Super-sub Ryan Giggs was the catalyst for Manchester United’s win at Stoke on Saturday – and he was rewarded with a starting place last night as Fergie’s men laboured to a 2-1 win over German champions Wolfsburg.
The fact that at 35 Giggs is still going strong and still able to influence matches at the top level is credit to him. When I was 35 I had the knees of a 70-year-old – and he always wanted them back at weekends.
But it’s not Giggs’ longevity I admire most about him. No the one thing I’ve always been in awe of is his five o’clock shadow. He has the most impressive and immaculate stubble this side of Don Johnson – and he’s been like that since he was about 17.
Last night he looked like Naval Action Man so superbly tidy was his facial hair. But what’s most galling was that he was probably clean shaven when he turned up at Old Trafford that afternoon.
You can see the difference in him between kick-off and the final whistle – as smooth as a baby’s bum in the warm-up, David bloody Bellamy at the post-match interview. Just how virile is the guy?
I’m sure if you locked him overnight in a small studio for an interview with Sky Sports equally hirsute front-man Richard Keys, you’d need to hack your way through hairy undergrowth to find them again next morning.
It takes a week for anything to notice on my chin. It’s just not fair.
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