Life of Ryan: Caretaker Manager Page #8

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-two young players at the front.

- Were they?

- Yeah.

- Was you worried?

Well, Daddy was a young player

once upon a time,

about ten years ago.

LIBERTY:
No, not ten years ago, about like 25.

RYAN:
Really?

LIBERTY:
Yeah,

because you've been playing for 25 years.

RYAN:
Why would you say that?

LIBERTY:
Because it's true.

FERGUSON:
The best moments

of your life are playing, no problem.

Coaching, whatever you ever do

after football does not compare

to playing a game of football.

Those cup final goals, the last goal,

the penalty kick in Moscow,

the great goal against Arsenal

can never be achieved again once you stop.

The biggest club of the world.

What do you know about...

INTERVIEWER:
...do you think?

It's not... You have to ask the club, not to me.

My stance isn't any different

from it was last week.

Obviously, there's huge speculation,

but nothing's been announced yet,

and my job is to prepare the team

for Southampton, so that's what I'll do.

I'm sure there'll be an announcement soon,

and then maybe I can comment on it then,

but at the moment it's just speculation,

so there's not a lot I can say.

Team today gonna have to work hard

because these work their bollocks off

and they're good at home,

but the team that we've got,

we've got experience, we've got pace,

we've got players who can...

Who are comfortable on the ball.

They do die at the end, so, subs,

you might come on and win the game,

so concentrate, watch the game.

But it's last game this season,

we want to end on a high.

We want to give our fans

something to shout about,

and City or Liverpool

are gonna win the league.

Give our fans something to shout about.

It's been a frustrating season,

but it's a good game

to play in and one that I'm looking forward to

because of the exciting players

that we've got on the pitch. OK?

Yeah, we got off the plane at Manchester

airport and I was saying goodbye

to the players, thanking them.

Like I say, potentially saying goodbye

to a lot of players for the last time,

a bit of staff.

And... (CHUCKLES)

I'm not an emotional... Well, not really.

I didn't think I was.

I'm not a really emotional person,

but my car was parked right outside

and I thought, "I need to get in my car here."

I could feel myself getting emotional.

So I get in my car,

and I just went, started crying, started

getting really emotional.

I think it was just

a mixture of what I've just said,

saying goodbye to people

for maybe the last time

and the pressure that I'd put myself under.

Sounds stupid now.

But it's just not me, just not me at all.

(CHUCKLES)

I come out of the airport

and I come at the light,

Nicky Butt's just pulled up next to me

and I'm thinking...

F***ing hell. I can't see Butty...

I can't let Butty know

that I've just been crying,

so I just give him a little wave

and just look the other way,

waiting for the lights to go green.

The new, but expected

management line-up has been announced

at Manchester United.

Louis van Gaal, currently the coach

of the Dutch National Team,

will replace David Moyes.

His assistant will be Ryan Giggs,

and with that appointment

the Premier League's

most decorated player announced

he is hanging up his boots

after 24 seasons with the club.

The meeting went really well.

I liked him instantly,

and I'm looking forward to working with him

and learning from him.

He's made a big decision,

I think it's a good one,

to continue as an assistant to Louis van Gaal.

He'll learn so much,

but Ryan Giggs has got a lot of

good ideas himself, as we saw

during those four games as caretaker.

RYAN:
It's been a whirlwind

and I wouldn't change it for the world,

it was just a brilliant experience

and one that I thoroughly enjoyed

and will be all the better for

the next time it happens.

I had sad moments in there,

but, more often than not, happy moments.

Most of them happy, yeah.

Most of them celebrating the end of a season.

You come in,

get your towel,

cover your clothes in a towel

because you know that

the champagne's gonna be sprayed, so...

The experienced players,

as soon as they'd come in from the pitch,

they'd do that straight away.

The young lads would be,

who hadn't experienced it,

"What are they doing?"

And soon find out.

A strange feeling knowing that

I don't have to come in tomorrow and

that it's a new beginning and it's exciting.

For the first time in my career

it's going into

what is gonna be a different season,

a different summer.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

The defining moment as a player,

there's only one,

it's the Arsenal goal. I don't think I did

anything before or after that goal

because that's all people talk about.

Of course, he starts on this foray

of running the defenders by Vieira,

by Dixon, by Keown, by Dixon,

and whacking the ball. Couldn't believe it.

That extraordinary balance and technique

and touch and fearlessness

to destroy what was probably

the greatest defence

that the Premier League has ever seen.

And then had to beat

the best keeper in England

at the time, David Seaman,

and he smashed it above him.

The best thing, obviously, about that

was the celebration afterwards.

And he had his top and

giving that one around his head.

Yeah, unfortunately,

I will never, ever live down...

Yeah, the chest hair, because

that Arsenal goal just gets shown

so many times.

I wish they would just cut it

as soon as the ball hit the back of the net.

So the rest of my career

is just forgotten about,

which ain't a bad thing. It wasn't a bad goal.

If you asked me the three or four best players

in United's history,

Giggs is definitely one of them,

absolutely no doubt.

You can argue with the rest.

RYAN:
I've been fortunate

to play football for a living

since I left school to now, 40,

and play for a team that I supported as a kid.

I've also been fortunate to win things,

and to play under the greatest manager ever

and to play with some of the greatest players

to ever grace a football pitch.

I'm always the kind of person

who tries to look forward,

doesn't dwell on things,

because if I did, (EXHALES)

I'd probably get upset

and it would really affect me, but...

But I've had the best career

anyone could ever have.

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