The day Cristiano Ronaldo learnt a lesson with Manchester United at Leeds

"There's only one Alfie Haaland," chorused the Leeds fans. At the scene of the crime, Roy Keane settled an old case.

Six years after he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament with an attempted hack at Haaland, Keane rose to score the winner at Elland Road in October 2003, the last time the ground held a league fixture between Uniteds Leeds and Manchester with matchgoers present.

Eighteen-and-a-half years on, United and their following will return on Sunday with Mike Phelan in the dugout and Cristiano Ronaldo in the starting XI once more. Ronaldo was 18 on his last and only appearance at Leeds on a day Sir Alex Ferguson had intended to rest him, only Ryan Giggs was unwell and watched on from the stands.

Ronaldo was two months into his United career and still had those mustard highlights that dangled over his brow like a toddler playing with spaghetti. He had started four times and the hatchet men had started sharpening their studs, with the Charlton full-back Radostin Kishishev particularly unwelcoming.

Against Leeds, Ronaldo was pitted against the agricultural full-back Gary Kelly, memorably outpaced by Giggs at Elland Road 10 seasons earlier. Remarkably, Kelly was still not 30 when throughout his career he seemed to be permanently on the cusp of it.

Ronaldo lined up on the left, with Darren Fletcher the functional right-sided starter. In the fifth minute, the adventurous Mikael Silvestre, successfully reinvented as a centre half next to Rio Ferdinand, strode into the Leeds half and played the ball through their loose midfield and defence for Ronaldo in the left-hand channel. Kelly was already flagging and clumsily upended Ronaldo, only the referee Graham Poll shook his head.

Kelly gave Ronaldo an avuncular pat on the