Eric Cantona’s UEFA award acceptance speech is our new favourite oddity -17 perfect reactions
Former Manchester United and France star, Eric Cantona, received the Uefa President’s Award for his commitment to helping improve the lives of others, and promptly reminded us all why he was so entertaining back when he carried out frequent interviews. If you thought his rant about seagulls was weird, wait till you get a load of this.
Wins the 2019 UEFA President's Award… Gives bizarre cryptic speech to confuse everyone in attendance.
Eric Cantona, ladies and gentlemen 😂 pic.twitter.com/qNgZB0cFoW
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) August 29, 2019
“As flies to wanton boys, we are for the gods. They kill us for their sport. Soon the science will not only be able to slow down the ageing of the cells – soon the science will fix the cells to the state. And so we will become eternal.
Only accidents, crimes, wars will still kill us, but unfortunately crimes and wars will multiply. I love football. Thank you.”
Messi and Ronaldo's reaction to Eric Cantona's speech…
Absolutely brilliant 😂 pic.twitter.com/Z6xBYRHLjP
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) August 29, 2019
We have Shakespeare to thank for the opener, but the rest is pure Cantona. Here’s how people have been reacting.
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Barcelona, Dortmund, Inter could be the group of death but as Cantona says we’ll soon be eternal so what’s the problem?
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) August 29, 2019
2.
I never thought I'd say this, but can we hear more from Eric Cantona? #UCLdraw
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) August 29, 2019
3.
When your Eric Cantona robot crashes live on stage. pic.twitter.com/mxTRC5acnq
— cluedont (@cluedont) August 29, 2019
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Great to see Eric Cantona here discussing his new song, I've Got Another Brand New Combine Harvester, at the #UCLdraw pic.twitter.com/NkPzyifJYh
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) August 29, 2019
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Eric’s Great Gallic Philosopher character has always been hilarious. https://t.co/i12WKiGdCj
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) August 29, 2019
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you have to respect eric cantona's journey from world class footballer to gruff lighthouse keeper who unbeknownst to the townspeople every night defends his village from a mighty kraken
— joe (@mutablejoe) August 29, 2019
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On balance I think I’d rather he just karate kick me in the chest, at least it would be over quicker, be easier to understand and marginally less painful. https://t.co/0VdJlq07hd
— Skillsmcgill (@skillsmcgill) August 29, 2019
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this has the most “i love lady gaga” energy i’ve ever seen https://t.co/fS0hjoIPZV
— cowardly and ✨fabulous✨ (@HooiWanV) August 29, 2019
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i am beside myself, i have changed on a fundamental atomic level having read this https://t.co/vdZA9moQdz
— Ewaphant 🐘 (@EwaSR) August 29, 2019