The boss defiantly states that his intent to play them against Tottenham in the Carling Cup on Tuesday will not be swayed.
Opportunities were given to six players under the age of 22: Danny Welbeck (then 18), Federico Macheda (18), Rafael (19), Gabriel Obertan (20), Anderson (21) and Darron Gibson (22).
“It will be the same players that played on Wednesday,” he said of his team for Tuesday’s visit of Harry Redknapp’s side. “Their future is well marked out, I think.”
“Of course they will grow from that experience. I was confident of playing them, and they had every right to play. They will play on Tuesday, too.”
Ryan Giggs embarked on a different kind of international break last month, when he travelled to Sierra Leone in his role as a UNICEF ambassador.
He witnessed at first hand how funds raised by the United For UNICEF partnership are being used to combat the spread of HIV in the West African state. It’s a major challenge - currently 935,000 people in Sierra Leone have HIV, following a 75% increase in new infections since 2002.
Raising awareness is a key objective - only 17% of young people in Sierra Leone understand how to protect themselves against HIV.
In an effort to improve this percentage, UNICEF have used the power of football - and United in particular - to communicate with young fans in Sierra Leone. Giggs and his team-mates Patrice Evra and Rio Ferdinand appeared on billboards and television commercials in the country, prior to Ryan’s visit in person.
“The main purpose of my trip was to help educate young people in Sierra Leone and give them the knowledge to prevent the spread of HIV,” says Ryan.
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According to Australian scientist, kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer.
Researchers at Melbourne University are investigating whether a DNA repair enzyme found in the jumping marsupials could provide a model for preventing DNA damage linked to many skin cancers in humans.
"Other research teams have proposed a 'dream cream' containing the DNA repair enzyme which you could slap on your skin after a day in the sun," scientist Linda Feketeova said.
"We are now examining whether this would be feasible by looking at the chemistry behind the DNA repair system."
Feketeova and colleague Uta Wille, who are working in collaboration with scientists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, are investigating whether sun-damaged human DNA can be repaired using the kangaroo model.
Using a mass spectrometer instrument, they are simulating the impact the kangaroo enzyme would have on DNA which would otherwise develop skin cancer.
"We were quite surprised that the DNA's repair process also resulted in a number of chemical by-products, which have never been seen before," Wille said.
"Our plan is to study these products to understand if the DNA repair enzyme could be incorporated into a safe and effective method for skin cancer prevention."
Kangaroos are not immune from skin cancer but their special repair enzyme, which is also present in some bacteria and fish, gives their skin an additional protection that humans lack.
"As summer approaches, excessive exposure to the sun's harmful UV (ultraviolet) light will see more than 400,000 Australians diagnosed with skin cancer," Feketeova said.
