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Making Cristiano Ronaldo CRY, kicking a boot into David Beckham's eye... and berating the Man Utd team before lifting the league title! Fergie's most infamous hairdryer moments after Rio Ferdinand revealed he 'destroyed' Ruud van Nistelrooy

Playing for Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson was the pinnacle for many players during the legendary manager's 27 years at the club.

But while there was plenty of glamour and winners' medals to take home during his tenure at Old Trafford before his 2013 retirement, for the vast majority there was also no escaping Fergie's infamous 'hairdryer treatment'.

Coined by former United striker Mark Hughes, it's now part of the football lexicon as an example of when Ferguson would erupt into a verbal (and as we will see, sometimes physical) rage at his players from anything as damaging as a derby defeat to a trivial moment in stoppage time - and very few escaped it.