MANCHESTER, England — Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was called Friday as a character witness for Ryan Giggs in a court case involving the ex-Premier League footballer.
Giggs is on trial on charges of assault and use of coercive behaviour against an ex-girlfriend.

The 80-year-old Ferguson, who was giving evidence in the courtroom on Day 10 of the trial, said Giggs had a fantastic temperament.
He told the court: To have a career as long as he had in a difficult position, in terms of energy, he fulfilled everything we ever wished for.

Everyone looked at Ryan Giggs as the number one, he added.
Asked by Giggs’ lawyer if he had ever seen his former player lose his temper or become aggressive, Ferguson said: ‘No’.

Ferguson said Giggs was strong enough to take the sharp end of my tongue.
“I used Ryan a lot in the sense of, when I lost my temper about performance I would use Ryan as an example sometimes,” Ferguson said. (ESPN)