Did Cantona deserve the dismissal which sent him ... “Eric came across at half-time and said, ‘First half – no free kicks? Second half, no free-kicks’,” Wilkie says.
The Palace crowd he passed close to included Simmons and whatever was actually said prompted Cantona to pull away from Davies and leap towards Simmons feet first with a kung fu-style kick.
THIRTY years on from Eric Cantona’s kung-fu kick and I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was allowed to watch the highlights the following morning as a six-year-old. It was just crazy ...