I don't usually idolize athletes, but...

Sep 20, 2021 9:33 PM

skapanda616

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Perfect play

At :55 https://youtu.be/C7PSY7KYThk

"He was okay when the guy was effing and jeffing at him but I think he called his mother a 'French whore' and that was the turning point."

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Drink beer, kill nazis, fuck it

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He should have aimed for the head

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How did Cantona know the guy was scum? I couldn't see much of him so I'm curious.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Seems to me he's already done his community service.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cantona could be a real prick sometimes, but goddamn this was glorious.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

get em!

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I watched the clip but didn't see what prompted the kick. How was that man a fascist?

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

He was a regular attender of extremely far right rallies. BNP and NF. Basically UK Nazis.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Doesn't this adhere to their "kick it out" policy? Not sure why they punished him.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Getting kicked by someone who literally kicks things for a living has got to fucking hurt.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

and cleats, don't forget th cleats.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's how you earn the beat 9 month vacation ever. I'd make a toast to me everyday.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Damnit. Best*

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

thanks for the YouTube link @op... (I like this screen recording feature)

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Cantona is a fucking legend for many reasons

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

Depends on if it's a rich nazi or not.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who comes up with this shit ? It had nothing to do with nazism. This was just a dickhead fan abusing him.

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4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

And after the impact, the nazi went

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

How did he know he was a nazi/fascist? I though he was just called a cunt by him

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

"F**K off back to France you French motherf**cker" and he caught a swift boot for it.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 30

Sooooo... asshole racist yes, but Nazi? You're going to need more evidence than that.

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Oh, you're that kind of stupid. Bye now

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 33

I'd say "Come to the U.S.!", but his legs would probably get tired. There are a lot of those folks to kick over here.

4 years ago | Likes 361 Dislikes 13

We should be kicking til we can't find them

4 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

his court-ordered Community Service was "must perform anti-fascism for his community"

4 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 6

Or coaching soccer...

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Well, that means all the kids on the soccer team will be learning a bunch of swear words.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Kick more fascists... Got it!

4 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

What the guy yelled was racist, according to Cantona. Well and good, it's not the first time the dude was shown as being racist.

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

Nazi's are racist, but racists aren't all nazis. It's a squares and rectangles thing. Kick him for being a racist ass, but

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

don't try to sensationalize it. There are 14 hallmarks of fascism, and this guy meets maybe 3 of them.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

Don't overuse the word to the point of meaninglessness. It reduces the importance for the times that it should be used.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

FFS there was no Nazi. The guy taunted Cantona over the red card. Why does everyone have to embellish crap?

4 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 13

Internet points, headlines, and clicks.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

"F**K off back to France you French motherf**cker"

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 41

Why is this being down voted? It's an excellent article

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sooooo... asshole racist yes, but Nazi? You're going to need more evidence than that.

4 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 10

Oh, you're that kind of stupid. Bye now

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 51

May we all get such an opportunity in life

4 years ago | Likes 1188 Dislikes 8

We do. They call themselves Republicans now and they probably live on your street. Kick away.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is kinda misleading. Éric decided to kick the dude bc the dude called him nazi scum. It was quite a long time ago.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have had the good fortune of having to kick down a door. It felt great. This would literally feel 10 times better!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

v

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

why would you wish such a thing. seeing one should be rare.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey, its me a facist. But you'll have to cash app me the 18000 before the kick.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’d rather they weren’t around, but that’s not realistic. Remember to follow through and use the ball of your foot or shin, not your toe.

4 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Please be careful a lot of them pull on a uniform during work hours.

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Some of those that work forces, etc.

4 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 1

Are the same ones the burn crosses

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Etc

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Not fascism. Racist or nationalist really. Guy was yelling about going back to France. This was after the other team wasn't getting carded.

4 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 2

Isn’t the guy literally giving the Bellamy salute in the picture?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So he was already upset. Then you get this loudmouth that set him off.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

So another common term for a racist nationalist would be....?

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 17

A xenophobe

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

The Punk culture people in Germany love to beat on Nazis

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If you don't hate Nazis youre not a punk

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fucking right

4 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Punk is very Left

4 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 1

There were kind of two factions back in the day, but the anarchist leftists won by punching nazis.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Skinheads against racial prejudice AKA SHARP

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Can we get some documentation in this? I would happily watch a slideshow set to Sex Pistols. (In German)

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

there you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0d-bxBM9YQ it's more about Antifa, but I think the connection to punk is thematised

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

May punk never die! And may nazis be tortured for all time!

4 years ago | Likes 170 Dislikes 1

Wanna upvote but I'd ruin it

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

?

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

well, I'd actually prefer them to die out/re-align their views than being constantly beaten up... but tbh I'll take what I can get.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He should’ve been awarded a medal.

4 years ago | Likes 307 Dislikes 8

England's laws regarding stuff like this are worse than the United States..not sure the details but my buddy in Manchester says it sucks

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was quite a long time ago, from what i remember the dude called Éric a nazi scum, that's why Éric decided to kick him. So maybe no medal?

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

While the guy was later found to have some poor political history, there wasn't clear indication of this at the time.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Cantona was well known to have a temper on the field. He got ejected from a game for kicking another player during this incident.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

On his way off the field, a fan yelled at him to "go back to France" (poor decision, but can't call that "Nazi" behavior from a hooligan).

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

My memory of the incident was that an insult directed towards Cantona's mother was the thing that pushed him over the edge.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cantona then went and jumped into the stands, kicking the man and subsequently started to punch him.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The dude was literally doing a Roman salute while he yelled that at cantona

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

You got a sauce for the fascist part? That seems distant from the news reports I can find: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/30916435

4 years ago | Likes 57 Dislikes 3

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/oct/31/newsstory.sport2 - interview with the "hooligan" kicked. Granted, Guardian...

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

IIRC the guy told him to go back to France or something. Been a decade or 2 since my United friend was talking about Eric every other day!

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

"F**K off back to France you French motherf**cker" and he caught a swift boot for it.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 30

Sooooo... asshole racist yes, but Nazi? You're going to need more evidence than that.

4 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 9

I'm not sure racist fits here either... Do British folks consider French folks to be another race?

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

LOL. Yes. England and France is one of the most bitter rivalries in history.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

If you read the linked article talking about the guy, yeah he was a racist nazi, but you have to click that link.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

FWIW this basically confirms - ties to BNP and convicted of attacking a sri lankan guy, then attacked someone at his trial

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Oh, you're that kind of stupid. Bye now

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 44

Nazi has a particular connotation, I don't see that quote meeting it. Nationalist asshole? Yes, Nazi? No. If I'm wrong, explain it to me.

4 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 2

First I’ve heard of the guy being a nazi, I think this is bullshit? I remember the incident, well.

4 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 3

Papers at the time reported he went to BNP and NF rallies https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/oct/31/newsstory.sport2

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Both nationalist and racist, not nazi

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 7

Could you explain the difference between a racist nationalist and a nazi for me?

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Ideology mostly.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Historically the nazis were racist nationalist,that doesn't mean every racist nationalist is a nazi. Today I think they are used identically

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Nazi is an abbreviation of National Socialist German Workers’ Party. How they got Nazi out of that is beyond me. I think it just got popular

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

to brand all racist, right wing, authoritarians as Nazis. Outside of skinheads and Aryan groups, I think that brush is overused.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

"F**K off back to France you French motherf**cker" and he caught a swift boot for it.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 34

Yeh that's no being a nazi. That's just regular old xenophobia

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Sooooo... asshole racist yes, but Nazi? You're going to need more evidence than that.

4 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 3

Oh, you're that kind of stupid. Bye now

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 53

I mean a better thing to do here would be to accept the guy was an asshole but maybe not a Nazi and look for proof or move on

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Yup, exactly. It’s not “your point wasn’t perfect so it’s wrong,” it’s “your point wasn’t perfect, make the small adjustment to improve it.”

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

This kind of response ruins productive dialogue. It is *critical* to listen to constructive criticism from people *on your side*.

4 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 2

Sadly

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

It’s what makes your arguments stronger. Stronger arguments are what actually effect change. Effecting change *has* to be the end goal.

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As much as nazis are scum, sucker punching someone will never be cool in my book.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 14

Fashies get the bashies.

4 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 2

Could’ve swung a bit higher. Beards make is harder for punches to stick.

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Such a clean hit.

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Nearly knocked his beard off!!

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It's beautiful..

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You love to see it

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

Is there a video for this one too?!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I could tell you it's from the Alt Right Rally in Charlottesville but I don't know I there's video sauce

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I could watch nazis getting hit all day long. Never gets old.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The solution to the paradox of tolerance

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Mmmmmm. :) Makes me happy.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

From downtownnnnn

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ohhhh - a neck beard nazi - that's a two-fer punch.

4 years ago | Likes 230 Dislikes 2

Had to compensate for lack of a chin.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

He was due-fer a two-fer

4 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Who-fer?

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Just like great granpappy used to say “I’m alive at 98 for two things; liquor, and to make sure those Nazis stay dead.”

4 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 0

Ok now I want bubba ho-tep but it's Cotton Hill-esque WW2 vets assembling at a VFW to fight zombie nazis

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

DEAR GOD, YES!!!!!!!!!

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Punching nazis works though. Richard Spencer got punched and stopped doing public appearances out of fear. Stopped doing public stunts and-

4 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

-trying to recruit or convert more people to his beliefs. Fuck debating these asshats, that's what they want so they can spout rhetoric.

4 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

Looks more like an elbow but either way fuck yeah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFh08JEKDYk

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To debate them is to imply that their point of view deserves equal consideration.

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Nazis getting fucking leveled never gets old

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I watched this so many times, NGL

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4 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 1

sit DOWN, BITCH!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Someone better have edited him getting punched to the tune of We Will Rock You. It’s just begging to be done.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Best thing I've seen all day

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Do all these 5 foot nothing, chinless, cousin fuckers really see themselves as the master race?

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The comic preacher - where is your chin?!?

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Hitler would have wiped them out first.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

I love that members of every skin shade hate these fuckers. One thing that restores my faith in humanity

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Yes exactly its even often pale people who are the ones punching nazis

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is one of my all time fav gifs. The like "no wait, hold up!" before like yeah, that's gonna help.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Everytime I see this, I love the 'please respect my space' hand gesture. And the punch.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As if a Nazi being punched needed a cherry on top, but here we are :)

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This reminds me, need to trash some of grandpa's trophies.

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Why? That doesn't make any sense. If anything those families are more aware of what it means.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I'm speaking in the first person. I have a box of Nazi belt buckles etc. I don't want them ending up in Nazi hands.

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

Er, why are you worried they'd end up in Nazi hands? Do you really believe that's likely?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Please please please give them to a museum or academic society. Throwing those to the dump would be an abhorrent waste

4 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Should look into giving them to a museum or something. Nothing better than putting on display an example of failure.

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

WW2 is so upsetting. Always reminds me of my grandfather’s sacrificial death. Fell out of a guard tower in Dachau.

4 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 6

?1

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4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

I honestly believe this is exactly why there are nazis in America

4 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

You should probably look into how wildly popular fascist ideology was in America before WW2. Nazis has confabs in Madison Square Garden.

4 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

There were Nazi pride rallies as well, the similarities with the KKK made them have even more support. They did slow down once the US joined

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It also probably didn't help that the US government snatched up nazi scientists like they were pokemon after the war.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Why? That doesn't make any sense. If anything those families are more aware of what it means.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

as the comic shows not always, some grandkids/great grandkids are removed from the horrors and become fascinated by the trophies

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Maybe, but that's way different from -becoming- one.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

it really doesn't help that due to trauma and a 'men suck it up' attitude in the era that most vets take the horror stories to their graves.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Consider this carefully if you’re ever thinking about punching a Nazi: lock your wrist so your big knuckles are in line with your forearm.

4 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 1

If anyone would like a list of "punchably painful for the recipient, but not for the giver" body parts, please let me know.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

well now i'm interested

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Knife-edge to interior joints, kidney punch, clap the ears (one or both), knife-edge to Adam's apple, palm to nose.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

THE LIVAHHHHH

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thanks, Bill Burr

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was awakened from sleep by an open handed slapped on the ear; it was clumsily executed and still left me in pain for days.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If done properly, it can be extremely effective, both for pain and disorientation.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Use open hand slap. Just as or even more painful, less damage (so they have less to come after you), and less likely you’ll break something.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

The damage is the point. Ideally punch the windpipe.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You can still get a concussion from a hard slap. I love this video, he's like hey, hol up, let's talk this out...

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

In the full version, the Nazi challenges the guy, then holds his hands up the moment big man calls him on it.

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