If you have ever played football at any kind of reasonable standard you'd be well aware when emotions are running high things slip out that wouldn't usually be said. Not condoning what he said but seriously it happens on the pitch.
As to only 4 people being hurt by Ryan Giggs actions? So his parents are ecstatic that their two sons no longer speak? And many other immediate family members are all fine and dandy?
I'd suggest what giggs did may have affected less people but I'd wager the people it did affect were alot more affected than many people around the world chucking in their useless 2 pence.