Wayne Rooney will be serving 100 hours of community service after he plead guilty to drink driving on Monday.
The Everton striker has been banned from driving for two years after he admitted the offence in court.
He has also been fined two weeks' salary by the Toffees but the public punishment will be the most public penance for his offence.
The 31-year-old was stopped by police while driving a black Volkswagen Beetle in Wilmslow because the car’s tail light was out, reports the Manchester Evening News.
His breath reading was 104mg per 100ml of blood with the legal limit being 80mg.
The court heard the Everton striker voluntarily stopped the car, but an aggravating factor was there was a passenger in the vehicle.
The Volkswagen belonged to Laura Simpson - a woman the court heard he had met in the Bubble Room bar in Alderley Edge on a night out.
Immediately after the case, where Rooney was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £85 victim surcharge, he went straight to meet with the Probation Service.
It ruled he was eligible for unpaid work despite his lofty profile. But now the question is what form will the community work take and where will the probation service send him? Will he end up litter picking or painting a park wall?
There’s a significant chance he will be asked to do charity work - something familiar to the father-of-three, according to his solicitor, Michael Rainford. The lawyer stressed to the court what his client does for others off the pitch.
Mr Rainford said this includes working with youngsters at Alder Hey Hospital and Claire House Children’s Hospice, helping the NSPCC and being involved with both the Everton Foundation and Manchester United Foundation as well as his own.
As he waits to hear what lies in store Rooney will be aware the likelihood is the unpaid work will be as far away from the public eye as possible because of the high level of media interest.
A Probation Service source said another factor is the risk they themselves pose and this can rule out certain options.
The source said: “In his case he is an exceptionally high profile offender so he will have to be carefully placed to ensure he can comply with the order and not run the risk of adverse media attention.
“Community payback can be anything from volunteering in a charity shop, to litter picking or painting for a local project, and it will depend on what arrangements are available.”
Of course Rooney, is far from the first footballer to face community service.
And previous stars’ treatment gives some clue as to what England’s and Manchester United’s all-time record scorer may be doing.
Charity shop work
Another former Manchester United player Danny Simpson, who now plays for Leicester, spent 300 hours working in a charity shop after being convicted of assault.
In 2015 the full-back, 30, worked unpaid at Age UK’s shop in Monton where he helped sort clothes and donated books.
He also famously turned up for that role in an expensive Lamborghini, which was seen parked nearby.
Litter picker
Fellow Merseysider Joey Barton was convicted of assaulting a team mate at Manchester City and found himself carrying out community work in 2009.
As well as a six-month playing ban he ended up picking up litter at the Newcastle Falcons rugby ground as he was a Newcastle United player at the time.
It was part of 200 hours community service and Barton, now 35, was pictured carrying out the task in his bright orange community payback waistcoat.
Football coaching
Perhaps the most obvious option is coaching youngsters in the sport he loves and this was what Manchester United legend Eric Cantona was tasked with.
He'd originally been sentenced to two weeks in jail following the infamous ‘kung-fu kick’ on a Crystal Palace fan in January 1995.
But the punishment was reduced to 120 hours unpaid work and Cantona carried out 60 two hour sessions coaching children at Manchester United’s training ground.
A total of 732 children benefited from this and the Frenchman was also banned from playing until late September 1995.
United had originally banned him for the rest of the 1994-95 season and this was then increased by the FA.
Gardening
Scottish striker Kevin Kyle completed 120 hours unpaid work back in 2007, when he was a Coventry City player.
Now 36, he had been convicted of assault and was originally sent to work at a school for disabled children.
But he then switched to gardening work completing such tasks as weeding, cutting down trees and painting fences to pay back his debt to society.