{"id":287802,"date":"2011-03-03T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/paddy-crerand-hails-ryan-giggs-as-greatest-ever-manchester-united-player\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T10:32:00","slug":"paddy-crerand-hails-ryan-giggs-as-greatest-ever-manchester-united-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/paddy-crerand-hails-ryan-giggs-as-greatest-ever-manchester-united-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Crerand hails Ryan Giggs as greatest ever Manchester United player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>3 Mar 2011 10:32:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"68.1281366791\">\n<div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryan Giggs(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b58b39c9115447_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ryan Giggs(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"35.4315789474\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a> legend Paddy Crerand believes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/wales\/1947\/ryan-giggs\">Ryan Giggs<\/a> will eventually come to be known as the club&#8217;s greatest ever player.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran midfielder recently celebrated 20 years since making his debut for the club, and remains the most decorated player in the history of English football.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old has won two Champions League titles and has 11 Premier League triumphs to his name, along with a plethora of other honours that include four FA Cup and four League Cup wins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the next 15 to 20 years everybody will by saying Ryan Giggs is the greatest player to ever play for Manchester United,&#8221; Crerand told the <em>BBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just look at his record. All of Wales can be very proud of what he&#8217;s done &#8211; I don&#8217;t know if he has any records left to break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ryan looks after himself so well &#8211; he&#8217;s playing now as if he&#8217;s 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn&#8217;t be surprised that next season he will be signing another year&#8217;s contract with Manchester United.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crerand continued: \u201cBobby Charlton was one of the people who took [manager] Alex Ferguson along to see a young Ryan Giggs training and his eyes just lit up on seeing the young player &#8211; and I&#8217;m talking about when he was 15, and he&#8217;s still going 22 years later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes people tell you about young players and nothing really happens to a great degree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes great players can be great players at 15 and 16 and then at 17 they&#8217;re gone, but this one is still going at 37 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can play for 20 years for some club that&#8217;s maybe not recognisable by a great deal of people, but to play for the number one club in the world, that&#8217;s amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/03\/2377307\/paddy-crerand-hails-ryan-giggs-as-greatest-ever-manchester\" title=\"Paddy Crerand hails Ryan Giggs as greatest ever Manchester United player\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paddy Crerand hails Ryan Giggs as greatest ever Manchester United player<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 3 Mar 2011 10:32:00 Ryan Giggs(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United legend Paddy Crerand believes Ryan Giggs will eventually come to be known as the club&#8217;s greatest ever player. The veteran midfielder recently celebrated 20 years since making his debut for the club, and remains the most decorated player in the history of English football. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paddy Crerand hails Ryan Giggs as greatest ever Manchester United player - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/paddy-crerand-hails-ryan-giggs-as-greatest-ever-manchester-united-player\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Paddy Crerand hails Ryan Giggs as greatest ever Manchester United player - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 3 Mar 2011 10:32:00 Ryan Giggs(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United legend Paddy Crerand believes Ryan Giggs will eventually come to be known as the club&#039;s greatest ever player. 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