Quote Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish View Post
Excluding Internationals, when he retired at 31 Giggs had played 672 'league matches'.
At 31 Bales has played 377.

Those stats represent 15yr periods for both players, so Giggs has played on average nearly 20 more games a season than Bale.
Giggs was born in 1973, and turned 31 in November of 04/05. By the end 03/4, from adding up on wikipedia, he had played 415 league games. Add on maybe 15 for those few months and that's only a difference of about three games a season.