United legend Giggs gets hair transplant

Ryan Giggs sits for a hair transplant after the “stress” of playing for Man United made him lose his locks, reports The Sun.

The Red Devils legend, 46, told how playing top-flight football for 24 years left him going bald. And it was old school pals who alerted him to his thinning top — after he celebrated scoring twice against arch-rivals Liverpool at Anfield.

Wales boss Ryan explained how he first cut off his long curls to disguise his hair loss. He feared playing when it rained because above-pitch TV cameras would highlight the

fact he was going thin on top.

Speaking of the match in 2003, Ryan, then 29, said: “We’d won and I was buzzing. I walked into the pub later and was expecting to hear ‘Well done’ from my mates and all I got was ‘Flippin’ heck, your barnet’s going’. It was a bit of a shock. It was like, ‘cheers lads’. It was one of those.”

Ryan, who played 963 times for United, said the comments made him begin to worry about losing his hair.

He recalled the moment to staff at MHR Clinic in Knutsford, Cheshire, the hair transplant company he partowns with former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan and hair restoration expert Craig Henton.

He said: “I got a little bit paranoid, especially when I was going to be playing on TV or it was going to rain. I was almost 30 then. At the end of my teens and in my early 20s I had really thick hair, long hair, curls.

“That’s why I started to cut it a bit shorter. I felt the shorter it was, the thicker it looked. It had a big bearing, over the years, on my hair getting shorter and shorter,” he added.

Ryan reckons the pressure of toplevel football, coupled with Sir Alex Ferguson’s “hairdryer treatment” when the team played under-par, may have accelerated his hair loss.

Ryan Giggs reckons the pressure of competing at the top-level in football, coupled with Sir Alex Ferguson’s “hairdryer treatment” when the team played under-par, may have accelerated his hair loss.