Explained: Cantona's Sunderland goal celebration

Reds of a certain age will effortlessly recall it and it has since acquired the bigger audience it deserves, with online videos enabling younger fans not even born in December 1996 to also enjoy it.

There’s the turn on the halfway line, the one-two with Brian McClair, the insouciant chip and, most of all, the disdainful celebration – collar up, chest out, slow turn to allow his adoring Old Trafford faithful to marvel at him from every angle.

But perhaps not everyone knows Eric’s motivation for the memorable way in which he marked that effort against Sunderland, as revealed by the man himself on this week’s episode of UTD Podcast…

“I never celebrate a goal in the same way, because every goal is…