When I played football I never really listened to any ... the brilliance of Cantona as a player. “The sad thing is I was a huge admirer of Cantona and still am as a footballer,” Pearce says.
Recollections vary about the provocation for Eric Cantona’s attack on a fan at Crystal Palace 30 years ago. In court Cantona’s version of events was that Matthew Simmons, the man he kicked, had ...
Simmons has said subsequently he cannot remember the precise words he used, but almost every football follower of a certain vintage knows exactly what happened next. After the incident Cantona ...