Eric Cantona for Manchester United
They called him the King at Old Trafford and with goals like this it’s easy to see why the Mancs (and the travelling hordes up from Kent and Sussex!) loved him.
I have to say he was one of that early breed of Manchester United players in the early to mid 1990s that brought disgust to a young Spurs fan watching the game as he pranced around, collar fashionably up, producing weekly moments of magic and pushing United into that golden era under Alex Ferguson in the 90s.
Howard Wilkinson must still sit at home watching videos of Manchester United with Cantona at his pomp, running riot against Premiership defences and midfields and ask himself how he ever let the mercurial Frenchman leave for just over £1m. Surely one of the best pieces of business in English football history and it had to be United who did it.
Even the brushes with authority, the karate kicks into the crowd and the red cards couldn’t dim the United fans love for Cantona and, always his own man, when he said he was finished with the game, he meant it.
One of the game’s true characters.
(PS. if anyone knows who this was against can they let me know please, I’m thinking it looks like a Nottingham Forest kit but as I’m not sure of the year it’s hard to tell. Cheers.)
Hiya mate
I cant’t watch the clip as my PC here at work is about as much use as Titus Bramble, but from the still picture, it looks like the chip from the edge of the box against Sunderland at Old Trafford.
Cheers
Andy
It is Nottingham Forest as you can see the name of the goalkeeper Perez, so there’s no doubt.
I was @ the match-it was Sunderland, absolutely no doubt about it-it’s a famous Cantona goal/celebration
its against sunderland….they had perez u twat
Against Sunderland @ OT. Sunderland went down that season……… nothing new there then!!!!
Eric cantona is truly one of Man u greatest
Every Manchester United fans knows that goal. Its against Sunderland at OT, f**king genius!
Definately Sunderland!! I remember that game well..It was a period when Brian McClair rarely did something good, but it was his pass in between Eric´s skilfull work that set up Eric. HOW THE HELL COULD YOU PUT “It is Nottingham Forest as you can see the name of the goalkeeper Perez, so there’s no doubt” WHAT A MELON!!
Thanks Man U fans, in my excitement at the goal I hadn’t spotted you could see Lionel Perez’s name on the back of his goalie shirt.
Schoolboy detective error.