In an interview with September's GQ magazine, Manchester
United's long-serving midfielder Ryan Giggs says:
"The manager would watch me when I was 13, 14, and I'd get the
hairdryer treatment."
Now 34, the Wales international continued: "My attitude was always
'right, I'll show him he's wrong.' He'd shout everything he could
think of as loudly as he could. Telling you how badly you'd played
and you'd never play for the club again. Dropping you was as bad as
it could get.
"He'd never have a go for missing a chance or an open goal. But if
you weren't working hard enough or had a shot when someone else was
in a better position to score, they were the worst crimes
imaginable to him...He can still drop you, as he did [to me] last
season. The good thing now is I get 'rested.' It's the best thing
about getting older."
However, while Fergie's hairdryer is an awesome motivational force,
he still rates his mother as the ultimate critic.
Asked by GQ whom he finds the scarier of the two, Giggs replied:
"Oh, my mum, definitely.
"She'll say 'you were crap today, Ryan.' She's watched me play more
than anyone, so yes, she knows what she's on about."
