Already United's most decorated and dependable player, Giggs would become football's Superman, a legend for the ages, if he completed the rescue and total resuscitation of the team that Alex Ferguson built and which his successor, David Moyes, quickly broke.
Just imagine: May 2015; another tremendous Premier League season ends with United restored as champion of English football, back where Ferguson left the club on his retirement last year. The 10 months of Moyes, the dreadful defeats and mediocrity, would become nothing more than bad memories as Giggs' thankful players drenched the manager's dark suit and United-red tie with champagne.
Hollywood stuff. United fans got a taster of such a future when Giggs took temporary charge last weekend, coaching his teammates to a 4-0 win against Norwich while the club works out who to trust with the full-time job and the tens of millions of pounds it must spend to recruit desperately needed new players.
Even after 26 years at the club he joined as a willowy schoolboy, Giggs was blown away — "I've never felt like that, you know? I felt 10 feet tall," he said — by the roar and welcome from the Old Trafford faithful when he strode onto the stadium pitch as caretaker boss.
English media tip former Bayern Munich and Barcelona manager Louis van Gaal as favorite to take over permanently after he finishes coaching the Netherlands at the World Cup this June-July in Brazil.
But Giggs is the emotional favorite. United's American owners, the Glazers, risk looking cold-hearted if they overlook him, especially if his team now wins the last games against Sunderland, Hull and Southampton to make amends for this trophy-less season and to offer hope for the next one.
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