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Ryan Giggs Signs Up For 21st Campaign

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Manchester United have confirmed that seasoned vet Ryan Giggs has been offered and signed a new, one-year contract extension at Old Trafford – thus taking the Welshman’s vaunted one-club career into it’s 21st season.

Said Giggs, who’ll turn 38 a couple of months into next season, via United’s official site:

“All I’ve ever wanted to do is play for United and I’ve been lucky enough to do that for 20 years. It is great to know I’m still contributing to the team’s success and I feel I’ve got a lot to offer on and off the pitch.

“This is an exciting time to be involved with so many good young players coming through.”

Sir Alex also offered his five-penneth:

“To have the desire and the ability to play at the top level in such a physically demanding position at his age requires a special person.

“You run out of words to describe Ryan. He is a marvellous player and a wonderful man.

“He is still turning in man-of-the-match performances and his experience is so vital for the younger players in the squad.”

‘Hairy’…’hairy’ is a good word to describe Ryan Giggs.

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Gary Neville Announces Retirement

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Gary Neville has confirmed that, after making 602 appearances for Manchester United over the course of an illustrious 20-year one-club career, he is to retire from football with immediate effect.

With Giggs and Scholes plodding on at Old Trafford, Becks still harbouring dreams of World Cup glory, Nicky Butt banging them in for fun out in Hong Kong and brother Phil still skippering Everton, Neville becomes the first of Sir Alex Ferguson’s oft-lauded ‘kids’ to call time on their career  – with a recent string of debilitating injuries (he’s only played 33 times in the last four years) eventually proving to be insurmountable for the 35-year-old.

Sir Alex also used the occasion to mark Neville as ‘the best English right-back of his generation’

Personally not sure how he ever managed to play for so long or how he managed to get so many caps. Every time I saw him play I wished I’d taken my boots as if he got a game, there would have been a damn good chance I would have!

Have you ever found anyone except Man Utd fans or Sir Alex who ever said they’d seen him have a good game?

The new ‘tinker man’?

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Maybe he’s mellowing in his old age, or merely becoming a little more scrambled, but neither fits, really, as a plausible reason for Sir Alex Ferguson’s compulsion to tinker with his team.

Last night’s Champions League game against Valencia was the 150th successive game in which he has made changes to the starting line up, to surely set some sort of magnificently schizophrenic record.

The Manchester United manager is the ultimate football pragmatist though, as his enduring tenure at the top illustrates, and there will always be a method in his apparent madness, no matter how unconventional.

This season has seen him ever more frenetic in his changes, and ever more bullish in his explanations for them. Yet the simple truth behind them probably lies in the wily campaigner’s creeping contempt for the standard of opposition his side faces in the early part of the season.

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Pressure off Avram Grant temporarily as West Ham thrash Man Utd for Carling Cup semi final place

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While Manchester United fans may argue that Sir Alex Ferguson deliberately picked a weakened team to take on West Ham in the Carling Cup quarter final game at Upton Park last night, we all know that Ferguson put out a team that he thought were capable of getting a result against the Hammers, something they failed to even come close to.

There will be those too who dismiss the Carling Cup as a Mickey Mouse trophy, but memories are sometimes short when it suits in football, especially given the significance of being the only trophy in the cabinet from last season at Old Trafford.

No, there is nothing anyone can say that will change my view that United went into last night’s game expecting to win and we should take our hats off to West Ham who simply wanted it more than their illustrious opponents, on the night.

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Wenger admits strategic lies

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Can you trust this man? Arsene Wenger admits he’s lied ‘for a good cause’

• Ferguson denies Rooney rift
• Wenger rules out deal for Pires

Ferguson has explained Rooney’s lack of match time in recent weeks by saying the Manchester United striker has had an ankle injury, but Rooney this week told reporters that was never the case.

United boss Ferguson has since brushed off the whole situation but Wenger’s admission adds weight to the possibility that Ferguson had been fibbing about why out-of-form Rooney was being left out.

“If you ask me have I lied to the press to protect a player, I must honestly say yes,” Wenger said. “I didn’t feel comfortable but I had a clear conscience because it was for a good cause. But when I lie to the press I speak beforehand with the player and say: ‘Listen, this is the story we’re going to give.”’

Wenger declined to identify the lies he had told, adding: “If you ask me why I’ve lied I would have to give concrete examples and you find out which player.”

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