Talks ongoing to get Ryan Giggs in PL Hall of Fame after initial invitation was withdrawn in 2020 due to court case.
In 2020, Ryan Giggs received an invitation to join the Premier League Hall of Fame, but the offer was later withdrawn.
The Covid epidemic caused the 2020 induction of Alan Shearer and Manchester United’s record appearance maker to be postponed. Thierry Henry took Giggs’ position in a rescheduled event in 2021.
In April 2021, while Giggs was manager of Wales, he was accused of using coercive or controlling behaviour towards his ex-partner Kate Greville and attacking her sister prior to the Hall of Fame ceremony. After his ex-partner declined to testify at a retrial, the Crown Prosecution Service eventually dropped the charges against him in 2023.
Calls for the 52-year-old to be added to the esteemed list of the greatest players in the Premier League have grown after the case’s collapse. Giggs scored 168 goals in 963 games for United between 1991 and 2014. He holds the record for most Premier League titles won by any player, with 13.
In December, Giggs said the Hall of Fame was “not something that I really think about”. He told the Daily Mail: “If it happens, great. If it doesn’t, then I won’t lose sleep over it.”
The Premier League is understood to have been in talks with Giggs’s agents since 2020 and conversations were last held before the most recent Hall of Fame induction ceremony in November.