Man Utd: 5 Reasons Why Ryan Giggs Is The Greatest Premier League Player Of All Time

by Joseph Dempsey

penned a one-year extension to his deal at Old Trafford to tie him at the club until 2014, and past his 40th birthday. The veteran, who has won 12 Premier League titles, 4 FA Cups, 4 Football League Cups, 8 Community Shields, two Champions Leagues, 1 Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup during his glittering career at the Theatre of Dreams, could make his 1,000th senior appearance against Norwich tomorrow. It is yet another milestone in a truly astonishing and unrivalled career, and his accomplishments show no signs of cessation. Against Everton last month, he became the first player in history to score in every single Premier League season since its inception, meaning he now has 23 unbroken years of league goals behind him. Giggs began smashing records from a young age. He was the first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards in 1992 and again in 1993 and since then he has only gotten better. There are very few superlatives I could use here to do justice to a player who has been heralded by his peers as "the greatest ever", but still I thought I'd try to outline just why he is the greatest Premier League player of all time. Click "Next" to get started.

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Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.