Publicity arrives regardless, partly through his club's remorseless htm self-promotion. I go around with my family and history maps friends - a group maps of six or seven of us who I was at htm school with, or played football with. They all know me and I do not get hassled if I go out around there. Sitting in front of maps a posse of journalists during Manchester United's history maps media day this history week, maps he was relaxed history and thoughtful, showing the history football intelligence htm htm and common htm sense Ferguson has noted."Being 'Ryan Giggs' did not happen overnight," he said.

"It has gradually grown over the last few years, so I have not had to cope with it suddenly. It is not a problem, but it has got more intensive off the pitch."You have got to be careful where you go and what you do outside football, but I still live where I was brought up. The rise and fall of a former Manchester United winger is evidence enough of that and, while it is hard not to be envious, how would you really handle being talented, young and rich - but always in the spotlight?Although two decades separate them, George Best's decline was still fresh in Old Trafford memory when Giggs emerged. It helped that Giggs was local, and thus equipped with a support network of friends and family, but Alex Ferguson was careful to protect his starlet."The manager took a lot of stick for that, but it helped," said Giggs, whose maturation into a personable, level-headed young adult tends to justify Ferguson. Another FA Cup on Saturday, his third already, will only increase the glare.While many boys dream of such achievements, once gained they are not that easy to handle. As Elton John once said: "You read something about yourself and think 'Surely no one will believe that'.

Then you turn the page and it says Elizabeth Taylor is having sex with a monkey, and you call up your friends and say: 'Did you see that? Liz Taylor has sex with monkeys'." No one has yet accused Ryan Giggs of that, but his relationships have become the stuff of tabloid front pages as much as his skills are the talk of the back. The combination of his personal attractiveness, Manchester United's glamour and football's current popularity have made him famous outside his sport and wealthy beyond the conception of most 22-year-olds. Celebrity is a dangerous condition - sought by some, evaded by others - as it has an increasing capacity to destroy the stars it creates. Imagine a life in which lovers from the recent or distant past describe your sexual prowess (or, worse, lack of it) to the News of the World; in which strangers accost you in the supermarket, not always in a friendly manner; in which media inventions become common lore. Then and only then will Lewis allow himself the luxury of a long look ahead.Also featured on the Madison Square Garden card, expected to break box office records at the arena, are the former two-time heavyweight champions Evander Holyfield and Tim Witherspoon, who continue their quest to join Muhammad Ali as the only heavyweight to win a world championship three times.Holyfield should stop Bobby Cruz before the fifth, but Witherspoon may have to go all 10 rounds against Jorge Gonzalez.. Their relationship is an impressive work in progress."It's like we're up in the mountains developing this tremendous, destructive machine," Steward said.