"As sports journalists throughout Britain tried to make sense of the amazing
scoreline at Old Trafford today, United captain Ryan Giggs has given his
honest opinion as to why a team, who hadn't lost at home this season,
capitulated so easily to their long term rivals Manchester City.

" We were just not used to playing in shirt's without sponsorship. Ever
since I started playing in 1991 we have always had a logo on our kit, be it
'Sharp' 'Vodafone' or nowadays 'AIG'. It didn't feel right just playing for
Manchester United, my heart wasn't in it. The players are commodities now.
We know we are walking billboards and we feel comfortable with that. I have
talked to the other lads and to be honest they all said the same thing. We
felt naked out there today. You can't throw yourself into tackles if you
think your souls are hanging out of your shorts."

We think that recent signing, Brazilian wonderkid, Anderson supported Giggs.
Talking to our reporter he said,

" O meu amigo é correto. Eu quis os meus testicals estiveram na demonstração
hoje. Os bastardos, o fundo, os arsehole "

Unfortunately our paper does not have access to a Portugese translator.
However one can only assume Anderson was not happy about the situation.

On similiar lines, 29 year old, mixed race defender Rio Ferdinand, said,

" I agree with Giggsy. We didn't stand a chance out there today. The boss
allowed us to change our underpants at half time. I wore a pair with
'Barclaycard' written down the side, whilst Scholesy had a pair sponsored by
'Toys 'R' Us'. It felt slightly better and I think that reflected in our
second half performance but it was too little too late. Do you know that not
wearing the 'AIG' logo cost us all £30,000 each today. I worked that out at
£333 per minute or £5.50 per second. It's difficult to concentrate on a
cross with those kind of figures racing around in your head. I only hope for
the clubs sake that they don't do the same thing in another 50 years time ".

Mr Ferdinand thanked our Sports correspondent and told us that he would
expect the bill for the 2 minute interview to be settled by early next week.
Further he said that he would like it to be known that his, 'Whiter than
white smile' was thanks to 'Aquafresh extreme clean toothpaste', and that
his close shave was due to, 'Gillette,.. the best a Manc can get'.

http://petermusgrove.com/2008/02/10/lack-of-sponsorship-affected-our-performance-admits-giggs/

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