“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 ...

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 ...

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.

And yes, it was a very creative way to pick up a lengthy ban from football and 120 hours of community service when Cantona kung-fu kicked a Crystal Palace fan at Selhurst Park in 1995. In fact ...