Rhodri Giggs: Cheating rat Ryan took all I had

Posted Monday, January 16, 2012 by The Sun

Rhodri Giggs: Cheating rat Ryan took all I had
Affair ... Giggsy made beauty Natasha his goal

Rhodri recalled that Ryan was marked out as special from childhood because of his footballing ability.

He said: "When you watched him at 16, he was head and shoulders above everyone else. He was born to play football. I was very proud of him when he signed for Man United at 14."

Rhodri is £400-a-week player-manager at semi-pro Salford City, while Ryan is on a massive £75,000 a week. But he believes Ryan's success at a young age made him think he could do as he pleased.

He said: "He had a company car at 17. Ryan thinks he's untouchable, most of those footballers do.

"He did this to me because he would get away with it."

Rhodri said when he confronted Ryan last year about his betrayal, he categorically denied it. He even asked to heal an earlier rift that had stopped them speaking.

Rhodri recalled: "He said to me, 'We need to be brothers again, we have never been the same since we became so competitive against each other'.

"That made me think, 'Are you jealous of me? I don't understand. Look at me compared to you. I think you won'."

Holding back tears, Rhodri said: "When we were kids we were inseparable.

"I looked up to Ryan and I still did until last year. But not any more."

Rhodri served a 4½-month sentence in 2001 for assaulting a Manchester City fan who was abusing him for being Ryan's brother.

Ryan never visited him inside. Then he presented him with a £25,000 motor on his release. Rhodri said: "It think it was guilt."

He said Ryan once gave him another car, a Toyota he won for being man of the match — but took it back after they had a fall-out.

Rhodri added: "He gives with one hand and takes with the other."

The brothers have not spoken since early July — four weeks after the affair was revealed.

The Sun revealed on Saturday that dad-of-two Ryan — still married to Stacey, 32 — has yet to apologise. Rhodri and Natasha are trying to rebuild their relationship for the sake of their two children.

And Rhodri said of Ryan: "He wants to be brothers again but wants me to do the sucking up — like everyone around him. He's selfish. Whatever suits him, he'll do."

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