Product Description

When Eric Cantona joined Manchester United from championship rivals Leeds in November 1992 it was the beginning of a partnership made in heaven. By the end of the 1992/93 season the championship had returned to Old Trafford for the first time in 26 years. Despite his regular brushes with authority and a rash of controversial incidents, Cantona was consistently the driving force behind United's glittering success of the early to mid 1990s. The Frenchman was the inspiration for a generation of young players, including David Beckham and Paul Scholes, that recaptured the European Cup for United in 1999, two years after Cantona's retirement. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest players ever to grace the Old Trafford turf. This biography gets to grips with the ultimate football icon of the 1990s.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #630012 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Synopsis
When Eric Cantona joined Manchester United from championship rivals Leeds in November 1992 it was the beginning of a partnership made in heaven. By the end of the 1992/93 season the championship had returned to Old Trafford for the first time in 26 years. Despite his regular brushes with authority and a rash of controversial incidents, Cantona was consistently the driving force behind United's glittering success of the early to mid 1990s. The Frenchman was the inspiration for a generation of young players, including David Beckham and Paul Scholes, that recaptured the European Cup for United in 1999, two years after Cantona's retirement. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest players ever to grace the Old Trafford turf. This biography gets to grips with the ultimate football icon of the 1990s.

From the Publisher
FourFourTwo's Rob Wightman has written an intriguing biography of one of the most talented and enigmatic players ever to pull on a Manchester United shirt.

Customer Reviews

A Piece of Magic
An excellent book in which the author doesn't try to get into the mind of Eric Cantona but sticks with the footballer's career. There is good background history on Cantona as a youth, the clubs he signed to (some of the reasons why he did), his run in with officials and also his despair at the game and early retirement. It is only thanks to the efforts of two men did Cantona reconsider his career and this led to his arrival at Leeds United which was to be the seed of something special in England. The book dwells nicely on Cantona's career at Manchester United and we can see how it was a match made in heaven. Yes there is a look at the "kung fu" incident and how it could have affected him but instead Cantona returned a better man.

Throughout the book we can see the talent of the player and towards the end, we see how he has changed from the firey player the to man who is at one with himself.

As football player autobiographies go, this is one of the best and even if you weren't interested in football as such, it is an amazing insight in the man himself.