Articles in the Eric Cantona Category

Lent-3 short sentences:10
Posted in Eric Cantona, football, Lent on 5 March 2010

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This may be fanciful, but sometimes I see the missionary God as a class football winger, throwing endless patient crosses into the box.

And I sometimes see me as a particularly duff striker: often looking the wrong way, or seeing …

I nearly touched the hem of his garment….
Posted in Eric Cantona on 9 July 2009

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Last week: guitar lesson. I got talking to my teacher. After the inevitable ‘Spinal Tap’ jokes, I worked out that he was a friend of Steve Evetts. Steve Evets is the lead actor in ‘Looking for Eric’- the man on the …

I am not a man I am Cantona
Posted in Eric Cantona, film, Looking for Eric, missional, random on 23 June 2009

For many years now I have had an unreasoning hero-worship of Eric Cantona. He is my favourite footballer of all time and more. When I managed a housing office in a past life, I even coded the alarm with his …