He is my only regret for not supporting/watching United play during my younger days.

Anyways, during my childhood, my first football memories were the WC 94. I thought to myself, "what the hell man, this is so cool." No, football wasn't cool to me that time, but rather the chance to stay up late watching the tele with my dad. I don't remember any player in particular nor do I remember who won the WC that year. Fast forward 4 years, and we had the WC 98 on the tele again. I remembered that I woke up 2 hours early every single day to watch live games before my mom would drag me from the tele to school. WC 98 was special because I fell in love with Holland and the players.

Van Der Sar, Kluivert, Overmars, De Boer brothers, and of course, Dennis Bergkamp. I had my first ever football orgasm watching him bringing down a 50-60 cross from de boer/overmars and scored, something similar to Berbatov's setup goal for Tevez against Citeh, but 10x better. Bergkamp was always in my mind (i have no idea how to make that sentence less gay than it already is) after that goal. One thing led to another, I was introduced to Arsenal (oh, what a curse! ) by my dad, who is an Arsenal fan, after knowing I liked Bergkamp so much. We would watch Arsenal games whenever we had the chance to.

Then, came Giggs. I guess I wouldn't need to elaborate on how he came into my life and erased anything I have learned about football so far. Defying the odds, Giggs produced one of football's greatest goal, a goal that would then ensure United to stay on course of The Trebles. Giggs, my friends, gave me my second footballing orgasm experience. This is when I'm expected to be called a glory hunter, because Giggs scored and United won, right? Supporting the team that wins, I would be the first to raise my hands.

However, in retrospect, had I been exposed to more football than just Arsenal games, had Giggs played for England instead of Wales, had I not able to watch that particular FA semi-finals, and had my dad been supporting other clubs instead, I believe I would have watched Giggs in action more than I hoped. Still, I have much respect for Arsenal (only Bergkamp) and still follow their progress through my dad, haha. Of course, he noticed that I stopped watching games with him, and I started banters with him, for my allegiance stand for United.

So yeah, I'm proud (equally guilty) to say that my first football hero is Bergkamp hahahaha.