What the papers said about . . . Eric Cantona
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Your support makes all the difference.'At the final whistle, Cantona picked the wrong man at whom to direct a mouthful of his mother tongue. Referee Kurt Rothlisberger - a French teacher from Switzerland - spun around and immediately showed the red card to the United striker.' Daily Mail
'Cantona, the touch player, couldn't touch the high notes when asked to go solo. All he did was lose his temper . . . When Cantona's four-letter outburst . . . produced a red card, it summed up a night of bitter disappointment for Fergie's men.' Daily Express
'It was not so much a case of ooh aah Cantona as ou est Cantona? Stumped by Stumpf, his German marker, Ferguson's French dressing became a sour vinaigrette.' Guardian
'Eric Cantona was fortunate merely to be dismissed by referee Kurt Rothlisberger in the mayhem which engulfed the Ali Sami Yen stadium last night. He could just as easily have been convicted of incitement to riot . . . Cantona, all too aware of his failure to compensate for the non-selection of Mark Hughes, was an accident waiting to happen.' Daily Telegraph
'Ooh, aah, au revoir . . . Cantona is once again looking like a luxury. A bit like a dishwasher that goes on the blink after a year. The guarantee has run out and he has left a dirty mark on the most precious cup of all.' Sun
'His crowning misfortune was that Kurt Rothlisberger happens to be a teacher of French and an intolerant man when it comes to grown- up idiots.' Times
'Cantona's reactions may have been wrong - but they were entirely understandable.' Daily Mirror
'There was speculation . . . that the footloose Eric Cantona might soon be on his bicyclette again after an ineffectual, petulant performance which saw him sent off . . . at the final whistle.' Independent
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