BITESIZE | Chris Waddle: Eric Cantona, rebel with a cause
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s story comes from Chrissy Waddle, who played alongside Eric Cantona at Marseille and believes he was popular when he moved to England because British fans love a rebel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode |
| 0:18.8 | you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:24.0 | All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:28.0 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | He played with Cantonat. |
| 0:37.0 | Erret, yeah, character. Never. You know, people going about Eric and they all go, he was a really nice guy, you know, he'd come in in the morning, always come in, |
| 0:49.4 | nine times about the time about the time of the time of the time I would be on Holly Davidson. |
| 0:52.6 | Eric was Eric, big guy, you know, but nice guy, didn't suffer fools. |
| 0:57.2 | I had come in, but I was just have a every morning, very polite. |
| 1:01.9 | And he was in the team, Beckenbowel at them. It was me, him and Pap-An. |
| 1:05.9 | He got injured, he did his knee, and he was out six weeks or something like out of ligament trouble. |
| 1:11.0 | And by that time it became me Pap on a bitty pelier and we were |
| 1:15.7 | one five other three but Eric couldn't get back to the team and Eric was one of them I would think |
| 1:20.0 | I'm not sitting here so we basically said I want to go, which they did let them go to NIM, or a million euro, a million quid, |
| 1:27.2 | whatever, whatever was. But I used to get all right with him. He was never a problem, come in and he, |
| 1:32.4 | not not the most talkative, train well, |
| 1:35.0 | a really nice guy. |
| 1:36.0 | You know, to me, he was a good player, but I never thought he'd be as big as he was |
| 1:40.0 | when he kept my name. |
| 1:42.0 | And the French players, you know, with more sale lads and they used to say it to me. |
| 1:47.0 | We could never see that Arab being a massive player in France, |
| 1:50.0 | you know, a good player, but not the Haiti which was united, you know, you know, but not the hide see which she was mandated. |
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