The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Icon, rental and retail A weird mixture of the standard Ken Loach film (working class struggling against deprivation, injustice and crime) with standard Hollywood fare (problems magically solved by lead actor's hero). Where Woody Allen had a Bogart simulacrum do this in Play It Again, Sam, postman Steve Evets has his football hero, Eric Cantona. And here, he gets the real Cantona, now a bearded 43-year-old...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
And finally, the list of Thomas Bohnet . He's a dj, a promotor, a cd-compiler and a nice guy. Pictured is Keren Ann (no. 4). More lists? See here . 1 Benjamin Biolay - Rose Kennedy (2002) Biolay`s fantastic debut, with songs between Chanson and Pop. Elegant and with international flair. 2 Noir Desir - Des visages des figures (2001) The most important rockband. With the big hit Le vent nous portera....
Fantastic Journal (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
(Photo: George Bernard Shaw on his Starley tricycle) An outburst on Twitter about crap museums has elicited the sad news that the Isle of Wight waxworks ( officially called Brading : The Experience ) is about to close. VentnorBlog has some lovely photos of the various extremely weird exhibits inside, a few of which are included here. I went to the museum mid-way through a three day camping holiday...
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Ryan Giggs says he's a different animal to former Manchester United teammate Eric Cantona. While Cantona gave the game away at 31, Giggs, now 36, has no plans to hang up the boots. read more
Off The Post (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Fans turn up wearing masks that don’t feature Eric Cantona’s face These Peterborough fans obviously worked out that the swine flu outbreak at Blackburn, plus the official warning that spitting is spreading the virus, and the fact that they could find themselves close to El-Hadji Diouf meant that they were at substantial risk of getting sick! [...]
Only Just Offside... (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
So Liverpool managed to win 2-0 in spite of my backing. And a gritty game it was, too. Mind you, at the beginning of the second half I commented to some fellow pub watchers that if I'd wagered on this one it would have been for a nil-nil draw. As Fernando Torres struck, magnificently, I thought to myself: "That's why I don't bet!" The pre-match festivities saw the Anfield pitch festooned...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
An occasion that had begun with angry Liverpool fans staging a protest march against their clubs owners ended with a precious victory for Liverpool, as Fernando Torres and David Ngog scored the second-half goals that brought an end to a run of four consecutive defeats. Torres shook off Rio Ferdinand to send a fierce drive into the roof of the net in the 65th minute, rewarding a confident period of...
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has happily compared Dimitar Berbatov to legend Eric Cantona. read more
republik of mancunia (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Take a picture of you wearing your Cantona mask today, wherever you may be, and win yourself a copy of Andy Mitten’s new Manchester United book, “Glory Glory – Man Utd in the 90’s” Mitten has spoken to several United players, including Eric Cantona, Andy Cole, Lee Sharpe, and Nicky Butt to give behind the scenes [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Northwich Victoria 3-0 FC United of Manchester At the Victoria Ground, tucked behind Northwich Asphalt, a little piece of football history stubbornly failed to materialise. This was the day that Football Club of Manchester, the grassroots club formed by disaffected Manchester United supporters, imagined that they might reach the FA Cup first round for the first time. Instead, the game turned against...
republik of mancunia (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
In the summer, RoM offered you the opportunity to win a copy of Philippe Auclair’s excellent book about Eric Cantona, ‘Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King’, which was won by Ged Hanley. The biography documents Cantona’s life from his time in France to his departure from Manchester United, describing the glory, the mistakes, the combat [...]
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
It's been a long wait, but it's payback time for the Red Devils
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
• Manchester United fans plan to wear Eric Cantona masks • Owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett will attend Anfield match Manchester United supporters have a trick up their sleeves for tomorrow's visit to Liverpool that does not involve hidden beach balls. Twelve years after the Kop proclaimed "Au revoir Cantona, come back when you've won 18", their hated rivals and now equals as...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Man United supporters planning to don Eric Cantona masks.
SoccerLens (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Why did Eric Cantona start wearing his collar up? Which player got so drunk after a title-winning party he wet himself in a taxi? Why did Andrew Cole and Teddy Sheringham fall out? And which international star burnt his wedding tackle on a scalding hot tea urn?
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