Ryan Giggs Says Current Manchester United Squad Is The Best

RYAN GIGGS has claimed the current Manchester United team could be the best yet and that includes the 1999 team. I am of the same opinion and have been for the past 2 years as they won two league titles, became European Champions and Champions of the World.

Giggs who is now a grand old 35 years of age has had the most remarkable career with United which includes 10 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cup Medals and 2 Champions League wins. Despite his age he is still going strong as could be seen at Old Trafford recently when he ran amock among the Chelsea team as United crushed them 3-0.

But with United chasing glory on four fronts this season, in addition to their Club World Cup victory, Giggs believes this generation could be the greatest.

"Last year, we won the Champions League and the Premier League - and we won them in great style. But to talk of a great team, you need six or seven consecutive years of dominance. This side is good enough to do that, because all our young players can improve. Basically, I think this year we have the best United team ever."

Is this the pick of the bunch from Fergie's reign as United manager ?

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Manchester United More Disciplined Than Chelsea's Moaners

Champions League final referee, Lubos Michel, revealed that the Manchester United players were much more focused and disciplined than Chelsea's moaning stars at the final of Europe's biggest competition in Moscow.

"The big matches can be about the mistakes of the referee and there was big tension, especially from Chelsea because they hadn't won the trophy before. I had more problems with the Chelsea players; United's were more concentrated. Chelsea had big stars but I thought United had more team spirit. The main problem in modern football is respect to opponents and referees. In that kind of situation, some Chelsea players were over-motivated and there was too much dissent. The game was played on the edge. It was very difficult to hold all of these players under control.'

Sweet news indeed. We all know United have more class than the chavs from down South!

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That Was The Best Manchester United Moment From 2008

There was a great deal to savour in last season's Champions League final – so why is the abiding image of John Terry's slip as he took his penalty in the decider, and the ball's subsequent skid off a post to what Manchester United hailed as safety and Chelsea gloomily accepted as oblivion?

It was not, after all, the end of the story; but for Nicolas Anelka's subsequent failure to beat Edwin van der Sar, the decider might have gone on long beyond 1.34 on a Moscow morning. Yet, because Terry seemed the very heart of Chelsea, the driving force through a campaign that only notionally had been led by the Israeli coach Avram Grant, his miss stuck in the mind.

We have witnessed previous instances of icons falling short from 12 yards. To name just a few who comfortably outrank Terry, Michel Platini, Zico and Socrates frustrated in the magnificent 1-1 draw between France and Brazil in Guadalajara, Mexico, during the 1986 World Cup (France won the decider but lost limply to the Germans in the semi-finals) and watched Franco Baresi and Roberto Baggio clear the Brazilian bar at the end of the goalless 1994 final in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile you could imagine Cristiano Ronaldo winking. The young man destined to pick up just about every trophy going in 2008, individual or team, might himself have proved the focus of anguish for, after putting United in front with a gorgeous header and proceeding to torment Michael Essien, he had his penalty saved by Petr Cech. Anderson and Ryan Giggs then kept United alive until the time came for Anelka.

The Frenchman had declined to take a kick when Grant was asked to nominate his initial five. A 115th-minute sub after Didier Drogba's dismissal, Anelka had not felt ready to face Van der Sar. Yet he had been on longer than Anderson, whose penalty had raged past Cech.

Penalty deciders may not be football, but they are drama. At first you wonder if the victims will ever get over it. But they do. Zico, surely one of the greatest players never to win a World Cup, has seldom been out of work as a manager. Gareth Southgate, whom Terry Venables so heart-warmingly ran to console after his miss ended Euro 96 for England, is making his way at Middlesbrough.

Terry's tears have dried in next to no time – though you may see a couple more if redemption comes at the end of this season.

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