“It was a clear kung-fu kick,” says Pearce, who described it as such in his peerless commentary. “It was ferocious, outrageous, unaccountable and just staggering really.” Cantona was ...

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.

But what happened to the Palace fan who was at the end of the famous kung fu kick? Matthew Simmons claimed he had shouted, ‘Off! Off! Off! It’s an early bath for you, Mr Cantona’, but ...