I know Ferguson kept him away from the media for a long time to 'protect him', but I think I've realised why. I've just heard him speak for the first time, and he sounds like Bob Mortimer as Otis Redding.

As an aside, Ryan Giggs is fucking amazing. Him and Scholes are really the last two emotional links I have with Big United.

I saw that clip of Solskjaer's goal against Charlton from a few years back, when Giggs hit the bar from the halfway line. Ferguson can be seen to mouth "Did you fucking see that?" to someone, which is as good a buit of punditry as you're likely to get from anywhere else. It was a true Fucking Hell moment. Awesome. I think Matt P (Where is he? He's missed around these parts) described it as one of his favourite football moments. Stunning.

My sister used to work with Giggsypiggsywiggy's bessie mate at a promotions agency in Manchester. Apparently Giggs's is as sound as a round pound on the ground.

Heh, yeah, I was also thinking that Giggs has a weird voice. But it's his eyes that are totally unnerving.

Giggs is Olivier at his most expressive and exuberant compared to the blank, nasal drone of evil that is Michael Owen or the disinterested, rambling tone of Gerrard.

Ha! Ive struggled to describe the Cheshire accent to people in the past; I'm going to have to nick "blank, nasal drone of evil" as the best description I've heard!

The apostrophe should come after the 's'.

When I think of Ryan Giggs' voice, I'll always think of his dead-eyed, monotone performance in that Quorn advert.

Sadly Youtube doesn't have it, but the memory is vivid.

Interviewer: Ryan, you've just equalled Sir Bobby Charlton's record number of appearances in a Man Utd shirt, are you bothered?

Giggsy: Do I look bothered?

Cnut.

What a waste of sperm

Eh?

JtS does this a lot. He's off on one. Just stand back until he burns out.

Probably true.

Sorry, he just really pissed me off with his absolute lack of care about his achievement.

But equalling someone's appearance record is a very abstract achievement for an active player, especially someone who has just won the title and is about to play in a European Cup Final. I'd rather Giggs attitude that , say, Ian Wright's Nike assited wanking - himself - off after breaking Arsenal's goal record.

There was real warmth in Giggs' embrace with Charlton after the game though.

Oh, and the prominence of football's most famous current Cardiffian at the start of this week is an omen as far as I am concerned.

Uncanny. That's me in our back yard, when no-one's looking - playing passes off the patio wall, dribbling round the rotary drier and chipping the ball into the composter. Nutmegging the rabbit.