- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: PAN Macmillan Adult (Feb 19 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0330511858
- ISBN-13: 978-0330511858
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.2 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 381 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #514,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`An artist, in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970, and the poetry of the young Rimbaud` Eric Cantona
Football, and art. Eric Cantona - legend, maverick, troubled artist or just plain trouble - never saw a need to make a distinction between the two. For all the heat and noise surrounding his infamous Crystal Palace `kung-fu kick`, it is for the sheer exuberant beauty of his play that Eric Cantona is chiefly remembered by English football fans. At Leeds United he transformed the team into title contenders, but became a true talisman at Manchester United, where to this day fans sing of `King Eric`. And yet the effortless style of Cantona`s play could not hide a darker side to his temperament. In his own words, `I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes, this fire does harm.`
Leading French football journlist Philippe Auclair has interviewed over 200 key protagonists in Cantona`s career, searching for the man behind the myth. Marrying a deep knowledge of Cantona`s impact on the pitch with soulful, pin-sharp insight into the heart and inner thoughts of this most complex of characters, this is nothing less than the definitive biography of a one-time rebel of the French game, who rose to be the King of Old Trafford.
`I`d give all the champagne I`ve ever drunk to be playing alongside Cantona in a big European match at Old Trafford` George Best
About the Author
Philippe Auclair has been a correspondent with France Football for over a decade, and is a prolific freelance journalist on both sides of the Channel. He is also Radio Monte Carlo’s main match commentator, and a bestselling author in his native France. He lives in London.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fair and Balanced Portrait of the Second King of the Stretford End, Jan 30 2010
By N. Turner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King (Hardcover)
'The Rebel Who Would Be King' chronicles the life of Eric Cantona from his days as a child in Marseilles, to his 'death' -- Cantona's retirement from football in 1997. Though he has taken an admitted liking to Cantona, Philippe Auclair's (an Arsenal fan himself) work stays away from the territory of shallow footballer biographies with their one sided celebration of achievements, instead opting to fully tell of the events (ranging from spectacular to spectacularly horrendous) that contributed to the making of Cantona as a footballer and more importantly, as a man.Manchester United fans who were around during the Cantona years will enjoy revisiting that time, along with the preceding strokes of luck that brought Eric to Manchester in the first place. (I should note that Eric doesn't make it to Manchester until well into the book; there's a lot that took place before his arrival at Old Trafford, or Elland Road for that matter.) Younger fans will gain a greater appreciation for the man who was such a catalyst in the revitalization of Manchester United as a footballing force. Readers who enjoy (sport) biographies of interesting figures will likely be entertained by this detailed yet well paced telling of events public and personal along with the varied views of people along the way . . . Brian Clough's reaction to the kung-fu kick was, well, very Clough-esque.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cantona { black or white}, April 9 2012
By Sean P. Hogan "The Bull" - Published on Amazon.com
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CANTONA,When you read this book you will discover what makes ERIC the star that he was, and the man that he was. Once you treated him with respect and showed that he was wanted Cantona would do anything for you.In Cantona world every thing was black or white, if you kicked him,he would kick you back.When ERIC got suspended by they French football authority he got 2 matches,he though this was on fair just because of who he was, as every one else who done the same thing had got only one match,so he went up to the 3 officals and shouted into their faces one by one, IDIOT,he then got 4 matches that was ERIC, Strange Man, Fantastic footballer.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not the usual ghost written nonsense - quality in depth review., May 28 2010
By P. Dixon "stranger in a strange land" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King (Hardcover)
Okay, I'm a big Cantona fan - there I said it. Genius, yes. Flawed, yes.To the book.... I own quite a few autobiographies. Most are truly atrocious, offering very little insight to the person themselves. This book is difference in many ways.
It's not written with the involvement or authorization of Cantona at all. That I think helps more than hinders as it means we spend a lot of time exploring the life story of Eric - it certainly doesn't focus on the "glory years" of Eric's football in England, which we don't get to until 2/3rd of the way into the book.
And that's perhaps the downside for some (but not me). I was interested to learn about his early life, his family, his time in French football - all things I knew nothing about. Others looking for 400 pages of Eric's career at Manchester United will feel short changed.
The one thing against a 5 star is the author's tendency to dwell just too much on the psuedo-intellectual side of things.....but then he too is French!
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