Ryan Giggs has revealed there were just four players who escaped Sir Alex Ferguson's infamous 'hairdryer' treatment through their Manchester United careers.
Ferguson's 26-year Old Trafford career saw him inflict his furious tirades at countless world class players, from David Beckham to Wayne Rooney, Patrice Evra to Ruud van Nistelrooy.
The trophy-laden Scot cultivated bullet-proof respect in his dressing room, but spared a lucky few from the hairdryer.
'There were 3 or 4 players that he never had a go at. Cantona was one – Bryan Robson, Roy Keane and Cristiano Ronaldo. They were all in their own ways match winners,' Giggs told beIn Sport.
'They did the stuff on the pitch, so he never felt (like he had to). Eric, there were some games where Eric didn't do anything. He didn't score, he wasn't running about like a Tevez or a Wayne Rooney, he didn't have any impact.
'But he knew sooner or later he would come good. We would be sat in the dressing room thinking he's got to have a go at him, he's got to have a pop at him because he didn't do anything today.
'But the next week he'd score the winner or he would produce a moment of magic so he handled the big names really well as long as they were doing it on the pitch, he handled them in a different way'
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