Last week Paul makes a secretive phone call from the restaurant directing the bank to send ‘his’ mail to his work address rather than his home address. The secret password he gives is ‘Cantona’, in honour one of the great players who has taken to the pitch wearing the colours of Manchester United.

Eric Cantona was a mercurial Frenchman who was blessed with an overabundance of football talent and cursed with an overabundance of gallic emotion, as can be see in the photo, where Eric is gently applying his cleats to the chest of a spectator who referred to the French race as a bunch of cheese eating surrender monkeys.

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