Manchester United legend

Chapter 68
In the last game of the Champions League group stage, Manchester United played against Galatasaray at home.Last season, when Manchester United played away in Turkey, the referee made a fool of it. Cantona received a red card on the spot and was punished by the referee. The two teams forged a bridge.

In this game, the soldiers of Manchester United will naturally have to compete fiercely with their opponents to avenge their previous revenge.

Ferguson has sent a lot of new faces, the most eye-catching is the debut of Beckham, and it is not Ryan Giggs who wears the No. 11 jersey, but another newcomer Simon Davis.Of course, Cantona will definitely start, and the past should have been settled long ago.

Manchester United played a near-perfect game at home. In the 3rd minute, Simon Davis received a long pass from his teammate on the left.

Manchester United's offensive was in full swing. Jost once made a cross near the bottom line of the penalty area on the right, and the ball hit the opponent's goal beam and popped out. At 38 minutes, Cantona attacked in the frontcourt, and the opponent made a clearance in a hurry.

Then, it was Jost, who was extremely vigorous, performed a rare feat in the opponent's penalty area. He continuously dribbled the ball horizontally, passed two defenders, and then easily hit the goal from the far corner, 3-0!Manchester United are on the verge of a big win!
This was followed by Cantona's performance.In the final stage of the game, Cantona broke into the penalty area and crossed, forcing the opponent's central defender Kirkmaz to make a mistake in his busy schedule, and he kicked the ball into his own goal.For Cantona, this is the best revenge!

Manchester United's four-goal victory over Galatasaray avenged their elimination last season, but they still couldn't control their own fate.In another game, Barcelona and Gothenburg played 1 to 1. In the end, Manchester United was eliminated third in the group. Gothenburg and Barcelona advanced to the quarter-finals.

Manchester United was eliminated in the Champions League group stage. Ferguson made a summary at the team meeting the next day.

First of all, the team's style of play is still far from a high level. Although in the English league, Manchester United can have high speed and high confrontation, but in Europe, Manchester United still lacks precise and ingenious passing and cutting cooperation.

The second, and more important, point is that with United's complete conquest of the domestic arena, players are not fully committed to each game.

At home, opponents will throw up their hands and surrender as soon as they feel the breath of failure.In the away game, although the competition is fierce, as long as the opponent is not Liverpool, Arsenal, Leeds United or Dalglish's Blackburn, as long as you hold your breath, there will naturally be Cantona, Giggs or Mark Hughes to solve the problem.

This team was a bad phenomenon, and Ferguson asked the whole team to correct it.

At the end of the day's training, Jost wanted to practice with Cantona, but saw Cantona walking towards the locker room.

Jost caught up with Cantona: "Hey! Eric! Don't you practice with me today?"

When Cantona saw that it was Jost calling him, Cantona said, "I have something to do today. I have recently become obsessed with Chinese Kung Fu. Bruce Lee, do you know?"

Jost: "I don't know!"

Cantona said regretfully to Jost: "You don't even know about Kung Fu Lee. You are so outdated. My friend gave me some CDs of his movies. I watched his Kung Fu movies. They are very good. Do you want to go to my house to watch his movies?"

Jost also agreed for the first time, and Cantona happily put his arms around Jost's shoulders and walked to the locker room: "Let's go! Training madman, people must learn to live, not just training blindly."

Cantona drove Jost to his home, a small two-story building decorated in European style. Cantona's wife Isabella welcomed Jost very warmly.

Isabella said: "You know Paul? Eric has never brought a teammate home to play. You are the first."

Jost was a little surprised when he heard Isabella's words.

After Jost and the Cantona family had dinner, Cantona took out the CD and enjoyed Bruce Lee's movies together.

The movie is called "The Way of the Dragon", in which Bruce Lee demonstrated Jeet Kune Do and Chinese Kung Fu to the fullest.One of Bruce Lee's run-ups jumped up and kicked people away, which made Cantona very addicted, and he wanted to show Jost that he could do it too, but was stopped by his wife Isabella.

Until 9 o'clock in the evening, Jost said goodbye and left Cantona's house.

On January 1995, 1, Manchester United played against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Stadium in the league.The game was full of gunpowder, the two sides competed fiercely, fouls continued, and various brutal and fierce scenes continued to appear during the game.Manchester United opened the scoring with a David May header in the first half.

In the second half, the Crystal Palace team attacked wildly. They tried to equalize the score. Manchester United's defense was under great pressure. Jost and Ince received yellow cards for defense respectively.

Although the Crystal Palace's offensive was fierce, Manchester United did not panic. They thought that even if the score was equalized, Cantona would score a random goal somewhere, allowing them to surpass the score again.

But Cantona was stalked by his nemesis, Richard Shaw.This guy is annoying, but not mean, whether he pulls the defender's shirt, or stretches his leg to trip you, or whispers something at you, all he does is to distract the offensive player.

These tricks depend on who is used for them, and they are very effective against Cantona, who was troubled by him.

In the second half of the game, Manchester United counterattacked. Jost's long pass from the backcourt flew directly in the direction of Cantona. Cantona turned to chase the ball, but was caught behind by the opponent's Richard Shaw and could not catch up. He lost an offensive opportunity.

Cantona, who had been harassed and violated by Crystal Palace players many times before, finally couldn't control his temper. He took revenge on Richard Shaw of Crystal Palace and kicked his opponent down without the ball.

The referee did not let go of his bad foul, and the players of the Crystal Palace team immediately gathered around to ask for an explanation. The Manchester United players were also not to be outdone, arguing to the opponent and the referee that Cantona had been violated many times before.

The quarrel immediately triggered a confrontation between the players of the two teams, and the conflict was on the verge of breaking out.The referee finally showed Cantona a red card and sent him off the field.

The audience was also irritated, the Selhurst Stadium was going to be turned upside down, the shouting in the stands was disgusting, racist taunts were everywhere, jokes were made about the players' private lives, etc., and there were even praise songs about the Munich air disaster!Rival fans are disgusting.

For such a result, Cantona had expected it a long time ago, and he turned around and left without making any judgments.

Just when the referee finished dealing with the foul incident, the players left the scene of the foul one after another, and Cantona was also preparing to leave the stadium accompanied by Manchester United staff, a Crystal Palace fan ran over 11 steps to the side of the field, cursing "French bastard" and more unsavory foul language, insulting Cantona and his family.

Cantona, who was depressed, suddenly became angry. His face was flushed, his eyes were rounded, and he looked directly at the other party for a second. Seeing that the other party was still spraying feces, Cantona responded decisively!

Cantona didn't make a sound at all, he didn't argue with his opponent, he didn't scold the opponent, he didn't curse, and he didn't complain to the staff on the sidelines.He hardly made any gestures or gestures to fight back. After taking a step forward, he flew straight up. He jumped over the billboards and guardrails with his body sideways, jumped high, and aimed at the fan with a standard Chinese kung fu—flying kick!
If Bruce Lee saw Cantona's kick, he would be proud of his kung fu, and if Jost saw it, he would definitely think of the movie he watched at Cantona's house. This kick was the same as Bruce Lee's kick.

The scene was faithfully captured by television cameras.After being kicked, Simmons still yelled and cursed loudly, but the staff on the sidelines had already been petrified, and there was no time to fight this guy away.

Cantona was furious, and the consequences of kicking across the body caused him to fall himself. Fortunately, Cantona did not wear shoes with rubber spikes, otherwise Cantona would fall very badly, and it is possible to break his waist.

Anger had burned Cantona's mind long ago. While the guy was still chattering, Cantona rushed up and grabbed Simmons across the fence, and his fists fell on the opponent like a storm. It was a solid beating.

The fans nearby and the staff on the sidelines finally reacted and immediately stepped up to stop it.Cantona finally stopped when several people blocked and stopped him.

Jost thought 10 vs 11 when Cantona was sent off, without Cantona, this time Cantona would have to go all out.

Suddenly there was a commotion in the stands near Joost. Jost thought that something happened, but he didn't know what it was.When Jost rushed over, Cantona had already been taken away.

When the matter was over, the game restarted, Manchester United had no intention of fighting, and was equalized by Crystal Palace. The score was over at 1:1. No one cared about the score. At this time, there was silence in the Manchester United dressing room.

In the dressing room after the game, Ferguson first rushed to Pallister to reprimand him for failing to keep an eye on Southgate, allowing the latter to score the equalizer for Crystal Palace.

After the roar was over, Ferguson turned to Cantona in the center of the storm, put his hand on his shoulder and said: "Eric, my boy, you shouldn't have done this - that man didn't deserve it.

But since this happened, we shall bear the consequences together. "

Ferguson didn't turn on the hair dryer to the Frenchman. He didn't get angry. His first reaction was to protect Cantona instead of blaming him for making mistakes.

Manchester United's club directors rushed over and stood with Ferguson to discuss countermeasures. Among them was the club's lawyer Maurice Watkins.

Cantona sat with his head bowed, while the police waited for him in the corridor.

Cantona kicked Crystal Palace fans and was taken away by the police guarding the door, but he was soon freed - Ferguson asked the club's lawyers to immediately find someone during the game, and Manchester United released Cantona on bail after the game.

On that night, Manchester United fans couldn't bear it and had a fierce conflict with Crystal Palace fans.Fortunately, the police arrived in time to suppress it, so that no bigger troubles were caused.

Cantona returned home to Manchester safe and sound, what to do or what to do.Only the French slept soundly that night. Outside of Manchester United, British football and public opinion quickly set off a climax, and their saliva formed an extremely powerful vortex.

Ferguson ordered the club to immediately release Cantona on bail, announcing that Cantona's mistake was only "temporary loss of control is justifiable, rather than deliberate murder and injury", and Manchester United will deal with it internally.

Ferguson also instructed the club to accuse the fan who angered Cantona, believing that it was Simmons' bad words and deeds that caused Cantona to lose control-"Cantona is deeply loved by the club, fans, England and French football.

(End of this chapter)