When Ryan Giggs said he was enjoying his "first year without football" in 2017, he explained what he'd been doing during a supposed sabbatical from the sport.
There was TV punditry, work with Uefa as a technical observer and the running of Salford City.
"You find out there's a whole big old world out there," Giggs said without a hint of irony in a London hotel where he was endorsing a grassroots coaching venture from one of his sponsors. He'd also been playing futsal, he added, and watching his son play, too.
For a year without football, there seemed to be a lot of football.
Giggs, then aged 44, was referring to a break from the professional game to which he had committed more than half his life - as a player and coach. It was telling how consumed he was by the sport even during his brief hiatus of sorts.
This was an insight into the mind of a football obsessive, a Manchester United legend who made his debut in 1991 and retired 23 years later, before making the transition to the dugout and aiming to prove himself anew. Six months after that day in the London hotel, he was named Wales manager.
Despite his iconic status at Old Trafford, Giggs' appointment by Wales was divisive. Many fans remained sceptical, a few were even resentful over a perception Giggs had tended to put club before country in the past.
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