Cantona at Selhurst 30 years on

Think it was a Tuesday night. We had just beaten Blackburn at OT with a goal Cantona scored from a Giggs cross, and had just signed Cole. Things were looking very promising. It’s very likely that if Cantona hadn’t flipped that night, we’d have ended up with five titles in a row, and he’d have six out of six in total.

Nah it was definitely a wednesday. We'd have won the league no doubt.
 
Aye, can still see Giggsy sliding to win the ball then in near enough a single movement he stands and crosses and Eric nods in at the far post, everything was on a knife-edge, amazing times...
Pretty sure it was a Wednesday the Blackburn game being the previous Sunday winning one nil with a Cantona header, could be wrong though, I was 12
 
Aye, can still see Giggsy sliding to win the ball then in near enough a single movement he stands and crosses and Eric nods in at the far post, everything was on a knife-edge, amazing times...
It was brilliant from Giggs.Even so Eric had just one square foot of goal to aim at but he hit the target.He usually did.
Blackburn had a goal disallowed just afterwards which only made it sweeter.
 
Remember it like yesterday. A midweek game and my dad and I were listening to the commentary on the radio, while playing cards, as we would.

When the commentary said that Cantona had gone into the crowd and had an alitication with a fan, it was hard to imagine what had happened.

It was only when seeing it later on the news that we realized how crazy this was.
 
Caused a massive row the following day at work between myself and several Cantona haters.

Loved it when he returned from his ban to remind everyone who was King.
 
Fergie berating everybody in the dressing room after the for the result with only Eric except from criticism is ace!

Can't remember by who but isn't Ferguson quoted as finishing just by saying "...and Eric, you can't be doing that son"?
 
Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember seeing this happen.

I still recall saying something along the lines of "go on Eric lad" when I saw it. I'm no advocate for violence, but sometimes some people really do need a good slap - or in this case a good Jeet Kune Do kick.

Knowing it was 30 years ago makes me feel ancient. Feels more like 20 really.