Woodhouse: Giggs was incredibly overrated

RYAN Giggs has been branded ‘unbelievably overrated’ by a former Premier League player in an astonishing Twitter rant.

The Welshman is one of the most decorated players in English football history, having won an incredible 34 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, four FA Cups and two Champions Leagues, during his 24-year playing career at Old Trafford.

He is widely regarded as one of the best wingers ever to have graced the English top flight and was lauded for his speed, dribbling and cultured left foot.

However, it appears not everyone subscribes to that view.

Former Sheffield United and Birmingham City player Curtis Woodhouse has offered his scathing assessment of the 64cap former Wales international.

“Ryan Giggs, another unbelievably overrated Manchester United player,” Woodhouse wrote on Twitter. “Outstanding longevity but in a team that dominated for years and were a free-scoring machine his statistics for goals and assists is awful. Another Manchester United myth, good player, never anything more.

“Giggs has 162 assists in the PL over 22 years to go with his 109 goals, again over 22 years. His team dominated them 22 years of football, breaking scoring records as they went. Ryan Giggs was a left winger, looking at his stats you may confuse him with a left back.

“Giggs didn’t even have a good left foot!! He was an outstanding athlete but his left foot wasn’t that good. His delivery was OK, not great, he couldn’t spray it about, he was a great athlete. Let’s keep it real.”

Woodhouse went further in his withering attack, too, in a series of tweets to support what he had already said.

“Giggs was a good player, very reliable, very consistent and his longevity is incredible,” he added. “He was never anywhere near world class, he never had anywhere near a world-class season.

“Giggs is probably the most overrated player of the last 50 years.”

He later added: “Another unpopular opinion. The Giggs goal against Arsenal (in the FA Cup semi-final in 1999) is massively over-hyped. A really important goal but not a great goal. Adds to the Giggs myth really.”

Woodhouse said that Arsenal great Robert Pires was “streets ahead of him” and that Liverpool right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold is a greater attacking threat now than Giggs was throughout his entire career.