Harrison hails United’s millennium man Giggs

Eric Harrison, former Manchester United youth team coach, still swells with pride when he sees Ryan Giggs in action.

Including his 64 Wales caps and four appearances for Team GB which began with a friendly against Brazil at Middlesbrough, Giggs’ next appearance will be his 1,000th.

It is a quite staggering figure no one could have predicted, even if, like Harrison, your first glimpse of the player was like that of United manager Alex Ferguson, who famously described Giggs as being like a “cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind”.