Eric Cantona really said THIS after his infamous 'kung-fu' kick

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  • Eric Cantona left the world baffled with an unforgettable press conference following his infamous 'kung-fu' kick against a Crystal Palace fan in 1995.
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  • @sopretentious
    @sopretentious Рік тому +587

    This one made it to Eric Cantona's top 5 free kicks

    • @UnMisanthropeCynique
      @UnMisanthropeCynique 9 місяців тому +8

      😂😂😂😂😂😂, even as a French, I find that funny lmao

    • @blo6k
      @blo6k 5 місяців тому +14

      It was free and it was a kick

    • @tree3910
      @tree3910 4 місяці тому +6

      An absolutely astonishing free kick goal from Cantona! We will never see a free kick goal like this ever again!

    • @standardprotocolformat6090
      @standardprotocolformat6090 4 місяці тому +2

      Free indeed.

    • @nikreece6295
      @nikreece6295 4 місяці тому +1

      🤣👌

  • @raddysrants8407
    @raddysrants8407 7 місяців тому +275

    He called it his moment of purity.
    What a legend...

    • @armsie100
      @armsie100 4 місяці тому

      what a dumb ass great player but guys a muppet

  • @happybee7725
    @happybee7725 6 місяців тому +163

    I remember watching this live at 17 tripping out my box thinking it wasn’t real. It was so surreal. Absolute madness. Cantona was my favourite player. Seeing him fly kick a fan is something I will never ever forget.

    • @allisnotwhatitseems.
      @allisnotwhatitseems. 4 місяці тому +1

      Were they double dipped strawberries

    • @davyprendergast82
      @davyprendergast82 3 місяці тому +4

      I'm wondering if random teenagers doing acid or mushrooms somehow influences the universe to make weird stuff happen to the football lol. In my case, me and my mates were all watching MOTD while tripping like f. Villa were 4-0 up at half time at Middlesbrough, Lee Cattermole, who looked about 10, came on the pitch for his debut but started crying his eyes out in front of everyone (pretty sure it was him!), before a parachutist crash landed on the pitch. Yeah that happens every week when you're not tripping lol

    • @lukasunokatsudon
      @lukasunokatsudon 2 місяці тому

      that's hilarious@@davyprendergast82

    • @jediromanista3229
      @jediromanista3229 10 днів тому

      He did the right thing

  • @rael1999
    @rael1999 10 місяців тому +233

    It's not the kick, it's the punch he lands on him right afterwards. That one certainly rocked the arsehole.

    • @jugg9140
      @jugg9140 8 місяців тому +4

      kick if done right is much more stronger than a punch, go watch taekwondo ko's, but yeah he is a footballer not a martial artist.

    • @chopchopsmash379
      @chopchopsmash379 7 місяців тому +13

      and what a punch it was!

    • @yavuzabdioglu2642
      @yavuzabdioglu2642 7 місяців тому +10

      it was a quick powerful punch he knows how to throw a punch

    • @user-bp7ro2jl5k
      @user-bp7ro2jl5k 5 місяців тому +6

      He deffo didn't want another one the cheeky little.😂😂😂😂kung fu cantano i said oo r cantana

    • @timothy790110
      @timothy790110 3 місяці тому

      he didnt look very rocked. its the shaved headed bloke with a tie and leather jacket.

  • @gamingwithgeo2937
    @gamingwithgeo2937 Рік тому +123

    Basically said he won’t be saying anything 😂😂😂 what a goat

  • @myluresstuckinatree2111
    @myluresstuckinatree2111 Рік тому +147

    What a legend

  • @Ingenuity009
    @Ingenuity009 9 місяців тому +48

    😂😂😂 what a fucking legend

  • @manunited1132
    @manunited1132 4 місяці тому +24

    No need for VAR on that one lol 😂🤣

  • @UnbiasedBayernFan
    @UnbiasedBayernFan Рік тому +268

    They laughed but i think we understood exactly what he meant. Rather ironic that the media didn't.

    • @endless9207
      @endless9207 Рік тому +7

      What did he mean?

    • @btaylo24
      @btaylo24 Рік тому +90

      @@endless9207 The Trawler is him, the Seagulls are the press.
      .

    • @btaylo24
      @btaylo24 Рік тому +12

      Think you can work out sardines 🙂

    • @mrjones1696
      @mrjones1696 Рік тому +26

      That has always stuck with me, How can I take the mainstream media seriously if they can't even figure that out? Hence I never have.

    • @DurkMcGerk
      @DurkMcGerk 8 місяців тому

      The meaning is that the media are scavengers looking for scraps. Modern day equivalent is gettin dem clicks.

  • @ryanjohnston7844
    @ryanjohnston7844 6 місяців тому +88

    Never see this again. Eric was a genius. Best 1 million quid ever spent on a footballer. He'd be worth 150 today.

    • @ironlungslc9529
      @ironlungslc9529 4 місяці тому +4

      Probably alot more lol man u bought that Harry maguire for 80 mil lol 😅what a joke

    • @ryanjohnston7844
      @ryanjohnston7844 4 місяці тому

      @@ironlungslc9529 probably

  • @ollie63m
    @ollie63m 11 місяців тому +37

    Love how the guy mugging him off acts like he done nothing wrong after getting lamped

  • @PTMarcoBryant
    @PTMarcoBryant 10 місяців тому +29

    Everybody was kung fu fighting 🙌

  • @mrjones1696
    @mrjones1696 Рік тому +84

    And that is why my firstborn is named Eric, 1966 was a Great year for English football, the King was born!

    • @TF-uo5cg
      @TF-uo5cg 6 місяців тому +1

      Please tell me he fly kicks kids in school 😅

    • @Fardawg
      @Fardawg 18 днів тому

      "English"

  • @manhnguyentien7972
    @manhnguyentien7972 Рік тому +63

    "Football is life"

  • @willm3027
    @willm3027 Рік тому +33

    He probably said “I love football”

  • @Martvandelay
    @Martvandelay 7 місяців тому +23

    A true legend!

    • @BongoBill
      @BongoBill 5 місяців тому

      Nah . POS more like.

  • @caci111
    @caci111 28 днів тому +2

    "playing for MU was a beautiful moment in my life. but nothing is more beautiful than kicking a fan" -Eric Cantona

  • @user-fs5ji1tv6l
    @user-fs5ji1tv6l 7 місяців тому +1

    Any more videos of the beginning of this clip?

  • @juliooliva8715
    @juliooliva8715 6 місяців тому +10

    Ain't nobody gonna talk about Peter Schmeichel's tucked in jersey and oddly above the weist high pants!
    The real crimimal here was that jersey's deseigner

    • @Altoseb
      @Altoseb 4 місяці тому +1

      And his hair?

    • @ian0_0z
      @ian0_0z 5 днів тому

      95 in Europe, dude, fashionably speaking it's 88 in US.

  • @pjmmccann
    @pjmmccann Рік тому +45

    Perfect response to the milling media, but maybe the best part of the video is Schmeichel's 'Harry High Pants' outfit, with that enormous jersey tucked right in. Aah, the nineties: the decade in which good taste took an extended holiday.

    • @blobboflava
      @blobboflava 7 місяців тому +1

      lol 😆😆😆

    • @martinsmith6049
      @martinsmith6049 4 місяці тому +1

      Hang on - the nineties blasted 80s Stock Aitken and Waterman, Rick Astley, Boy George, early Kylie into a pre 1960s George Formy-esque hole. Garbage, Radiohead, Oasis, the internet, 5% lager, all day opening hours... methinks you are a bit hard on the Nineties Sir.

  • @rig-a-deelio8465
    @rig-a-deelio8465 11 місяців тому +19

    Cantona = Proto-Zlatan.

  • @INFACTparis
    @INFACTparis 4 місяці тому +4

    the punch after the kick is the best

  • @jimrogers2390
    @jimrogers2390 Рік тому +5

    I remember the older woman to the left of the guy who was kicked was interviewed at her home on tv. She seemed very upper class you'd expect to see at Polo match and not one that fitted the mold of your average English football supporter at the goal end of an EPL match.

  • @heylooktheresahaironyourscreen
    @heylooktheresahaironyourscreen 3 місяці тому +6

    Fun fact : The guy who got kung-fu kicked, Matthew Simmons, lied in court about hurling racial slurs at Cantona, but was found guilty and slapped with a £500 fine. Immediately after the verdict was passed, he proceeded to physically assault the prosecutor outside the courtroom and was rewarded with another £500 fine and a week in jail for his troubles.

    • @ximono
      @ximono 2 місяці тому

      Racial slurs? You mean francophobic slurs? He called his mother "a French whore".

    • @MIK23458
      @MIK23458 6 днів тому

      He did it whilst in court didn’t he? Jumping over the barrier and grabbing the prosecutor in a head lock.

  • @zigzag8949
    @zigzag8949 4 місяці тому +1

    This never gets old 👍

  • @G50016
    @G50016 8 місяців тому +6

    Seagulls? VULTURES!

  • @800percent
    @800percent 9 місяців тому +7

    Dude got down like a G

  • @presntnow
    @presntnow Рік тому +7

    They finally forgive Eric Cantona when he appeared in the (circa) 2002 NIKE FOOTBALL ADVERTISEMENT, CAGE FOOTBALL Match with the Best Players in the World At the Time. (Elvis vs JXL- 'Little Less Conversation'; the backing soundtrack)

    • @B4luth6Do6
      @B4luth6Do6 Місяць тому

      there is nothing to forgive, hooligans are no football fans

  • @Preludedraw
    @Preludedraw Рік тому +10

    "I love football"

  • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
    @sirandrelefaedelinoge Рік тому +19

    Pure poetry

  • @antekacunic9315
    @antekacunic9315 4 місяці тому +1

    Legend 👏
    29 years passed away since that

    • @martinsmith6049
      @martinsmith6049 4 місяці тому +2

      Those years didn't pass away - they were lived and loved to the full.

  • @jamesw.t.9591
    @jamesw.t.9591 2 місяці тому +3

    He's has it's coming.😂

  • @AkiraUema
    @AkiraUema 4 місяці тому

    Legend!!! Eric Cantona has got my respect!

  • @ericshin86
    @ericshin86 Рік тому +11

    That mono brow could sink a trawler

  • @JohnDoe-to2kr
    @JohnDoe-to2kr 9 місяців тому +5

    Is this the only camera angle they have of the kick?

  • @ar-whelan8588
    @ar-whelan8588 6 місяців тому +1

    Lmao advertising hungry Jack's while I'm in Canada

  • @kalibatamantab8092
    @kalibatamantab8092 Місяць тому

    he is pure an artist !

  • @Shinod
    @Shinod 4 місяці тому +36

    This is the only language that fascism understands, well done Eric!

    • @TEAMGETHELP
      @TEAMGETHELP 4 місяці тому +1

      You meab communism lmfao summer of love

    • @emma_tm
      @emma_tm Місяць тому +2

      @@TEAMGETHELP both of you go outside

  • @alaskanmalamute101
    @alaskanmalamute101 7 місяців тому +8

    Keane, Cantona, Ince proper football days 🦶💥 ⚽
    Imagine VAR back then..slow mo wrecking opponents 🤣
    Only for the VAR too say..no clear or obvious brutality there we will allow it 😏

    • @martinsmith6049
      @martinsmith6049 4 місяці тому

      You forgot Stuart Pearce, who features in a Stranglers video, This Song

  • @user-qg5zw1mc6h
    @user-qg5zw1mc6h 7 місяців тому +6

    jesus christ what a legend the fan desirved it

  • @d1want34
    @d1want34 8 місяців тому +1

    Nice punch

  • @B4luth6Do6
    @B4luth6Do6 Місяць тому

    u better not mess with the king

  • @seth5369
    @seth5369 6 місяців тому +1

    Cantona' è lo zio di Ibrahimovic❤❤❤❤

  • @KryptonitetoallBS
    @KryptonitetoallBS 2 місяці тому +1

    It was a truly terrible thing when Paul Nixon a Palace fan was run over by a coach after a brawl outside a pub in Walsall. This was pre the FA Cup Semi final between United and Palace @ Villa Park. I support Man United and I've been to Selhurst back in the 80's and 90's a few times. We were not welcomed with open arms, but it was a relatively safe place for United fans in those days and United fans were all over the ground. Away end, home end, stand everywhere. There was no beef between United and Palace before the Cantona/Simmons incident.
    I wasn't there so don't know why things got out of hand that day. The level of violence was unjustified. The people who were responsible for a slab being dropped on Dennis O'Leary's head should be locked up. I wish that some of the culprits that day had been taken to court and locked up for a long time to give Paul's family some sort of justice. The actions of some United fans throwing bricks led to the Palace Coach driver panicking, driving off and then Paul trying to jump onto a moving coach. The whole thing is a terrible tragedy and one that I wish had never happened and that everyone had just drank happily together and boarded the respective coaches and gone to the game!
    Cantona is still a legend @ United. I think what he did to Mathew Simmons was stupid, but I also understand his actions. For far, far too long our game has been blighted with knuckledraggers who think they can get away with saying whatever they want. This incident obviously caused friction between United and Palace, where there had not been any before. But it's important to say that there should be no blame towards Cantona regarding the tragic death of Paul Nixon. Cantona would never have wanted anything like that to happen. His beef was only with a thug called Mathew Simmons.
    As a Manchester United fan I want to say how deeply sorry I am that this incident happened at all. I realise that this will probably fall on deaf ears and understandably so with Paul's family and friends, but we're not all monsters. I am just as appalled with what happened as any Palace fan would be. We're human beings before anything! RIP Paul Nixon ❤💙

  • @SuperTed19021
    @SuperTed19021 4 місяці тому

    *HE, REALLY, SAID, THAT???!!!* 😮😁 *UTA!*

  • @user-xe3gd7nn3z
    @user-xe3gd7nn3z 9 місяців тому

    Watching this I pissed myself

  • @Non-Stick_Pan
    @Non-Stick_Pan 5 місяців тому +10

    The way the fan holds his arms out after - not sure whether he's gesturing that he didn't do anything or if it's because he's suddenly realised he's now a little coward and out of his depth trying to get someone to help him. Either way it just shows what a little scumbag he was.

  • @underneonloneliness2
    @underneonloneliness2 7 місяців тому +3

    The fan deserved it!

  • @tiemme11
    @tiemme11 4 місяці тому

    grande eric!

  • @playerone8706
    @playerone8706 Місяць тому

    I call him "The Karate Kid"

  • @Canadaismybitch
    @Canadaismybitch 6 місяців тому

    😂😂😂 what a chad. ❤

  • @efeefe9323
    @efeefe9323 3 місяці тому +1

    When man had one eyebrow

  • @user-hp7lb5bt6o
    @user-hp7lb5bt6o 24 дні тому

    He did what every player wanted to do

  • @wesleywhitacre6902
    @wesleywhitacre6902 2 місяці тому

    Thx

  • @georgeemanuelmma7561
    @georgeemanuelmma7561 4 місяці тому

    hero

  • @mehraneinirad7522
    @mehraneinirad7522 9 місяців тому +1

    Can someone translate please? 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @Moazz786
    @Moazz786 4 місяці тому

    Whats the story behind this kick. I don’t watch football but intersting to know why it happened

  • @jodyburrows1253
    @jodyburrows1253 Місяць тому

    Hardest French man ever

  • @TyTyTy87
    @TyTyTy87 Рік тому +23

    I don't understand what he said. Something about seagulls and the sea

    • @jeek78
      @jeek78 Рік тому +65

      When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea

    • @TyTyTy87
      @TyTyTy87 Рік тому +14

      @jeek I appreciate that, mate! Seriously, cheers!

    • @davidbosnia4141
      @davidbosnia4141 10 місяців тому

      ​@@jeek78and what does that mean lol?

    • @mehraneinirad7522
      @mehraneinirad7522 9 місяців тому

      Yeah what does it mean in the context?

    • @jrh0967
      @jrh0967 9 місяців тому +2

      @@davidbosnia4141probably means something to do with following for nothing or being baited with no reward/no good outcome

  • @nikreece6295
    @nikreece6295 Рік тому +2

    Even as a liverpool fan....l must admit...l was pissing myself laughing when l saw this as a 17 year old on BBC sportsnight that same evening it happened.....i totally high five cantona for what he did

  • @ni3467
    @ni3467 23 дні тому

    Good sometimes fans get over the top

  • @LeeRenthlei
    @LeeRenthlei 3 місяці тому

    Did they say "Vive la France?"

  • @kevinhegney3813
    @kevinhegney3813 25 днів тому

    They don’t make em like cantons anymore

  • @hassyg4083
    @hassyg4083 7 місяців тому +3

    England always had issue with racism in football hooligan crowd least family friendly sport

  • @zardi9083
    @zardi9083 5 місяців тому +1

    Bro thinks he's a philosopher😭

  • @ottoneumann09
    @ottoneumann09 10 місяців тому

    👍

  • @LxftRxght
    @LxftRxght 7 місяців тому +1

    Kick racism out of football 😂

  • @mickclarke5741
    @mickclarke5741 5 місяців тому

    I wondered how much the guy got in compensation 😂

    • @user-wv5vc6yq7o
      @user-wv5vc6yq7o 4 місяці тому +1

      I think, he asked for it!

    • @saltedjules_
      @saltedjules_ 4 місяці тому

      hey he asked for it to happen

    • @mickclarke5741
      @mickclarke5741 4 місяці тому +1

      @user-wv5vc6yq7o In what world does someone deserve to be flying kicked by a professional footballer for giving him some stick?
      I knew you man United fans had zero between the ears but come on 🙈

    • @user-wv5vc6yq7o
      @user-wv5vc6yq7o 4 місяці тому

      @@mickclarke5741 you don't use racist slur towards Cantona, in front of him. The guy was stupid as hell. Of course, later ,it was proved that he was a fucking fascist. The only thing that you can do when you see a fascist, is what mr Cantona did.

    • @zengerz
      @zengerz 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@mickclarke5741
      The guy kicked got fines for 500 op nd afterwards. After this he attacked the prosecuted and receiver another fine on top of that....
      How does that make you look? 😂

  • @FIFAstuff1
    @FIFAstuff1 Рік тому +6

    Cun fu panda but Eric cantona it’s cun fu cantona

  • @lassekarlsson5385
    @lassekarlsson5385 4 місяці тому

    go cantona go

  • @colinwilcox4266
    @colinwilcox4266 3 місяці тому

    legend

  • @user-gz3me3mj6f
    @user-gz3me3mj6f 3 місяці тому

    perfect gentleman

  • @marcbarberanmartin6204
    @marcbarberanmartin6204 9 місяців тому

    Too light for me.

  • @brownpunk1794
    @brownpunk1794 4 місяці тому +2

    What exactly did the fan say?

  • @Theactivepsychos
    @Theactivepsychos 4 місяці тому

    Schmeichel couldn’t look any more 90s even if he had a bum bag on.

  • @Anonymous-cp8it
    @Anonymous-cp8it 15 днів тому

    There is something seriously off about him.

  • @andalanjawabarat
    @andalanjawabarat 14 днів тому

    Sorry, what did he say? I don't really understand.

  • @guydavid2580
    @guydavid2580 5 місяців тому

    right 👍

  • @crismontagner616
    @crismontagner616 3 місяці тому

    Grandissimo.

  • @ICGedye
    @ICGedye 6 місяців тому

    Missed it?

  • @neildonaghy123
    @neildonaghy123 5 місяців тому

    Hero

  • @S1NN0MBRE00
    @S1NN0MBRE00 3 місяці тому

    😂😂😂

  • @Altoseb
    @Altoseb 4 місяці тому

    Cantona triggered.

  • @miguelpanta
    @miguelpanta 8 місяців тому

    capatain please?

  • @d1want34
    @d1want34 8 місяців тому

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @SykPaul
    @SykPaul 8 місяців тому

    guy really though he was smart there, good for him

  • @martinsmith6049
    @martinsmith6049 4 місяці тому

    So, one question - what was the Palace fan/lout saying to rile Eric up? EDIT Sorry just read it, and he got 120 community service hours. Imagine fetching up in a Croydon charity shop and Eric Cantona is hanging up old womens dresses in the shop front as some manager bat says... 'Not that rack, Eric, for Christs sake... how many times?'

  • @LUFC123
    @LUFC123 6 місяців тому +1

    Cnut

    • @MIK23458
      @MIK23458 6 днів тому

      Aw you still sore Wilkinson let him go practically for free. 😂
      Anyway what happened against Southampton. Losers. 😂😂

  • @marcoGwada971
    @marcoGwada971 15 днів тому

    Faut pas faire chier Canto !

  • @ABDULWAHID-mp1hq
    @ABDULWAHID-mp1hq 3 місяці тому

    Fair play Eric.....respect

  • @nikonikolov7636
    @nikonikolov7636 Місяць тому

    He should know his place practise more , good the crowd saved him

  • @ferox5294
    @ferox5294 8 місяців тому +4

    Se offendi la famiglia di un sardo queste sono le conseguenze

    • @froglet827
      @froglet827 Місяць тому

      He didn't "offend his family" he called him a French bastard

  • @benjaminsavage4204
    @benjaminsavage4204 5 місяців тому

    Certainly shut that fan up ( as he whined and blubbed to the crowd around him . Who weren't helping him >.< )

  • @Johnnycasshh
    @Johnnycasshh 3 місяці тому

    Back when football was a mans game

  • @kylesmyle4907
    @kylesmyle4907 7 місяців тому +2

    Peter Schmeichel - ‘great time for me to display my ego here, I’m the hard nut on this pitch. Nobody else’
    What a tool.

  • @AVportau
    @AVportau 4 місяці тому +1

    one of the most un-sportsman like moments in sporting history.... Eric should've been banned for life after that. plenty of other talented players waiting to take his place... nearly as tragic as John Bourke of Collingwood pushing over an umpire then jumping the fence and punching out a fan. he got a 10yr ban for it which ended his career as a player.

    • @zengerz
      @zengerz 2 місяці тому

      Wow you must be a cryhard 😂
      Why did that fan got to pay a fine afterwards?
      No need to take crap from losers, whether you are a footballer or not; at that moment it has nothing to do with being 'sportsman like'.

    • @AVportau
      @AVportau 2 місяці тому

      @@zengerz sure sounds like you're crying harder than me.... want a tissue?

    • @zengerz
      @zengerz 2 місяці тому

      @@AVportau
      Besides your crying its more than stupid to call something un-sportsman like when that supporter there had nothing to do with doing actual sports or competition. The game was not even played at that moment 😂
      You might want to do some brain training and man up a bit

    • @sharinglanguage
      @sharinglanguage 2 місяці тому

      Not sure if banned for life, but for longer, yes.

    • @Therejectionartist
      @Therejectionartist Місяць тому

      Sportsmanship is connected with how you react to opposing players,, not their pie-eating foul-mouthed supporters.

  • @P1mpMyBr1de
    @P1mpMyBr1de 6 місяців тому

    The atmosphere was electric. You don't get that kind of atmosphere in England anymore

  • @Neshke17
    @Neshke17 4 місяці тому

    What he say?i dont understand cause the accent

    • @Jobber8270
      @Jobber8270 4 місяці тому

      When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea

  • @robertbaglin3973
    @robertbaglin3973 5 місяців тому

    Was there watching UTD and Eric got kicked all night but as soon as he retaliated he got sent off thanks to Southgate and his cronies.
    It was a good job us UTD fans were on the other side of the pitch as that twat Matthew Simmons would never have woken up.

  • @artyomb4041
    @artyomb4041 4 місяці тому

    Typical Brits , only brave when they are 3 or more against 1😂 well done Erik.