Eric Cantona Before Manchester United

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  • Initial success at Leeds United was followed by a Manchester United career in which Eric Cantona achieved permanent legend status. But why, when he first came to England, was it to play on trial for Sheffield Wednesday? Why was his initial acquisition by Leeds perceived to be a high-risk move?
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  • @fndthousing
    @fndthousing Pƙed 5 lety +388

    'He went up to each of the three members of the disciplinary board and told them they were an idiot' - beautiful

  • @felixbache5369
    @felixbache5369 Pƙed 5 lety +186

    Cantona is a proper bad boy. Though he is foul-mouthed, aggressive and violent, he never seemed (to me atleast) like a malicious or generally bad person.

  • @manish236
    @manish236 Pƙed 5 lety +137

    As a Liverpool fan, it kills me to see the list of people we passed on signing:
    Ronaldo, Michael Laudrup, Cantona, Dani Alves.
    Glad that we signed up Salah and Van dijk when we got a chance.
    Anyway, there are a few players from our bitter rivals I always respect and admire: Catona, Sir Charlton, Ryan giggs, Rio ferdinand etc.
    Especially Cantona and Giggs in the 90s were tearing teams apart. They used to link up so well, and with Beckham on the right wing swinging in the perfect crosses. The United team in the 90s was a class apart. Props to Sir Alex for trusting his youth and giving raw talents like Cantona a chance when no one didn't.

    • @Niendorf_an_der_Stecknitz
      @Niendorf_an_der_Stecknitz Pƙed 5 lety +12

      As a Chelsea fan, it kills me to see the list of people we sold. No list required. Also, we passed on signing Mbappe at 13.

    • @ChristOMalley
      @ChristOMalley Pƙed 5 lety +4

      cant beat derk kuyt tho bahaha

    • @keanqyn1994
      @keanqyn1994 Pƙed 5 lety

      Liverpool didn't pass on Laudrup. They had agreed on a 3 year deal. But Liverpool decided at the last moment it was 4 year or nothing.

    • @chrislogue2276
      @chrislogue2276 Pƙed 5 lety +9

      @@keanqyn1994 Um... That sounds exactly like passing on him to me...

    • @conky83
      @conky83 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      @@chrislogue2276 How does "make it 4 years or we're not signing you" sound similar to "Nah, we don't want him anymore/he's not good enough"?..............

  • @ShaneJoshua1980
    @ShaneJoshua1980 Pƙed 5 lety +145

    I'm an Arsenal fan, but he is truely a mythical figure. The way he came back in the 95/96 season and just dominated, the arrogance, the fight, the flair, the artistry and the philosopher.
    He went to Utd and owned the place. I'd love to sit with him and talk football, the arts and politics.
    He truely was one of a kind......
    "When Seagulls follow zeee trawler, it's is because they s'ink sardines will be thrown into the sea...S'ank you."

    • @fbaallied
      @fbaallied Pƙed 5 lety +11

      If a black footballer has acted the way Cantona had behaved for any top club, he would have been sent to solitary confinement.

    • @ShaneJoshua1980
      @ShaneJoshua1980 Pƙed 5 lety +4

      Possibly depends where in the world they were and who they were. Look at Romario, Ronaldinho, Garrincha and Asprilla to name a few, played for fun and didn't give two fucks.
      @Cherryboy I think if it was a non English black footballer then they'd maybe be given the rub of the green. If it was a black Englishman...Then maybe you're right.
      It would also be down to talent and their capacity to deliver on the big stage.

    • @chimaogeibe2921
      @chimaogeibe2921 Pƙed 5 lety

      Cherry Boy True but that doesn’t mean Cantona wasn’t a boss for doing it😂

    • @vxrdrummer
      @vxrdrummer Pƙed 4 lety +5

      @@fbaallied The Colombian that was shot dead for scoring an own goal at World Cup USA 94 wasn't black. Would they have tortured him first if he was black and then killed him? What in God's name has his colour got to do with his punishment? Yes he would have suffered added racial abuse, but the punishment would have been the same. Even back then the law was the same for a black premier league footballer as it was for white players. Rio Ferdinand is not really black or white. Does that mean his ban would have been halved if he was totally white and doubled if he was totally black? I hate how people have to bring in race into things. Who cares what colour his skin is? Evra never got a worse punishment because he was black for kicking that dude. Saurez never got an undercooked punishment for being racist just because he was a white man doing it. Racism is racism whatever colour you are and whoever you point it at. If you need to bring race into it then that becomes suspicious to me!!!!

    • @vxrdrummer
      @vxrdrummer Pƙed 4 lety +1

      @ShaneJoshua1980 Great comment man. I feel like that about some of your players. I came to despise Arsenal due to our rivalry, but god did you have some players!!! Henry, Bergkamp, Viera, Petit, Overmars, Parlour (yes I said it ha ha), Pires, Wright, Merson, Annelka, Kanu...the list goes on. I love to see mutual repsect of another club's players. Like Henry changed the Premier League after Cantona changed it. Henry was just unreal and looked like it took no effort...plus that goal against us over Barthez...Bastard ha ha.

  • @BeachPleased
    @BeachPleased Pƙed 5 lety +126

    there should a TV Show starring Zlatan and Cantona...

    • @RED-yw7ov
      @RED-yw7ov Pƙed 4 lety +4

      V-Factor doing what? Besides talking cringeworthy bullshit 🙄

    • @bigwednesday00able
      @bigwednesday00able Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Brilliant!!!!

    • @jbri1
      @jbri1 Pƙed 4 lety +6

      @@RED-yw7ov no, that's you

    • @conorsmith8551
      @conorsmith8551 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Definitely

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 Pƙed 2 lety

      Zlaten is nothing but a fraud with a pony tail! Cantona is real deal

  • @georget6549
    @georget6549 Pƙed 5 lety +253

    Do a video about Getafe. The have the worst pass accuracy and lowest possesion percentage but they are 4th in La Liga

    • @aymanelakrami8915
      @aymanelakrami8915 Pƙed 5 lety +15

      their defensive system helps a lot I think they're third to atletico and valencia (all these 3 teams play a compact 4-4-2)

    • @carpetbilly
      @carpetbilly Pƙed 5 lety +13

      Leicester City won the premier league with the lowest possession and they won the league. Dont know about pass accuracy. Possession doesnt mean anything if you cant do anything with it.

    • @tribalque2232
      @tribalque2232 Pƙed 5 lety +6

      ​@@carpetbilly Leicester had low possession but it was by no means the lowest in the league.

    • @joshasquith18
      @joshasquith18 Pƙed 5 lety +8

      Not watched any Getafe games but I assume the low possession and pass accuracy means they're playing a route one style. Like others have mentioned, Leicester won the league playing a similar way, an if that is how Getafe have had success then it's probably good for Spanish football in general, to have more varied styles of play throughout the league.

    • @grampa6682
      @grampa6682 Pƙed 5 lety

      They have uruguayan defenders. That's why

  • @A_S07298
    @A_S07298 Pƙed 5 lety +15

    I think he came 3rd in the Ballon D'or in 1993 just behind Baggio and Bergkamp..that shows just how good of a footballer he was.

    • @tris421
      @tris421 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      It's funny comparing Bergkamp and Cantona. I mean people say Bergkamp is more talented and it might be true but no way could Bergkamp have inspired a team the way Cantona did. Bergkamp would often disappear. Cantona had the grace, skill and touch like Bergkamp but he was also a winner.

  • @hiitdon8630
    @hiitdon8630 Pƙed 4 lety +5

    Just goes to show what sir Alex knew what we didn’t! What a wise man he is

  • @mikecraddock9173
    @mikecraddock9173 Pƙed 5 lety +161

    Ah nothing about why he left Leeds after being part of the league winning team

    • @Zauchi
      @Zauchi Pƙed 5 lety +24

      these vids used to be cool but now I think they skim over info and come to abrupt ends

    • @conky83
      @conky83 Pƙed 5 lety +15

      ...... But, everyone knows what happened when he went to Man United. Literally, everyone.

    • @CakeAndNipples
      @CakeAndNipples Pƙed 5 lety +19

      @@conky83 thats...not what he said

    • @bluebells72
      @bluebells72 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Mike Craddock ,""" very true big part of his English football legacy started at EL coz SWFC made massive blunder.
      Great team especially that 92-93 season" was there when we beat you at Ibrox 2-1 n same score at yours"" ps tapie didn't just mess with cantona he also bribed us RANGERS out of first ever champions League final but even with him bribing the other teams in the group we still went unbeaten all the way thru every UCL game and missed the final by one goal

    • @thedude5600
      @thedude5600 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Rumours are he left Leeds not because Fergie persuaded Wilkinson to sell, but cos he was banging another team mates wife!

  • @shanewright2772
    @shanewright2772 Pƙed 5 lety +13

    There are no players like Cantona anymore - nowadays we have players who are more like products who present themselves, market themselves and speak for themselves almost interchangeably with stars from other global sports. Someone as familiar with Camus as Cantona was would hold these insects in nothing but contempt. There'll be more skilled players, the media will manufacture bigger legends, more GOATS, but I doubt we'll ever see a player with balls the size of Cantona's again

  • @gaznev2111
    @gaznev2111 Pƙed 4 lety +12

    Once a lifetime player but a typical Frenchman 😅. I dated a Parisian girl , she was insane đŸ€Ł

  • @jonnybravo3055
    @jonnybravo3055 Pƙed 4 lety +2

    He was a crucial part of the rise and dominance of Manchester United which they had for 20 years. What a player.

  • @mrkipling2201
    @mrkipling2201 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Remember seeing clips of him playing in french football. Some great goals interspersed with him booting someone!!

  • @SujoyChakravarthi93
    @SujoyChakravarthi93 Pƙed 5 lety +33

    OOH AH CANTONA! I SAID OOH AH CANTONA!

  • @willypupo89
    @willypupo89 Pƙed 5 lety +14

    Cantona after football has been just as interesting.

  • @luiseduardogomezdearandaju723

    Your videos have a wonderful relaxing quality to them.

  • @chipsthedog1
    @chipsthedog1 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    Looking back it's funny how people questioned Fergie choices there's a video titled the day Cantana signed for United where United fans really doubt the decision and one says, "forget all that ooh ahh Cantana, we won't be singing that here at old Trafford" if only he knew.

  • @ObnoxiousOtter8
    @ObnoxiousOtter8 Pƙed 5 lety +6

    *OOH*
    *AAH*
    *CANTONA*
    *OOH AAH CANTONA!*

  • @yuvrajpradyumna2193
    @yuvrajpradyumna2193 Pƙed 5 lety +28

    Can you please make a tactical profile video on Kaka during his days at Milan.

  • @bear1245
    @bear1245 Pƙed 5 lety

    Great vid. Shared on FB

  • @JamesPCroad
    @JamesPCroad Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Love the way how Matt G writing in These Football Times described "Attacking Pivot" referencing a time before such things existed and before such university student words were used in football.
    Ah you kids and your clever words.

  • @Alwadie07
    @Alwadie07 Pƙed 5 lety +1

    LEGEND đŸ‘đŸ»

  • @jeettrivedi2873
    @jeettrivedi2873 Pƙed 4 lety +7

    Look at his story and zlatan 😂 both got fights everywhere and won everywhere. Made for united

  • @gogosolar21
    @gogosolar21 Pƙed 4 lety

    True, he wasn’t prolific, but the team was always better with him on the squad, unless it was the French team. He had a great eye and mind of when to make the play

  • @tedsonkabiru4349
    @tedsonkabiru4349 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Cantona won every year's premier league's title in 5yrs apart from that throat incident one

  • @_Snapper
    @_Snapper Pƙed 5 lety

    a man of honour

  • @Jerichocassini
    @Jerichocassini Pƙed 3 lety

    The King.

  • @caps8723
    @caps8723 Pƙed 5 lety +4

    Genius

  • @rafirahman3856
    @rafirahman3856 Pƙed 3 lety

    Eyyyyy Cantona basically started from my club, AJ Auxerre âšȘđŸ””

  • @iandeeley9033
    @iandeeley9033 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    .... and the rest is HISTORY!

  • @osmabinladen5057
    @osmabinladen5057 Pƙed 5 lety

    Great vid

  • @horstborscht7401
    @horstborscht7401 Pƙed rokem

    Cantona won the championship title in every full season he played in England. The only time he didn't was when he was banned for half a season. That's phenomenal.

  • @maxmg2227
    @maxmg2227 Pƙed 4 lety +2

    The problem in France is that we can raise the best players in the world, even when they have hard personas like Cantona, but when these guys become stars and happen to have personalities bigger than life then there are no french clubs good enough for them. Marseille has the management of a greek or a turkish club, Lyon has no appeal and will always be a sidekick, Monaco is a tax haven which will never have a winning mentality and Paris will always fall on the last case of the stairs. Our only hope is that Mbappé breaks the curse

  • @VillaVelasco89
    @VillaVelasco89 Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Please do a tactics video on Conte's all-conquering Juventus :)

  • @yeahhbuddy3932
    @yeahhbuddy3932 Pƙed 5 lety +19

    He might kick people but atleast he dont blame the wind for a loss lol.

    • @896t5
      @896t5 Pƙed 5 lety

      Kicking peoples worse.

  • @coachhbosoccer
    @coachhbosoccer Pƙed 4 lety

    goodness, no wonder he was so quiet, clearly petulant, but what a genius on the ball

  • @kclink1579
    @kclink1579 Pƙed 3 lety

    So is that how the Cantona chant started.

  • @losluvr
    @losluvr Pƙed 4 lety +3

    The difference was SAF Sir Alex Ferguson đŸ‘đŸœđŸ’•

  • @indrachaudhari7874
    @indrachaudhari7874 Pƙed 5 lety +5

    4:26 flipping the finger??

  • @james-ch
    @james-ch Pƙed 5 lety +1

    The subtitles are absolutely broken

  • @coachhbosoccer
    @coachhbosoccer Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Cantona punched Valderamma in the fro?? LoooLL!

  • @MrKAKARONALDOMESSI
    @MrKAKARONALDOMESSI Pƙed 4 lety +1

    How I wish I could go back to 1994

  • @dduiithe-boi9570
    @dduiithe-boi9570 Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Late but good vid

  • @northernenglander1916
    @northernenglander1916 Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Ooh ahh Cantona

  • @peacefulliberal5641
    @peacefulliberal5641 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    People like Eric Cantona doesnt have a place in football. People like him belongs to UFC.

  • @tomhulme1176
    @tomhulme1176 Pƙed 4 lety

    After cantona did that flying kick in the changing rooms ferguson berated the players for a poor performance he then turned to cantona " eric you cant go round doing things like that son" i dont think another manager on earth could handle a man like cantona like sir alex did, growing up on the streets glasgow he was used to men doing what men do best make mistakes and accept them for it.

  • @bw4500
    @bw4500 Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Cantona was great at Celtic after Utd

  • @HubDubOfficial
    @HubDubOfficial Pƙed 3 lety

    As a Wednesday fan... Just imagine what would have happened if Cantona played for Wednesday 👀 👀

  • @leothetuhin
    @leothetuhin Pƙed 5 lety +2

    If you could just increase the volume

    • @yunglime2733
      @yunglime2733 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Just run it up lol are you listening to the video while sitting next to a tv

    • @leothetuhin
      @leothetuhin Pƙed 5 lety

      Or my speakers are bad enough to not hear this vid but can hear most other channels

    • @yunglime2733
      @yunglime2733 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      @@leothetuhin you watching this video on a flip phone? đŸ€ŁđŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

  • @shirtsguitar
    @shirtsguitar Pƙed 2 lety

    ⚜⚜

  • @Bzorlan
    @Bzorlan Pƙed 5 lety

    You've got the wrong Leeds badge

  • @Gen_Drazha
    @Gen_Drazha Pƙed 5 lety

    Ranieri at Roma

  • @davrothelegend
    @davrothelegend Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Nice use of peripatetic.

  • @fitbluebager
    @fitbluebager Pƙed 5 lety

    Ralph hasenhĂŒttl at southampton

  • @moreblack
    @moreblack Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Don't leave us hanging, what happened to him after he joined Manchester United?

    • @CultPersonalityOf
      @CultPersonalityOf Pƙed 4 lety

      Nothing big, just became the greatest bad boy in football's history 😂😂😂

  • @brianlaudrupchannel
    @brianlaudrupchannel Pƙed 4 lety

    Ended abruptly

  • @davidcarter7337
    @davidcarter7337 Pƙed 4 lety

    Very informative but you left out he spat at GĂ©rard Houllier in the changing room after a match for France & he called Trevor Francis a fucking stupid idiot after he scored 5 goals in a indoor friendly on his debut only to be subbed at halftime.... Yes halftime! Because Francis told Eric to go easy on his opponents!

  • @roryscottish8053
    @roryscottish8053 Pƙed 5 lety

    He should have played in the Scottish league.

  • @AbdurRahman-mb1vr
    @AbdurRahman-mb1vr Pƙed 5 lety +2

    Liverpool past to signed him haha ynwa

  • @vb2388
    @vb2388 Pƙed 5 lety +9

    Zlatan maybe King but Cantona is God

  • @Naeshabby
    @Naeshabby Pƙed 5 lety

    He probably worked at Utd because Ferguson allowed talented players to express themselves

  • @lucasnowicki8073
    @lucasnowicki8073 Pƙed 5 lety

    Subtitles in the last minute of the video are flawed, though.

  • @sambeech6771
    @sambeech6771 Pƙed 4 lety

    It turns out, you only get to do it once

  • @archipiratta
    @archipiratta Pƙed 3 lety

    I wonder if a similar story could one day be told about one Mario Balotelli, l'enfant terrible. I sure hope so. Coz it's such a waste of talent đŸ˜©

  • @davidhegron8519
    @davidhegron8519 Pƙed 5 lety

    michel platini. not michelle (girl's equivalent)

  • @geutz2000
    @geutz2000 Pƙed 4 lety

    3:50 "sac Ă  merde"

  • @adelutu32
    @adelutu32 Pƙed 5 lety

    god before coming to us 😍

  • @yreally5139
    @yreally5139 Pƙed 5 lety +5

    Cantona-God
    Zlatan-Kings

  • @matthewrogan7150
    @matthewrogan7150 Pƙed 4 lety

    ALAW

  • @CultPersonalityOf
    @CultPersonalityOf Pƙed 4 lety

    Cantona was Zlatan before Zlatan.

  • @Kumamon.
    @Kumamon. Pƙed 5 lety

    GGMU

  • @youssefanajar4061
    @youssefanajar4061 Pƙed 3 lety

    Fifa 21 trailer gang

  • @jaytettehquarshie1522
    @jaytettehquarshie1522 Pƙed 2 lety

    Tapi died recently

  • @idk5200
    @idk5200 Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Still couldn't win the champions league

    • @ShaneJoshua1980
      @ShaneJoshua1980 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      In fairness the no English club could of when the 3 foreigner rule was in place and Welsh, Irish and Scottish players counted as foreign players, hence Utd playing in Nou Camp in 94 with no Cantona, Keane or Schmiechel.

    • @hereistand2008
      @hereistand2008 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Stupid comment

    • @Wolfington
      @Wolfington Pƙed 5 lety

      On his own?

    • @mikeohara5130
      @mikeohara5130 Pƙed 5 lety

      Over rated big time

    • @Abdi-libaax
      @Abdi-libaax Pƙed 5 lety

      @@mikeohara5130 how old are you

  • @LudeUwe
    @LudeUwe Pƙed 4 lety

    overrated

  • @fbaallied
    @fbaallied Pƙed 5 lety +1

    Can a black footballer *EVER* be seen by majority white football fans a a"God" the way Cantona (Who was OVERHYPED) was to United?

    • @liambriddock6374
      @liambriddock6374 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Henry

    • @TheBigO1998
      @TheBigO1998 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Ngolo

    • @liambriddock6374
      @liambriddock6374 Pƙed 5 lety +4

      Drogba

    • @8wayz2shine
      @8wayz2shine Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Pelé and Eusébio are two great players who have been highly regarded both in their home country and the world. Ronaldinho is a Balon d'Or winner and a legend at Barcelona.
      On the other front, Zidane is from an algerian origin and you really do not want to get into that discussion in France, however he is widely considered as one of the best French players of all time and a legend at Real and to a smaller degree Juventus.
      Cantona helped them win 4 titles and their first one in 26 years. If someone like Salah helps Liverpool win their first title in 30 years, you can bet that he will remain a legend in that club forever.

    • @alanbstard2258
      @alanbstard2258 Pƙed 5 lety

      Gullit

  • @RichMitch
    @RichMitch Pƙed 4 lety

    One of the most overrated players in premier league history