Most Manchester United fans would say Liverpool are the club's biggest rivals but Ryan Giggs has revealed he disliked Arsenal more during the late 1990s.
United and Arsenal dominated the Premier League title race for the majority of the '90s and that led to Giggs' hatred towards the side which was then managed by Arsene Wenger.
Speaking about his dislike for their team and their players Giggs told The Daily Mail : "I didn’t like Vieira ’cos he was dirty and got away with murder. I didn’t like Petit because he had long hair. I didn’t like Bergkamp.
"I didn’t like Pires even though when you meet him now he’s actually dead nice. I wouldn’t even look at them, didn’t know them and didn’t want to. I wouldn’t allow myself to rate any of them.
"Berkgamp? Nah, I told myself he wasn’t as good as Eric Cantona. I wasn’t really that kind of person. It wasn’t really me. But you had to get that in your head, that intense dislike. It was pure motivation. But deep down we knew. They were top drawer and that rivalry was everything to us. Deeper even than Liverpool at that time."
The Wales manager scored one of the greatest FA Cup goals of all time against Arsenal and he recalled the reaction in the dressing room after his wondergoal which sent United through to the FA Cup final.
"At the time I thought the goal was OK. Only later did I realise how far out I was when I got the ball," Giggs recalled.
"Roy Keane was sitting in the dressing room when I got in. He said, 'Here he is, the f****** saviour.' The other lads were celebrating but because it was the winner, not because it was a worldie."
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