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Eric Cantona – The King of Old Trafford
Eric Cantona
The driving force of Manchester United in the 1990s, Eric Cantona was the forward you did not mess with and a goal scorer you could not let out of your sight. When the Premier League was born in 1992, he was instrumental in Manchester United winning it in four of the first five seasons. The Frenchman who made the number 7 shirt and the captain’s armband his own was truly a cult figure in England; in spite of bans, suspensions and an arrest.
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But when it came to the Champions League, he was never able to establish himself or the club as an elite power. The closest he ever got was when he led Manchester United to the semi-finals in 1997, where they lost to Borussia Dortmund (who would go on to win the trophy) in both legs. He’s received a number of honours since then, the biggest of which was being inducted into the inaugural English Football Hall of Fame (the first player from outside the United Kingdom) in 2002. But a Champions League trophy was one trophy he would have loved to lift.
