eric cantona - c or d

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remember this temperamental fellow?

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Who doesn't?

http://www.esatclear.ie/~ash/Kung-Fu.jpg

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

classic but over-rated

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Classique!

NickB (NickB), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i agree with stevem.

he typified the period where english clubs came back into europe after the heysel ban, and were lagging way behind. he was a 10/10 premiership player, but he was only a 5 or 6 in international terms. he did not do much in big european club and international matches.

man united's younger players outgrew him, and became international stars and feared outside the premiership in a way cantona wasn't.

how does he really compare to the maldinis, zidanes, stoichkovs and nedveds of the era? not terribly favourable imo.

my scepticism is probably a reaction to the excessive worship. i liked eric.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

i think early retirement enhanced his reputation quite a bit. if you're going to become fat and lazy you may as well do it in nike adverts and beach soccer, rather than in the premiership like gascoigne did.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

in the end, he didn't actually score that many goals for a striker did he?

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

classic classic classic and this ^^^ would be chaotic and wonderful

Just got offed, Friday, 27 June 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

even more classic than this chap ^^^ formerly claimed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uop5R7E314

keep on, brother

acoleuthic, Friday, 24 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Obviously classic. I read a bio of him earlier in the year. I love how his delight on relocating to England was basically that of an anthropologist discovering a race of noble savages.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 24 December 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

sardine delivery

unw? j.......n (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link

five years pass...

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