Former teammates and current Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed the time he had to stand up for himself in a training session by telling the Cork man where to go.

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“Me and Roy are good friends – we speak a lot. But we did have some fights, if you can call them that,” Solskjaer told Four Four Two.

“I ended up telling him to eff off, because the only way he could respect you was if you stood up for yourself.

“There was one period of four or five weeks when I was in Roy’s team every single day in training and he shouted and shouted, because he demands 100 per cent from the ones he believes in.

“So I went up to Steve McClaren and said: ‘F**king hell, Steve, I’m in the same team every day.’

“He said: ‘Oh, you’ve noticed! It’s a mental development for you to stand up for yourself against Roy. You have done, so you’ve passed’.”