Ryan Giggs has revealed that he was tempted to quit the Wales job before he took charge of a game because of how 'horrible' it felt to be a manager.
Manchester United icon Giggs won 13 Premier League titles and captured the Champions League twice during a stunning 24-year playing career at Old Trafford.
But despite his experience on the pitch, Giggs has admitted that he almost quit as Wales manager just two months after being appointed to the role in January 2018.
Giggs said, as reported by the Sun: 'I remember being on the coach before my first game for Wales in China. I was at the front of the coach and I'm thinking, 'This is my last game'. I don't want to feel like this again.
'I'd only had the team for a couple of days, I'd prepared the team as best as I could and then everything is out of your hands. It's a horrible feeling.
'But the more you do it the more you get used to it. It gets easier but it's still not easy.
'The highs are huge, better than when you are a player but the lows are much worse.'
Giggs spent the majority of his playing career working under Sir Alex Ferguson at club level at United and suggested that he had taken some traits – like the famed 'hairdryer' from his former manager.
He laughed: 'It has been known that I'm a ranter. Half-time is one of the most difficult things as a manager. You haven't got long.
'It's not difficult losing your rag or you're not playing well or the players haven't done what you've said.
'That's the easy bit. It's when you come in at 2-0, that's the hard bit to maintain that they do it again.
'I actually enjoy it a lot more if I have to have a go at them because you've got something to say and you get it off your chest.
'I'm pretty calm but if the players don't do what I've said then there's no messing about. I just rip into them.'
Source: m.allfootballapp.com