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.
Sir Alex Ferguson was famed for his 'hairdryer' treatment in criticising Manchester United stars
Ferguson would tear into his team whether they lost a derby or were about to lift a league title
Former United defender Rio Ferdinand lifted the lid on one such example this week when he recalled how his former manager 'destroyed' star striker Ruud van Nistelrooy following a derby defeat at Manchester City in 2002.
Ferdinand recalled how Fergie tore into the Dutchman after he had come back into the dressing room at full-time with a Manchester City shirt, vowing how he would never play for United again if he ever repeated the act.
But how does Van Nistelrooy's grilling compare to other famous Fergie rants at his side over the years? Sportsmail looks back at some of the former United boss's most memorable hairdryer moments.
Rio Ferdinand (left) has recently recalled a derby defeat at Manchester City in 2002 (above) as an episode where Ferguson 'destroyed' striker Ruud van Nistelrooy
The incident came after the duo's (pictured above in a 2005 friendly) first Manchester derby
A look back at Cristiano Ronaldo's first spell at Manchester United shows a road to glory in his rise to arguably the best player in the world following three successive Premier League titles as well as a Champions League winners' medal.
Many United fans though will remember those days were far from certain during the Portuguese's early years at Old Trafford.
A relative unknown after signing from Sporting Lisbon in the summer of 2003 at 17-years-old, Ronaldo showed much potential as a skilful winger, yet often left his team-mates frustrated at his lack of final product - often in favour of one step-over too many.
It appeared even Fergie was once done with Ronaldo's tricks - reducing the teenager to tears in front of his team-mates.
Cristiano Ronaldo eventually became a world class player under Ferguson's management
In his book Cristiano Ronaldo: The Biography, journalist and broadcaster Guillem Balague writes: 'In the dressing room, Ferguson could not contain himself: "Who do you think you are? Trying to play by yourself? You'll never be a player if you do this!"
'Ronaldo began to cry. The other players left him be. "He needed to learn," said Ferdinand.
'That was a message from the team, not just from Ferguson: everyone thought he needed to learn.
'After the telling off and a few tears, the Portuguese's reaction was the same as always: keep working in training to improve.
'Predictably, the group responded by winding him up. "He's crying in the changing room again! Cry-baby, cry-baby!".
But even he wasn't immune to Fergie's criticisms during his early days at Old Trafford
Ronaldo of course was almost a like-for-like replacement in the summer of 2003 for David Beckham who had left to join Real Madrid and their 'Galacticos' project.
It should have been seen as a big loss for United, but Sir Alex Ferguson would likely have greeted news of the deal by dusting his hands off and a wave of good riddance.
The pair had dramatically fallen out after an FA Cup defeat by Arsenal in 2003, when the pair clashed in front of stunned team-mates after Fergie kicked a stray boot at the then England captain which struck him above the eye.
In the days after, Beckham made no attempt to cover the injury and it proved to be the final straw for the United boss in Beckham's future at Old Trafford.
Ferguson recalled in his autobiography how the row had started because Beckham's work rate had dropped amid 'rumours of a flirtation between Real Madrid and David's camp.'
He wrote: 'He was about 12 feet from me. Between us lay a row of boots. David swore. I moved towards him, and as I approached I kicked a boot.
'It hit him right above the eye. Of course he rose to have a go at me and the players stopped him. "Sit down," I said. "You've let your team down. You can argue as much as you like."
'The next day the story was in the press. In public an Alice band highlighted the damage inflicted by the boot. It was in those days that I told the board David had to go.'
David Beckham was left with a notable cut above his eye after Ferguson kicked a boot at him
Despite his importance in the central midfield to Manchester United in the first half of the 1990s, Paul Ince would have likely already had his card marked by Ferguson having been known as the 'Guvnor'.
And Fergie wasted little opportunity to let one of his star men know who was the real boss at Old Trafford.
Ince recalled this 1993 tale to talkSPORT: 'We played Norwich away at Carrow Road and this was a time when they were going for the title at the same time as us.
'I think we were winning 3-0 or 3-1 and we got to the 92nd minute and I've got the ball in the middle of the park, I looked up and didn't see anything, so I went on a mazy run, beat one, a little step over and beat two but then lost the next one.
'They went back down the pitch and nearly scored. The whistle goes at the end of the game and we are patting people on the back and giving high fives and saying, "what a great result, lads".
'Ferguson comes in [to the changing room] and goes absolutely ballistic at me saying: "Who do you think you are? You ain't no Maradona or Pele."
Paul Ince discovered there would only be one 'Guvnor' following a clash with Ferguson
'I said: "Gaffer, what are you on about?"
'He said: "You've lost the ball in the 92nd minute and they could have scored."
'I said: "But they didn't gaffer and we won 3-1."
'He starts coming up to me in my face and I'm thinking: "I'm not having this". So I stand up, we are face to face, and he is shouting and as he is shouting I've got spit going in my eye.
'I'm trying to talk back to him but every time I open my mouth the spit goes in so I thought I would keep my mouth shut.
'[Assistant manager] Brian Kidd stepped in between the two of us and we didn't speak for five days.
'We played head tennis on the Thursday and he was the referee. It gets to 9-9, [Steve Bruce] heads the ball up in the air and I do an overhead kick, it hits the line to win the game.
'Sir Alex goes: "Out."
'Because we weren't speaking at the time I could not say anything. I looked at him, he said: "Out, game over, they won."
'As I walked away he said: "There's only one Guvnor around here, Incey, and it ain't you."'
Ince (bottom right) was crucial to United in the first half of the 1990s, pictured above close to Ferguson (second top right) celebrating the club's Premier League title victory in 1993
According to Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona was one of the very few United players never to have been on the end of a severe Fergie tear-down, and that includes the
