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#9 When Eric Cantona owned the press conference
“When the seagulls follow the trawler, they think sardines will be thrown into the sea”
The media is often accused of putting words into celebrities’ mouth, trying to manipulate them into saying something they never wanted to. However, every now and again, “the messers become the messees”, to quote Chandler Bing. Remember the epic “I’m just here, so I won’t get fined” replies given by Marshawn Lynch to the media? Well, he certainly wasn’t the first to troll them fourth estate guys.
It was 1995 and Eric Cantona had just been banned and given community service as punishment, after delivering an astonishing kung-fu kick on a Crystal Palace fan. In his post kick conference, Cantona didn’t oblige to the media and just stayed put obdurately. However, something had to give, and soon enough, King Cantona delivered this slap-on-the-face-disguised-as-high-intellectualism quote, as he likened the media to parasites trying to feed off his words. Ouch.
