An award-winning biography of the Notts paceman, an insight into Eric Cantona's world and reflections on boxing's grubby past are among the reads of the year Sports writing is a curious discipline. There are few fields where so often the weight and import of fat, expensive, hardback editions are given over to the mundanity of a sequential match-by-match career description from which all the scandal,...
Most of us would be familiar with the image below of Manchester United player Eric Cantona kung-fuing Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons in 1995. Now...
In an infamous incident in January 1995, football legend Eric Cantona is pulled away after launching a kung fu style attack on Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons. But who’s that watching the arresting sight from the stands at Selhurst Park?
Diego Maradona, football coach, 49 ON HAVING A BALL TO KICK It's the most beautiful thing that football can give one (1981) ON WATCHING BOCA JUNIORS I feel like my chest burns. It's like sleeping with Julia Roberts (2006) ON BEING ORDERED TO PAY MAINTENANCE FOR HIS SIX-YEAR-OLD SON, DIEGO JNR They can order me to pay him money, but they can never order me to love him (1991) ON HAVING CHE GUEVARA'S...
Laurent Blanc is flavour of the month at the moment after winning the league with Bordeaux and currently standing top of his Champions League group, which contains Juventus and Bayern Munich. Back in May, RoM looked at the reasons why Blanc should replace Sir Alex Ferguson, but Eric Cantona wants him to be the next manager [...]
Manchester United hero Eric Cantona has sensationally suggested he would have punched Thierry Henry if he was Irish, after the striker's infamous handball set up France's winning goal in their 2-1 aggregate play-off win over the Republic of Ireland...
Every man and his dog has been asked what they think of Thierry Henry disgraceful cheating this week which denied Ireland a place in the World Cup. Eric Cantona is the latest to give his opinion on Henry and seems to imply if he had been playing, and if was Irish, he would have kicked the [...]
Manchester United hero Eric Cantona has sensationally suggested he would have punched Thierry Henry if he was Irish, in response to the striker's handball.
Former France international and Manchester United legend Eric Cantona launched his singular type of blast at both Raymond Domenech and Thierry Henry after his national team reached the World Cup at the expense of Ireland, and, in the case of Henry, by foul means rather than fair.
London: Football legend Eric Cantona has said that he would have hit striker Thierry Henry if he was one of the Republic of Ireland players cheated of their World Cup spot.The former France and
Football legend Eric Cantona has said that he would have hit striker Thierry Henry if he was one of the Republic of Ireland players cheated of their World Cup spot.
That garlic reeking cheat Thierry Henry in a pathetic attempt to deflect some of the anger towards him over the cheating row has said that he believes in the interest of fair play the game against the Republic of Ireland should be replayed. Interesting that the frog only suggested this after the games Governing body emphatically stated a replay is impossible as the rules of the game do not allow it,...
There are times when an event makes a huge impact on your life, completely unexpectedly. That night at Selhurst Park was one. Me and my dad were in the opposite stand, but knew that what happened was momentous. Eric had gone from legend to God. Living in South East London at the time, among fantastic people in Plumstead which was Charlton territory, Palace fans were famously detested as whining whingers...
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