Eric Cantona had a violent temper in his active career – it can hardly come as a great shock, if one is interested in football.
most will remember his kung-fu kick against a spectator, which cost the frenchman a quarantine of eight months.
But it was far from the only time that the Cantonas temper struck sparks during the stay of Manchester United in the 1990s, where he was the big star.
In a new book on the French legend open teammates now up for how it was to play together with Eric Cantona.
In the book, called ’King Eric: Portrait of the Artist Who Changed English Football’, describes the first time that Cantona really showed samples of his ’volcanic temper’.
It happened in connection with a Champions League match in 1993 on the away game against Galatasaray.
After the match, which ended 0-0 and sent United out of the tournament, got Eric Cantona a red card for an altercation with an official, and subsequently, he was involved in some uproar in the spillertunnelen, where police was also present. And used heavy-handed methods.
It explains Steve Bruce, who was the captain at that time, in the book, as the Daily Mirror has brought a snippet of.
“at The end of the tunnel was our dressing room, but before we could get to the beach, I saw a cop beat Eric Cantona in the back of my mind,” says Steve Bruce.
Also Roy Keane remembers the incident and what happened afterwards, as the players was reached in safety.
“In the locker room and went to Eric crazy. He was determined to go out and find the evil cop, who had swung his cudgel.”
“Eric was a big, strong guy. He was serious. He insisted that he would beat the f** * * *** to death’.”
“It required the intervention of both the manager, Brian Kidd (assistant coach, red.) and some of the players to hold him back,” says Roy Keane.
The irish midfielder was even known to have a violent temper, but here he durst not hill Eric Cantona up.
“Normally I wouldn’t have backed out of a fight, but even I was not ready for it here. There were a lot of turks out there!,” says Roy Keane.
Eric Cantona played in Manchester United from 1992 to 1997 and stopped most surprising of his career at the age of just 30 years.
In the day, the 53-year-old Cantona as an actor, and he has had a variety of roles in French films, as he participates in the Danish western ‘The Salvation’, in which Mads Mikkelsen has the lead role.
