# Erica Cantona, you beautiful barmy sporting titan **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463 "2019-08-30T08:30:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/1 "2019-08-30T08:30:19Z")
A note to all you social-media wannabee’s. All you “try-too-hard” inflamers of public opinion and “look-at-me” millennial narcissists. [This](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/30/eric-cantona-eternal-war-crime-king-lear)is how you do it properly. This is old-school provocateurism and attention grabbing of the noblest and apparently effortless kind. Good to know he hasn’t lost it. beard? check dishevelled appearance? check gallic swagger? check Incomprehensible metaphor? check dumfounded audience? check The only thing missing was a turned-up collar but he knows to leave you wanting more. Eric is what Zlatan can only dream of. May the footballing gods bless you Eric, you absolute bloody maniac. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/2 "2019-08-30T12:57:20Z")
Pretty sure that was him tossing sardines off the trawler. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/3 "2019-08-30T15:29:43Z")
Despite his accomplishments on the pitch, I will always remember him best for this cameo in my all time fav commercial. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-6K-LQORi-U/hqdefault.jpg "Nike Brazil 1998 World Cup advert") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6K-LQORi-U) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/4 "2019-08-30T22:15:38Z")
I’m only posting to point out what a lovely adjective “barmy” is. And Eric Cantona sure is barmy, no doubt about that. What would we do without the occasional weirdo footballer? Every generation needs them, but I have the impression they are a dying breed. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/5 "2019-08-30T22:19:07Z")
He seems interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/6 "2019-08-31T07:44:44Z")
As a Leeds United fan I’ll be forever grateful for that 91-92 season and it was clear that he was out of his tree even then but as a a player he was hugely influential. You’d imagine that he’d be an individualistic player but her really did bring out the best in those around him, he was _pivotal_ in the true sense of the word. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/7 "2019-08-31T13:42:56Z")
Erica? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erica-cantona-you-beautiful-barmy-sporting-titan/839463/8 "2019-08-31T15:24:37Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Erica? bugger!