Fellow Reds - TIFU

Every Friday I play football at my local astro with a couple of people aged between 22 - 50 odd.

Well today it was different - Arrived and to my surprise a camera crew were on the turf. Thought "that's strange".

Get out the car, start kicking the ball about on the opposite end of the pitch. I pay no attention to the camera crew as I wasn't really interested as I thought they were filming for a kids campaign.

Camera crew packs up and leaves. The rest of my lot joined me and said "Did you just see Ryan Giggs down there?"

Turns out they were interviewing Giggs the same time I was kicking the ball on the other end. I was on the same pitch as my all time favorite footballing legend, and didn't know it was him until he left.

I feel numb lads.

Posted Mar 6, 2015, 10:27 PM UTC

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clayzergBlind•11 yr. ago

Today you fucked up.

Juan_KagawaMata•11 yr. ago

At least now you can tell your mates you played some football while Giggs was on the same pitch.

Speedtouch1OPGiggs•11 yr. ago

Haha 'Football'. Did my traditional boot-it-in-the-air to try and bring it down in one like Ronaldinho does in that clip.

Missed horribly, shinned it and went 50m east.

Edit: The Ronaldinho magic touch I was referring to.

drivinganindievanMcNair, Patrick•11 yr. ago

He saw, mate.

Speedtouch1OPGiggs•11 yr. ago

Doing a grass roots campaign too. He must have thought "what am I doing here"

armer_heinrich•11 yr. ago

Ouch, I feel for you. I can claim to have played* on the same pitch as Utd, Barcelona, and Dundee Utd (!) as my old university sometimes used to lend its facilities out to visiting teams for pre-season and some mid-season breaks.

*using the term very loosely, because I'm fucking shite

jonnyaasv. Nistelrooy•11 yr. ago

dundee uni?

bleedrednblackCantona•11 yr. ago

That's a proper fuck up. Like, blowing your university funds on cocaine.

HorriBliss•11 yr. ago

That's a fuck-up?

Time/Money you enjoyed wasting is wasted time/money... right... right guys?

snort, snort

HxCJJ•11 yr. ago

Unlucky man! I would be gutted!

My dad once stood on Sir Bobby Charlton's toe and didn't realise until after he walked off and his colleague told him, now that's a real F-Up.

DictatorshipWorksKingKeane16•11 yr. ago

My brother met roy keane today and got his autograph the little bastard.

iDroidManiacScholes•11 yr. ago

Just be careful throwing insults like that around, you know how hot tempered Roy gets.

emtheory09Jones•11 yr. ago

Damn he got an autograph and a response??!? He's on a lucky streak.

theanonandonly•11 yr. ago

pics

Speedtouch1OPGiggs•11 yr. ago

Professionally done courtesy of Wales Online http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ryan-giggs-qa-manchester-united-8791627

Edit: Can't provide evidence of him being on the same pitch as me - as I said, I had no interest in the crew, and no idea that Ryan Giggs would be in a small Welsh town on a mild Friday evening. Plus I don't take my phone to football.