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[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Sports]] [[Category:Featured in Morrissey / The Smiths video]] [[File:Eric Cantona.jpg | 200px | right | thumb |Eric Cantona]] ==Relevance== His image appears on a magazine being read by the star of the "[[Mention::Introducing Morrissey]]" opening sequence. Excerpt from the NME blog [https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/how-eric-cantonas-infamous-kung-fu-kick-helped-inspire-morrisseys-most-daring-ever-solo-album-769557 "How Eric Cantona’s Infamous Kung-Fu Kick Helped Inspire Morrissey’s Most Daring Ever Solo Album" by Al Horner] (January 20, 2015): <blockquote> Sent off for the fourth time in four months, Manchester United’s French forward Eric Cantona was heading for the tunnel at Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park early in the second half of a nervy 0-0 draw, when, hearing xenophobic abuse from a home fan, he launched a kung-fu kick into the supporter’s chest. The outcry was enormous. Morrissey, inevitably, was enraptured. He began turning up to interviews in Cantona t-shirts, howling his praises: “I find him very exciting,” Morrissey beamed to one interviewer. “I think [the kung-fu kick] set a good example. I found it very encouraging and glamorous.” The Mancunian started performing live with tambourines with “ERIC” and “CANTONA” scrawled on them, and even snuck the Frenchman’s image into a short film played as he came onstage each night on his 1996 world tour the following year. In the volatile, artistic, misunderstood Cantona, Morrissey saw a kindred spirit. </blockquote> ==Image Gallery== <gallery> File:Eric tambourine 1995.jpg | [https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/how-eric-cantonas-infamous-kung-fu-kick-helped-inspire-morrisseys-most-daring-ever-solo-album-769557 source] </gallery>
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