ryan giggs scandal Ferguson, who blasted the use of social networking site Twitter only last week, will now be wondering if Giggs is psychologically ready for the big game. Despite his anger, however, the Red Devils manager is renowned for standing up for errant players, as long as those players are doing the business on the pitch. He kept faith in Eric Cantona following the Frenchman’s infamous kung-fu kick episode at Selhurst Park in the mid-nineties, and refused to drum Rio Ferdinand out of Old Trafford when the defender failed to attend a drug test and was subsequently banned for eight months.
More recently, he defended Wayne Rooney who, like Giggs, was exposed as a marital ‘love rat.’ Rooney also stayed on his manager’s good side a month ago when he was banned for mouthing obscenities into a Sky Sports camera. Ironically, Giggs has credited Ferguson in the past for keeping him on the straight and narrow. It is the stuff of legend that when the Welsh winger was still a teenager, Ferguson frogmarched him out of a late night party. Now Giggs will be hoping the only manager he has ever played for at club level will continue to be a father figure — and grant him his shot at a third Champions League winner’s medal. After breaking into the United team in the 1991/92 season, Giggs became one of the most respected players in the game. He made his debut aged 17 as a substitute against Everton, and two months later scored the winner against Manchester City at Old Trafford on his full debut. Nineteen years on and he is considered by many to be the ‘golden boy’ of football and it was all smiles for him and his two children on the pitch as they celebrated his record-breaking run.
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