Cantona's infamous kung-fu kick on a Crystal Palace fan led to a reduced jail sentence and a nine-month ban from the FA. Despite the severity of the incident, Manchester United boss Sir Alex ...

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.

I blew for a kick on Richard Shaw. As I approach, Chris Coleman and Gareth Southgate were running towards Cantona, by which time I’ve got the red card up in the air.” “It’s probably boring ...

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 ...

THIRTY years on from Eric Cantona’s kung-fu kick and I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was allowed to watch the highlights the following morning as a six-year-old. It was just crazy ...

Two months later the band Ash used a photo of Cantona’s kick as the cover of their single Kung Fu. Ash even used the ... see it was going to happen. My reaction was that I knew this was going ...