with these team channels. The bias would inevitably lead to really soft interviews. Would an MUTV interviewer ask Fergie whether he got it wrong over Veron ?, or about the rumours Man Utd illegaly 'taps up' players ?. It would be like The Telegraph interviewing Norman Tebbit about immigration, economics etc.
And of course, you'd gat the most mental, blinkered fans ringing up saying rubbish like you mentioned.
But they'd be useful for the pre-season games.
Useless fact: Blackburn were the 1st team in Britain to have it's own radio station.
usscouse
27 Jul 2002, 11:28 PM
I heard that he was at home recuperating with 3 broken ribs.
Somebody tried to get him to smile and he actually laughed and broke them...:)
Martin Henry
28 Jul 2002, 09:22 AM
Originally posted by Doctor Stamen
Useless fact: Blackburn were the 1st team in Britain to have it's own radio station.
Is that right?...
United have a radio channel but I don't know anyone who listens to it...
Right after our tour of Scandinavia I'll be saving myself £6 a month by ditching MUTV...Until the same time next year...:)...