HAPPY ERIC CANTONA DAY!

Twenty-eight years ago today, at a match against Crystal Palace, Manchester United star Eric Cantona responded to racial abuse he was subjected to from sieg heiling National Front/British National Party supporter Matthew Simmons by delivering a flying kick to his head from the pitch.

Asked about the incident two decades later, Cantona said “I didn’t punch him strong enough. I should have punched him harder.”

Still a dedicated humanitarian and anti-racist, Cantona pledged in September to personally house and feed a refugee family in his own home for two years.

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