MANCHESTER UNITED stars Ryan Giggs, Darren Fletcher and Chris Smalling followed up their Champions League loss to Olympiakos in midweek with another humiliating defeat... to Super League trio Kevin Sinfield, Ryan Bailey and Rangi Chase in a Foxy Bingo sponsored cross-bar challenge.
Foxy Bingo signed a two-year extension to its sponsorship deal with the First Utility Super League and celebrated by having mascot Foxy coach Sinfield, Bailey and Chase to victory over United's finest.
Giggs famously played rugby league as a youngster, even representing Wales at youth level and showed his prowess with the oval ball from 10 yards out.
But Fletcher and Smalling couldn't match their elder and United fell even further behind from greater distances before closing the gap to 4-3.
The footballers were then forced to look on as Foxy presented the rugby league stars with the silverware.
And given the way United's season has gone up to this point, it is a feeling that the trio may have to get used to.