Sir Alex Ferguson was famous for his man-management skills at Manchester United – but the Scot could still lose his temper at any moment.
The manager was never afraid to speak his mind and clashed with several of United’s big-name stars during his 27 years at Old Trafford.
Here are seven United players who have all felt the wrath of Ferguson and his infamous hairdryer treatment.
Roy Keane
Ferguson and Keane are two of the biggest characters in football and eventually their personalities clashed.
The midfielder sent shock waves around Old Trafford when slagging off his team-mates during an interview with MUTV after an infamous 4-1 loss to Middlesbrough.
Ferguson showed no mercy by stripping him of the captaincy and that interview ultimately signalled the end of Keane’s United career.
Time hasn’t healed any wounds and they have both reignited the feud by criticising each other in the media on several different occasions.
“I wouldn’t forgive Ferguson,” Keane told Off The Ball in 2019. “The media spin, how I apparently upset everybody, it was all nonsense.
“Ferguson came out afterwards and said he always did what was best by Manchester United. Nonsense.”
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Jaap Stam
Stam enjoyed incredible success in his three years at United, winning the treble and a hat-trick of league titles, but that didn’t stop him falling foul of Ferguson.
The manager was reportedly enraged by Stam’s autobiography, in which he claimed that he had been poached by United and Ferguson had ordered his players to dive in European matches.
Unsurprisingly, the defender was shipped off to Lazio a few weeks later.
David Beckham
The pair originally had a father-son-like relationship as Beckham rose through the academy to become a key part of Ferguson’s United team.
However, the United manager had grown tired of Beckham’s celebrity lifestyle and felt that it overshadow his job as a professional footballer.
In the wake of a 2-0 FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Arsenal in February 2003, an enraged Ferguson kicked a boot in the dressing room and it struck Beckham just above his left eye.
While most managers would apologise, Ferguson was furious with Beckham because the story had been leaked to the…
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