Complete Eric Cantona

Author: Darren Phillips
Publisher: Empire Publications
ISBN: 9781901746587
Category : Soccer players
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Eric Cantona's career at Old Trafford lasted only 5 years but its lasting impact is still being felt today. During that comparatively small span, Cantona's dedication and self-confidence enabled a club to emerge from over a quarter of a century of failure and self-doubt. Cantona's career before he arrived in England had been nomadic at best, self-destructive at worst. He blazed a trail through French football but the highest profile incidents centred on his spectacular misbehaviour and clashes with authority. By the time he was snapped up by Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson in early 1992, he seemed to have burned most of his bridges in France. A lucky phone call was the catalyst for Cantona's £1m transfer to United following a brief Leeds career during which the Frenchman had added inspiration to a team founded on perspiration. Most Manchester United fans recognised Cantona's class, his decisive role in Leeds 1992 title triumph and his instant hero status among Yorkshiremen. Yet few could have anticipated the quality that would shine through following his arrival at Old Trafford. For 26 years Manchester United fans had suffered under the jack boot of Liverpool's domination of European and domestic trophies. Cowed into submission, their fans tended to hope for the best but feared the worst, even 6 seasons of relative success under Ferguson hadn't changed that mindset. Cantona's fearless attitude transformed the club, almost in an instant. Never has a football club been so altered from one day to the next by one signing. Never has a club gone from 'nearly men' to 'champions' at the stroke of a pen. All of a sudden, the boot was on the other foot and remains so to this day. over 10 years since Eric last kicked a ball in anger. This book details every game Eric played for Manchester United, Leeds United and the French national team as well as potted summaries of his career in France. Darren Phillips, author of "The Complete George Best", has painstakingly researched his remarkable career in France, England and in the French national team. This book can be read either as a work of reference or a detailed insight into a career that altered the dynamics within English football for good.

Eric Cantona

Author: Fergus Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140384499
Category : Soccer players
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
Aimed at children aged eight and above, this book presents a straightforward history of Eric Cantona's controversial career, from when his talent was first noticed, through to his time at Leeds and Manchester United.

King Eric Cantona

Author: Wayne Barton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911613510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

Cantona on Cantona

Author: Eric Cantona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233990453
Category : Soccer players
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
The autobiography of Manchester United player, Eric Cantona, who talks about his views on the key influences in his eventful life, covering both football and more personal issues.

The Complete Cantona

Author: Eric Cantona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780747277408
Category : Soccer players
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

Cantona

Author: Philippe Auclair
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230744301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 469

Book Description
Many have tried to persuade Eric Cantona to write his autobiography. He never will. Philippe Auclair has interviewed every key player in Cantona's life, from his family and first coach to his wife Isabelle, to produce a biography that reveals the heart and inner thoughts of this most extraordinary character.

The Book of Venice

Author: Elisabetta Baldisserotto
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 191269753X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.

250 Days: Cantona’s Kung Fu and the Making of Man U

Author: Daniel Storey
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008320500
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
An incredibly entertaining and perceptive look at the most controversial moment in Premier League history.

Eric Cantona, king 7

Author: Richard Aujard
Publisher: Les éditions Ipanema
ISBN: 9782364781054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Ses maillots ne sont plus flanqués du chiffre 7 mais la vie d'Éric Cantona reste celle d'un roi. Sa vie justement, il la confie peu, alors la confiance qu'il attribue à son ami photographe Richard Aujard depuis vingt ans a un parfum viril. Aujard ne chasse bien que le gros gibier. NTM, la fratrie Tiozzo ou Mickey Rourke... aussi sa rencontre avec Canto avait quelque chose d'évident. En vingt ans, il a fait faire au King ce que personne n'aurait oser lui demander pour le seul plaisir d'une bonne photo ! Aujard touche également à l'intime. Clichés avec son père, ses frères, sa femme, ses enfants, il contemple et sublime la vie de son pote Éric depuis toutes ces années. Alors les deux hommes ont voulu fêter ça ! Célébrer vingt années de délires visuels, et finalement d'art photographique. Aujard à l'objectif, Cantona aux commentaires, Mickey Rourke à la préface et c'est l'un des plus riches, beaux et authentiques livres de photos qui s'offre à voir.

My Notebook

Author: Eric Cantona
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1474608388
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
On the field or off, Eric 'The King' Cantona has always been known as an artist. Passionate about painting and photography from a very young age, he more recently took to writing, drawing and sketching out his thoughts in small Moleskine diaries. This book is the reproduction of his notebooks. Through these never-before-seen drawings, in his faux-naive style, Eric Cantona questions every aspects of the world around us - whether it's love, death, absurdity or society. With his trademark wit and wordplay, Cantona interrogates our paradoxes and contradictions, and the absurdity of the world as only he knows how. These notebooks are as funny as they are poetic and philosophical. But foremost, they're an ode to living, loving, sharing and contemplation.