Ryan Giggs once held a young Cristiano Ronaldo up against a wall and threatened him - all because he was drinking a can of coke, according to their former team-mate Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer.
Ronaldo is now heralded as a three-time Ballon d'Or winner and one of the greatest footballers ever to play the game, but he needed to do a lot of maturing during his early days at Manchester United.
With the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane in the Old Trafford changing room, you probably wouldn't have put Ryan Giggs at the top of the list of players likely to terrify one of the squad's youngsters. But according to a story doing the rounds on Twitter, Giggs saw himself as the man to have a few stern word with a teenage Ronaldo.
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Former Premier League striker turned pundit Jan Aage Fjortoft claims to have been told the story by ex-United striker Solsjkaer:
Interesting little anecdote, eh?
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Perhaps Giggs is just more of a Pepsi man.
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Topics: Football, Manchester United, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Ryan Giggs, Cristiano Ronaldo
