Ronaldo has his knickers in a twist!!

[Hedley Lamarr]

SOCCER star Cristiano Ronaldo is not a happy man!

The sports hunk is apparently furious that Vanity Fair magazine put him on the cover in tight underpants with rival player Didier Drogba.

"Ronaldo is freaking out,"  a source told New York Post gossip column Page Six.

"He says he wants to sue Vanity Fair for using his image to promote the issue everywhere.

"Even though this is pretty standard practice in the magazine world, he and his managers insist only they have control of his image and where it can be used.

"But no legal action has been launched, and there are whispers that what really upset Ronaldo was that, having stripped off to his underpants for the shoot in Madrid, he didn't envisage sharing the cover with another player photographed in Milan."