
Is a big ego the key to greatness?
One evening in the mid-1990s, Manchester United players and staff attended a Batman film premiere. It was a black-tie event.
Cantona was a talent with an abundance of self-confidence, but had been a destructive force inside the dressing rooms of his previous clubs in France. He had been known as much for punch-ups with team-mates at Auxerre and Montpellier as his ability with a ball at his feet.
He was perceived as damaged goods in France, but in England he helped Leeds United win the league a