606 Savage Social: Ryan Giggs
606
BBC
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
One of the most decorated footballers of all time and current Wales manager, Ryan Giggs, joins Robbie Savage to answer your questions.
The Manchester United legend discusses facing racism as a youngster and playing in that famous ‘Class of ‘92’ Manchester United youth team.
Giggs answers questions from fans on his incredible title winning career, spent entirely at Old Trafford, playing for Sir Alex Ferguson, how close he came to leaving and who he’d love to have seen sign for the club.
He also reveals the differences between being a player and becoming the manager of Wales.
606 Savage Social is a Shooting Shark Production for BBC 5 Live.
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan |
| 0:05.2 | I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy |
| 0:10.2 | podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. |
| 0:13.0 | Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh, |
| 0:18.0 | making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things. |
| 0:22.0 | But you know I also know that comedy is really |
| 0:24.4 | subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer |
| 0:29.6 | from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you |
| 0:36.2 | fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:41.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | Hi everyone, it's Robby Savage here. |
| 0:50.0 | Thanks for listening to the |
| 0:53.4 | six or six savage social we record these podcasts from our homes during the |
| 0:57.1 | lockdown so you might hear the occasional dog doorbell low motor child in the |
| 1:00.8 | background but I'm sat home and still lucky enough |
| 1:03.2 | that a lot of my former teammates and opponents still talk to me. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm going to get them on the line and put your question to them. |
| 1:17.0 | My guest today is one of the most decorated footballers at all time. He spent his entire career in Manchester United played 672 games between 1990 and 2014 with in 13 Premier League titles, 4 FA Cups, 3 League |
| 1:28.8 | Cup, 2 Japanese leagues and a FIFA club World Cup. Giggs forward and Giggs is running properly and he's still running round Giggs |
| 1:37.0 | clutching the Arsenal penalty. |
| 1:38.0 | Into the Arsenal penaltyer. |
| 1:39.0 | Gig Shuts! |
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