Looking for Eric

[Mendoza]

Anyway going back to the film, it wasn't great and would have worked without Cantona in it. Was great seeing footage from 95/96 era but not the greatest film.
First half was pretty boring but ended well

Itvwas like a two hour long episode of Shameless without the humour and sex. Not a rubbish film by any means but not a classic. Cantona himself was hard to understand, the acting wasn't great, but still enjoyable enough entertainment

 

[Garage_Doors]

seeing Eric Cantona regularly smoking a spliff pretty much made up for it.

I don't get that, watching Eric Cantona regularly smoking a spliff was worth paying £7.50 for

 

[sam86]

I don't get that, watching Eric Cantona regularly smoking a spliff was worth paying £7.50 for

I wasn't being 100% serious.

 

[Garage_Doors]

I wasn't being 100% serious.

oh, red arrows that one then.

 

[Brovion]

Cantona didn't kill Paul Nixon. However, his violence set the scene for Moan Utd fans to then ambush, and deliberately kill an innocent Palace fan. The Palace fan getting kicked and the subsequent death of another fan at the next game are way more strongly linked than your turd analogy with microsoft and apple, which aren't as strongly linked.

Anyone who glorifies Cantona's actions is absolute scum. I've heard Man Utd fans comment on how cool it was, and usually after I bring them up on their idiocy, they admit it's not really a laughing matter. He's a violent thug. It's not just that incident, it's others where he showed what a nasty piece of work he is aswell.

Pretty much everyone admits Joey Barton is a nasty little thug, so I don't understand why Cantona gets so much slack. Ah yes I remember, it's "becoz he kiked dat Palarse innit lolz"

Yes yes yes. Totally agree. Cantona was a thug and as a direct result of his outrageous actions an innocent man died and there was a disatrous earthquake in China. Or something. However you are missing the point which is ..... Cantona kicked a Palace fan. That's pretty much the be-all and end-all as far as we're concerned and does mean he's pretty high up in the 'people we quite like' league.

 

[little al]

Yes yes yes. Totally agree. Cantona was a thug and as a direct result of his outrageous actions an innocent man died and there was a disatrous earthquake in China. Or something. However you are missing the point which is ..... Cantona kicked a Palace fan. That's pretty much the be-all and end-all as far as we're concerned and does mean he's pretty high up in the 'people we quite like' league.

FFS he was a Fulham fan.

 

[Brovion]

FFS he was a Fulham fan.

A minor, irrelevant detail; it's a bit like saying Hitler was really an Austrian not a German. Eric THOUGHT he was a Palace fan when he kicked him and that's good enough for us.

Also, like Charlton, Fulham haven't got any fans, just 'spectators'.

 

[strings]

Because his kicking of a Fulham fan caused the death of a Palace fan (Paul Nixon RIP)

And why is that?

Because some Palace and United fans got in a scrap at a different game of football?

Total nonsense.
Might as well blame Ferguson for picking Cantona, or Richard Shaw for provoking him with his man marking tactics.

Ridiculous short sighted views - but sadly the sort that I've come to expect from Palace supporters. It's always about THEM, they don't see the bigger picture. Must stem from Simon Jordan.

I very rarely agree with Withdean Wanderer (unless he is talking about Doug Loft). However, I think the sentiment of what he said is pretty fair.

What Cantona did to the Palace/Fulham fan was out of order and there was no excuse for his actions. However, to say it is Cantona's fault that a Palace fan got killed is short sighed. I personally would blame the death on the morons that killed him. These morons clearly couldn't distinguish between football and real life. They killed the innocent palace fan, not Cantona.

 

[Southy]

I thought Simmonds was a Palace fan. I remember some interview with him a few years ago when he was bemoaning how he had a life long ban from Selhurst and it had ruined his life.

Also aren't we forgetting here the abuse that Cantona was getting when he snapped. I'm not justifying his actions but there was a sense that the bloke was giving him so much abuse that it was only a matter of time before a player reacted. And why shouldn't they? If I was getting full on abuse as part of my job day in day out, maybe I'd snap. To blame Cantona for the guy getting stabbed is frankly pathetic.

 

[Southy]

And also after a bit of searching on your boards, it appears he subsequently became a Fulham fan after the kick because he was given a lifetime ban from Selhurst, so stop re writing history.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Do Palace have a fan-share scheme with Fulham then - enterprising

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

It's £7.50 to watch a film nowadays!?!?!?! Bloody hell!!!

 

[strings]

It's £7.50 to watch a film nowadays!?!?!?! Bloody hell!!!

I always go for the orange Wednesday / double NUS card option.

:cheepskate:

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

I always go for the orange Wednesday / double NUS card option.

:cheepskate:

So do I!

 

[Da Man Clay]

I've got the Cineworld unlimited pass. Bargain at £11.95 a month.

 

[dolphin123]

He's a f***ing wanker. And it wasn't a Palace fan. He's Fulham.

well he says he is a palace fan from thorten heath, in todays sun.

 

[Silent Bob]

He's a violent thug. It's not just that incident, it's others where he showed what a nasty piece of work he is aswell.

Such as what?
As far as I'm aware he's never stubbed a cigar out in a teenager's eye, or other acts of violence in football and away from it, so that's probably why he's not held in the same contempt as Barton.

 

[Arthur]

well he says he is a palace fan from thorten heath, in todays sun.

And he definitely said he was a Palace fan in the Palace fanzine I read a couple of years back where he had written about his experience of going to Old Trafford the following season..........with Palace!

Definitely Fulham though

 

[The Phoenix]

Also aren't we forgetting here the abuse that Cantona was getting when he snapped. I'm not justifying his actions but there was a sense that the bloke was giving him so much abuse that it was only a matter of time before a player reacted. And why shouldn't they? If I was getting full on abuse as part of my job day in day out, maybe I'd snap. To blame Cantona for the guy getting stabbed is frankly pathetic.

The stand that he performed his flying kick into is an absolute graveyard. I remember sitting there once and getting angry looks when I swore. There's little chance that he was getting much abuse from the majority of the stand. Maybe one or two shouts, but hardly rage inducing. Footballers get it every game and they've never lashed out. Some of the black Palace players in the 70s/80s got horrific racial abuse from Man Utd fans (in particular), which makes anything Simmons could have said pale into complete insignificance, especially since it was the whole crowd joining in, rather than one bloke. Did they ever even react to any of this though? Of course not, because they were professional, and not thugs.

Cantona played shit that day, got angry and took it out on someone at the game. People who are claiming he did it because he wanted to target a Palace fan are talking absolute bollocks. He just fancied kicking someone.

 

[jmsc]

Looking for Erics finest moment.....