• Jonathan Joseph Uton pite truth is tonl? The truth Is that Cantona's philosophy Is crap. Beautiful or ugly, everything is sponkung-fu incident. taneous. But is fouling another player really an expression of an artis- excuses. tie temporment? Unfortunately, Judged by his own standards, Cantona is more profound when he's playing than when he's talk- thing to call Cantona a ing. Yet the chance of him 'frog', it is something else making a fool of himself is to call Paul Ince a 'nigger'. one of the most exciting The French are an imperiaspects of today's game. alist nation founded upon Argh! Most normal peo- years of exploitation and ple thoroughly enjoyed the racism. To equate antiFrench sentiment with.
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sor with the oppressed. they Let's not call verbal aspicked the wrong one. saults on privileaged Was Cantona really sub- white Europeans racism. jected to racism? It is one It trivialises the issue. The of either gender who are young and poor" case of Cantona is very different to the case of, say, steven Lawrence (murdered by a Nazi gang). Let's call it xenophobia or chauvinism instead. like The two are connected. If Ince suffered racist abuse in the same incident, then he is justified in taking the matter into his own hands. Better still. however, would be to help build independent supporters' associations and commit them to fighting football racism.
Er? If the seagulls follow the trawler it is because we are meant to behave sardines. Cantona has been reprimanded because, as a public figure, he is a bad example to us idiots. In the eyes of the moral right he has failed the Lineker test.
Now its time for the rest of us to kick back.
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