Robin van Persie has lifted the lid on how Louis van Gaal slapped him at the World Cup – and then dealt him a knock-out blow at Manchester United.
Van Persie, 36, revealed how he got an angry cuff on the back of the head by his boss when he refused to be substituted during Holland's quarter-final shoot-out victory over Costa Rica in 2014.
When the pair later linked up at Old Trafford, the former Arsenal striker found himself on the receiving end of an even bigger shock when his manager told him his time at United was up.
The two men made up their differences last year when Van Persie invited Van Gaal to his testimonial game for Feyenoord. But in a new book about the 68-year-old's coaching career called 'LVG – The Manager and the Total
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