Sir Alex Ferguson's “malignant” management capital would end up in prison if he was still in the Dugout, according to Patrice Evra.
Evra, 43, saw the fiery shot up close and played between him in Manchester United for seven and a half years between 2006 and 2013.
And that meant that he was exposed to the way Ferguson started managing his players – including the famous hairdryer treatment.
But Evra thinks in current football, the methods of Fergie would cross the border and see him in trouble with the law – after losing the number of players he has reduced to tears.
The former left back said to the SDS podcast: “If Ferguson was coaching now, he would probably end up in prison.
“There is no way in which Ferguson would not be in prison with what he would do.
“You know how many players I saw crying because he gave them the hairdryer, threw boots – he was bad.”
The most controversial incident of Ferguson came after a FA Cup defeat against Arsenal in 2003 when he kicked a boot in David Beckham, so that the captain of England left just above his eye.
But he was just as passionate and also lost his patience about so -called friendly competitions.
Evra remembered for a while when Fergie was tearing in a young Danny Welbeck in Saudi Arabia.
He explained: “Wayne Rooney gave the ball to Welbeck, but he missed the penalty.
“We lost the game, but it was a friendly, like a 45 -minute game.
“When we came back to the dressing room, Ferguson [shouted] “Welbeck!”
“Me and Welbeck were in the toilet, he had a puddle, but Ferguson screamed.
“” Who the F *** do you think you are, comes in the first team and takes a penalty? “
“I had something like:” Boss, it's just a friendly game. “
“He said,” F *** the friendly game. “
The approach of Ferguson – no matter how controversial and hard it was – clearly had the desired effect.
He won 38 trophies for his 26 years as Old Trafford -Baas, including 13 prominent competitions, five FA cups and two champions competitions.
But the attitude he introduced to his United players, especially the senior members of the team, led to a brutal treatment of some teammates.
The shocking failure of Jamie Carragher in Nani in Anfield in 2011 left the Portuguese wing player with a bleeding cut over his shin.
But the will of Paul Scholes is said to have said “F *** that” and refused to support Nani when they saw him cry on the floor.
“We were bad people … we didn't care”
According to the Frenchman, Ferguson rumbled: “I hope your leg is broken, a united player cannot cry in Anfield.”
Evra added: “We were bad people.
“I want to apologize to all young people who trained with us. We were animals.
“After the game we waited for the next day when we were going to kill Nani, to tell you how filthy we were, we didn't care.
“If you bleed and you cry, you're done, you don't make part of us.
“Ferguson had to give him a week off to recover from it because we waited to kill him.
“Even now in the United WhatsApp group we still cried that photo from Nani in Anfield.”