The Owls give a chance to a polite young Frenchman
In January 1992, Trevor Francis’ Sheffield Wednesday attempted to fuel the trend of importing foreign talent by giving a trial to a promising Frenchman named Eric Cantona.
Despite not speaking a word of English, they found him to be very polite, and were quite satisfied that his bad tempered days were behind him. When he impolitely joined rivals Leeds instead and proceeded to spit and kick his way through the rest of his career, they probably decided their initial assessment was a little off the mark.
As Off The Post point out, we love the fact that Wednesday appear to be training in a school sports hall - how humble those pre-Premier League days were…
[The Guardian via Off The Post]
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2 responses so far
1 Rob // Apr 30, 2009 at 3:19 pm
What I love, is the shock - Wednesday already have a Swede and an American - at the idea that a n English team would have Three Foreign Players.
Different times…
2 Mystic Mark // May 1, 2009 at 12:43 pm
why the need for johnny foreigner? just put big paul warhurst up front. we’ll win the european cup in no time, if we beat norwich, leeds and villa to the title.
now, before i go to watch blankety blank, i’ll just give you guys a betting tip…put a few quid on this yugoslavia team for euro ‘92.