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Football, and art. Éric Cantona - legend, maverick, troubled artist or just plain trouble - never saw a need to make a distinction between the two. For all the heat and noise surrounding his infamous Crystal Palace 'kung-fu kick', it is for the sheer exuberant beauty of his play that Éric Cantona is chiefly remembered by English football fans.From driving Guy Roux's exciting Auxerre side of the late 1980s to the captaincy of the French national side, it was nonetheless in England that this unique footballing artist finally found a stage big enough to appreciate him.At Leeds United he transformed the team into title contenders, but became a true talisman at Manchester United, where to this day fans sing of 'King Éric' and voted him United's 'Player of the 20th Century'. And yet the effortless style of Cantona's play could not hide a darker side to his temperament. In his own words, 'I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes, this fire does harm.'Leading French football journalist Philippe Auclair has interviewed over 200 protagonists in Cantona's career - some of whom have spoken for the first time on the record - searching for the man behind the myth. Marrying a

Who reads Eric Cantona?

Author

Philippe Auclair [Auclair, Philippe]

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330511858

Category

biography

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (2,140 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14