thefingerfuckingfemalefury: kakaphoe:becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:kropotkitten: On this day
thefingerfuckingfemalefury: kakaphoe: becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys: kropotkitten: On this day in 1995, Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, Matthew Simmons, during a match against Crystal Palace. Simmons, who attended far-right National Front and British National Party rallies and has a raft of violent convictions including attacking a football coach who called him “Nazi scum”, allegedly heckled Cantona as a “foreigner”. This is our archive on the radical history of football: https://libcom.org/tags/football Cantona’s grandparents fled fascism in Spain if you want antifa stickers with this image captioned “kick the racism out of racists” send a donation to the antifa international defense fund Jesus, I remember this! And I vividly remember that no one ever mentioned the guy was a Nazi. The story that did the rounds was just “Eric Cantona kicked a fan”. Wow. I was just thinking that. I look up the Simmons dude, he was 17 when he did this: He had attended British National Party and National Front rallies and that, in 1992, he was convicted of attempted violent robbery when he attacked an attendant in a Croydon petrol station. He assaulted Sri Lankan-born Lewis Rajanayagam with a three-foot spanner, striking him in the shoulder rather than the head only because the sales assistant took evasive action. At the Cantona trial when he was 20: At his subsequent trial for threatening language and behaviour, he attacked the prosecution counsel after being found guilty, leaping over a bench and executing a flying kick of his own. He was sentenced to seven days in jail, but only served 24 hours. Source And in 2011 he assaulted his son’s football coach in front of the kids: Simmons threw a “flurry of punches”, hitting Mr Cooper in the face, arm and chest and giving him a black eye, bloody nose and bruises, the court heard. Source I don’t know if Simmons is still a Nazi (he certainly was when he was younger) but he’s clearly not stopped being a violent abusive piece of crap. I’ve always liked Eric Cantona and I like him even more now that I know he gave some worthless nazi piece of shit a boot to the head :D This is how you deal with Nazis KICK THE SHIT OUT OF THEM -- source link