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Not many managers can say they have got one over on fiery West Ham boss Sam Allardyce - and even fewer would admit it.

Sir Alex Ferguson reckons he invented the tradition of managers sharing a bottle of wine after games as a mark of respect.

And the former Manchester United boss revealed he once fooled the former Bolton manager into drinking Ribena instead of a fine red.

“My 25th year at United, Sam Allardyce bought me a 1986 [Chateau] Latour, the year I came to United. His kit manager gave it to me on the Saturday morning, and I said, ‘I’m going to play a trick here’, so I opened it up and put a bottle of Ribena in," he told the Telegraph

“So Sam comes in after the game and I say, ‘Thanks very much for the wine, Sam, it’s really very generous of you’. He said, ‘Well, you go home and enjoy that’. I said, ‘No, I want to share it with you’. So I open it up and I go, ‘What’s this, Sam?’

“He bolts out that door, honestly, like a wild man, screaming for his kit manager. And when he came back in I had the bottle opened and I was pouring the glasses. It was a fantastic moment. I had to get him.”