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One-club wonders: Sportsmail's guide to the top 15 players who only ever kissed a single badge
As the ink dries on Ryan Giggs' new one-year contract extension at Manchester United, the Old Trafford legend will have one eye on breaking one of the few records he doesn't hold.
He currently has 787 appearances under his belt, and will pass the 800 mark by the end of the season injuries permitting.
Then he has until the end of the 2010 season to overtake the ultimate one-club man - Portsmouth's Jimmy Dickinson - who chalked up a staggering 828 games for Pompey between 1946-65, 764 of them in the League.
However, Giggs won't be able to catch Swindon Town legend John Trollope whose 770 Football League appearances for the club between 1960-81 will almost certainly never be beaten.
Whatever figure Giggs finally does end his career on, he is certainly a dying breed of player.
Not too many stay in one place for a whole career but there are a few in the Premier League who have worn the same badge for over ten years - and none other.
Manchester United team-mate Paul Scholes has 589 games under his belt, Liverpool duo Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have 468 and 547 respectively and Ledley King would have at least another 150 to add to his 250 at Tottenham but for a series of cruel injuries.
The one-club man is fast becoming extinct so Sportsmail decided to remember some of football's greatest-ever servants.......
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sport...ils-guide-15-players-kissed-single-badge.html
As the ink dries on Ryan Giggs' new one-year contract extension at Manchester United, the Old Trafford legend will have one eye on breaking one of the few records he doesn't hold.
He currently has 787 appearances under his belt, and will pass the 800 mark by the end of the season injuries permitting.
Then he has until the end of the 2010 season to overtake the ultimate one-club man - Portsmouth's Jimmy Dickinson - who chalked up a staggering 828 games for Pompey between 1946-65, 764 of them in the League.
However, Giggs won't be able to catch Swindon Town legend John Trollope whose 770 Football League appearances for the club between 1960-81 will almost certainly never be beaten.
Whatever figure Giggs finally does end his career on, he is certainly a dying breed of player.
Not too many stay in one place for a whole career but there are a few in the Premier League who have worn the same badge for over ten years - and none other.
Manchester United team-mate Paul Scholes has 589 games under his belt, Liverpool duo Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher have 468 and 547 respectively and Ledley King would have at least another 150 to add to his 250 at Tottenham but for a series of cruel injuries.
The one-club man is fast becoming extinct so Sportsmail decided to remember some of football's greatest-ever servants.......
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sport...ils-guide-15-players-kissed-single-badge.html
