Cantona, Brighton Legend.

[smudge]

Taken from The Guardians "Fiver" today. Couldn't help insert those 2 words in there.

And Eric Cantona reckons hurtling over the advertising hoardings and laying into a gobby PALACE fan was a "dream" for BRIGHTON supporters. "Kicking a hooligan is not the kind of thing you see every day. It's a kind of freedom for them," boomed Cantona.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

There was a wonderful 'Did I say that?' in the Observer a fair while ago.

Edit: Ah yes...

On scoring

There is nothing more paradoxical, nor more breathtaking, than a goal in front of a crowd which is waiting for it (1993)

On the football season

Peaks of happiness and depths of pain - just like the chain of mountains in the Alps where I am going to rest and paint (1993)

On actress Rachida Brakni, his second wife

I look at her in the eyes and I find the only mirror in which I want to look at me (2009)

On poetry

I will never find any difference between Pele's pass to Carlos Alberto in the final of the 1970 World Cup and the poetry of the young Rimbaud (1993)

On the time to get in line to walk out on to the pitch

Before time is not the time; nor is it time after the time (1993)

On Nicolas Sarkozy

Le Pen with a mask (2005)

At the press conference after he'd kung-fu kicked a Crysial Palace spectator

When the seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much (1995)

On his early days at Montpellier FC

Our mission was to interpret The Magic Flute, every Saturday (1993)

On music

Wolfgang has been a great friend for many years (2008)

On philosophy

I've read a lot of philosophy on Page Three of The Sun (1995)

On the after-life

After his first training session in Heaven, George Best turned the head of God, who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team. George Best, that is, not God (2005)

On his film career

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself (2006)

On the French national coach, Henri Michel

I am not far from thinking that he is a bag of shit (1998)

On his psychoanalyst

He advised me not to sign for Marseilles and recommended that I should go to England (1993)

On his first game for an English team [Leeds]

I stuck a fine banderille in the neck of Luton (1993)

On his favourite memory

I have a lot of good moments, but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan (2007)

 

[colinz]

Good player that he was, but really just a pretentious pratt IMHO.
He would have been better off philosophising about what it is that makes someone a football hooligan.
You know what I mean, look at things from a more existential angle. Oh f*** now I'm beginning to sound like him.

 

[smudge]

Good player that he was, but really just a pretentious pratt IMHO.
He would have been better off philosophising about what it is that makes someone a football hooligan.
You know what I mean, look at things from a more existential angle. Oh f*** now I'm beginning to sound like him.

As Gus would say...Ees complicated!

 

[pottert]

The fact that he kicked the shit out of a palace fan while playing in a game does it for me,but for a player who played
For utd for just a few seasons but has legendary status like best/charlton & giggs says everything about the impact he
had.

 

[Jimbo.GRFC]

Taken from The Guardians "Fiver" today. Couldn't help insert those 2 words in there.

And Eric Cantona reckons hurtling over the advertising hoardings and laying into a gobby PALACE fan was a "dream" for BRIGHTON supporters. "Kicking a hooligan is not the kind of thing you see every day. It's a kind of freedom for them," boomed Cantona.

Dare I suggest this as a song at Falmer..........

Cantona you are a superstar, a super.. super star
and when it comes to palace, we know that their are s""t
and when the palace fan is in your face he deserves to get it.

Oh, I was born under a Brighton Flag !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48RmW5EKiY

 

[Binney on acid]

Mercurial. A complete & utter hero. I treasure the autographs that I obtained when he played beach football down here about 8 or 9 years ago.

 

[Norman Potting]

Whatever you may think of him I think it is safe to say that he is not quite like your stereotypical thick footballer (apologies to the many footballers who aren't thick).

Perhaps a thread should be started of "footballers who aren't thick". Pat Nevin springs to mind, also Steve Heighway and I recall from his bio that Gary Nelson was set to go to Loughborough Uni. and thought that he would probably end up as a p.e. teacher but fortunately decided to take the pro football route instead.

 

[Braders]

Meh..... he was still a f**king Manc though , but it proves we CAN be heroes , just for one day

 

[bhaexpress]

He was a great player but well and truly up himself as well. He had a very nasty temper as many of his fellow professionals can bear testament to.

 

[philsussex]

Palace fans getting their knickers in a bit of a twist over his comments

Cantona kicked spectator to 'make fans happy' - CPFC BBS

 

[chez]

As I've said before Cantona is one of the biggest wankers ever to play football and up there with the likes of Maradona and Norman Whiteside in my most hated list.

Cantona = pure scum.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Sorry to pee on everyone's parade but Gordon Strachan hit the nail on the head with Cantona and his quotes. Cantona was not that bright and was a bit of a pseud when it came to philosophy/poetry. French telly in the early 90s used to have a Spitting Image type programme where they ripped the piss out of Cantona and his affectations. Jean Pierre Papin was shown as his even more thick sidekick. Fortunately for Eric, having a sexy French accent seems to cover a multitude of sins. He would often misquote famous philosophers and when challenged blame a poor grasp of English. He now seems a bit more clued up and may have studied it a bit now but back in the day, he was blagging it.

My favourite story of Cantona's though was apparently a Man U fanzine reported that Cantona had said his hero was Rimbaud, the famous poet. The French pronunciation is "Rambo". Poor old Eric was inundated with posters and pictures of Sylvester Stallone when he got to Old Trafford.

 

[smudge]

Palace fans getting their knickers in a bit of a twist over his comments

Cantona kicked spectator to 'make fans happy' - CPFC BBS

That thread sums up Palace. Jesus, some of the remarks. All because they were made to look very silly indeed.

Also, some people getting very serious about his intellectual worth etc. He kicked a Palace fan, end of!

 

[chez]

That thread sums up Palace. Jesus, some of the remarks. All because they were made to look very silly indeed.

Also, some people getting very serious about his intellectual worth etc. He kicked a Palace fan, end of!

He played for Manure, he'd of had to a hell of a lot more than kicking a Palace fan to make me not hate him.