Three decades to the day have gone by since Eric Cantona’s infamous kung-fu kick on a Crystal Palace supporter at Selhurst Park – but, it seems, the intervening years have not served to mellow the Frenchman’s outlook on that January night in 1995.
Why did Cantona kick the fan?
Having been sent off for lashing out at Palace defender Richard Shaw as the sides played out a 1-1 Premier League draw, the Manchester United attacker was trudging back to the dressing rooms when home fan Matthew Simmons allegedly shouted at him: “F**k off back to France”.
Cantona responded by launching himself feet first at Simmons in a skirmish that also saw punches thrown. Let’s remind ourselves of that moment.
In the wake of the incident, the United star was fined and eventually banned for nine months, as well as being sentenced to 120 hours’ community service.
But speaking to the magazine FourFourTwo as part of an interview in which he answered readers’ questions, Cantona remained unrepentant. “I didn’t punch him strong enough,” declared the 49-year-old. “I should have punched him harder.”
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It has been 30 years since one of the most infamous incidents in Premier League history: the kung-fu fan attack involving Eric Cantona and a Crystal Palace supporter. The incident occurred on January 25, 1995, during a match between Manchester United and Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
In the 48th minute of the match, Cantona was sent off for a foul on Crystal Palace defender Richard Shaw. As he made his way off the pitch, a Palace supporter, Matthew Simmons, shouted abuse at Cantona. In a shocking turn of events, Cantona launched himself over the advertising hoardings and delivered a kung-fu kick to Simmons before punching him multiple times.
The incident sparked outrage and led to Cantona being banned from football for eight months and sentenced to 120 hours of community service. But what was perhaps even more surprising was the reaction from some fans and pundits.
While most condemned Cantona’s actions, there were some who praised him for standing up to the abuse he had received. Some even went as far as to defend his actions, arguing that Simmons had provoked Cantona and deserved what he got.
Looking back on the incident 30 years later, it serves as a reminder of the passion and intensity of football, as well as the sometimes surprising reactions it can elicit. Cantona’s kung-fu fan attack will forever be etched in Premier League history, a moment that continues to divide opinion to this day.
Iowa State will recognize the 1999-00 and 2000-01 teams that won back-to-back Big 12 regular season titles.
“They did so much for our program. The successes they had was tremendous,” said current head coach T.J. Otzelberger. “It’s not just a great player or players, it’s it takes an army of people to do that. It’s coaches, managers, players, top to bottom, so (it’s) awesome that we’re able to have those guys back, to be able to honor them and show them the respect that they deserve for everything that they’ve done for our program and putting us in the position that we’re in now.”
The head coach of those teams was Larry Eustachy. The Eustachy era infamously ended abruptly after he was caught at the University of Missouri drinking with college-aged adults in 2003. After resigning from Iowa State, Eustachy entered rehab.
“It’s easy to handle adversity, but when you have success, I didn’t handle it. I was all over the place, you know, I was insecure deep down,” Eustachy said on the Williams & Blum Podcast on CycloneFanatic.com. “I think it’s all God’s plan. I really do because the way it went down, I think I helped a lot of people who struggle with with addiction.”
When Eustachy is at Hilton Coliseum on Saturday, it’ll be his first time back since the Hilton Magic All-Star charity game in 2006. He’s returning to a place that’s special to him.
“I didn’t realize just what an unbelievable university it was,” Eustachy said. “As a coach you’re in a coma, and it’s just the next game, the next practice, the next recruit, and I didn’t realize how special I had, it. It’s my all-time school. I mean, I’m a Cyclone.”
The Cyclones play Baylor at 1 p.m. on CBS.
Larry Eustachy, the former Iowa State University men’s basketball coach who gained infamy for his controversial coaching tactics, will be honored alongside his squads at Hilton Coliseum.
Eustachy, who coached the Cyclones from 1998 to 2003, was known for his intense coaching style and fiery personality. However, his tenure at Iowa State was marred by off-court incidents, including a widely publicized scandal involving photographs of him at a college party.
Despite the controversy surrounding him, Eustachy led the Cyclones to multiple NCAA tournament appearances and Big 12 championships during his time at Iowa State. His teams were known for their gritty play and determination on the court.
Now, more than a decade after his departure from Iowa State, Eustachy will be honored alongside his former squads at a special ceremony at Hilton Coliseum. The event will celebrate the accomplishments of Eustachy and his players, and will serve as a reminder of the impact they had on the Iowa State basketball program.
While Eustachy’s coaching methods may have been controversial, there is no denying the success he brought to Iowa State during his time as head coach. This ceremony will be a fitting tribute to his contributions to the program, and a chance for fans to remember the highs and lows of his time at Iowa State.
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Rain drenches an anonymous street in Los Angeles, which is standing in for an anonymous city that won’t be named. Two A-list actors, playing polar opposite detectives assigned to a frightening and ominous case, stand around and wait for their turn to step on set, where they’re poised to discover the next atrocity left for them by a mysterious serial killer named John Doe.
But in this specific moment, director David Fincher is just trying to figure out how to get the body of character actor Michael Reid McKay, transformed into the victim we’ll come to know as Sloth, onto the set without disrupting the man’s intricate makeup job.
That’s just one of many unexpected challenges facing David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network, Zodiac) as he labored on Seven, the mesmerizing dark-noir thriller that cast Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as cops tracking a killer whose victims are modeled after the Seven Deadly Sins. It’s an ingenious hook, designed by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker. But it was Fincher’s meticulous execution of the crimes that burrowed under the skin of moviegoers back in 1995, and helped make Seven an unforgettable achievement that earned its place in the pop-culture pantheon of contemporary masterpieces.
I’m not sure Fincher knew he was creating a masterpiece at the time of filming. The former music-video director was coming off of a disastrous shoot with Alien 3, was focused on establishing himself and his own voice, and had to deal with a difficult schedule attached to one of his leading men. (More on that in a second). And then, there was this damn Sloth body… the one that wakes up mid-investigation, and scares the daylights out of John C. McGinley (Scrubs).
Speaking with CinemaBlend on behalf of a 30th anniversary 4K UHD release of Seven (which arrives on January 7), Fincher started reminiscing about that particular Deadly Sin, telling us:
The makeup effects endured by our wonderful Sloth took, I’m going to say, six or seven hours. Michael’s call, I think it was midnight in order to have him on set. The makeup was applied, and then he had to be transported in a – because they were gelatin, he had to be transported in a semi-refrigerated, not an ambulance, but a van. And then he had to be carried on that bed, because there were all kinds of wires and stuff that went to… I forget exactly what it was. We had tubes and wires and stuff running into (his body). So he was literally medevaced up the stairs into the giant penny building, placed, and then art directed into that.
Insanity. And that’s only one Deadly Sin – and only one of the more amazing stories that David Fincher happily shared about the making of his magnificent detective thriller. Dive into CinemaBlend’s exclusive conversation about the making of Seven.
Morgan Freeman in Seven
‘We only had 58 days with Brad.’
The beauty of Seven lies in its economy. Scripter Andrew Kevin Walker relies on a few familiar detective tropes to plunge us into the story – an inexperienced but eager hotshot cop (Brad Pitt) gets paired with a grizzled detective (Morgan Freeman) trying to survive one last case – but then takes the narrative through some unforeseen, disturbing avenues that helped Seven stand apart from the crowd. Walker and Fincher weren’t afraid to pull back the curtain on the darkest sins of humanity, holding up a mirror to some truly disgusting people that had us asking difficult questions about the victims, the killer, and even the cops investigating the crimes.
Speaking with Fincher about his relationships with these memorable characters, and how he made them more than their archetypes, the director told CinemaBlend:
I would frighten you by telling you that… I feel it’s essential, if you are going to be effectively enabling an actor to give you their best, you’d better relate to all of (the characters). So, I hate to tell you, I relate to John Doe. And I relate to Tracy. And I relate to Somerset. And yeah, certainly, I relate to Mills. But you know, that’s the job.
It’s one portion of the job. The rest often comes down to solving impossible problems as you keep the entire production on schedule. As mentioned, Fincher and Walker seemed to strip the Seven narrative down to its essence. Over the course of one week, Detectives Mills (Pitt) and Somerset (Freeman) would encounter a new victim every day of the week, leading to a confrontation with the Big Bad. Fincher had a vision. But as a relative newcomer to the world of feature films, he found that he had to fight tooth and nail for each supplement he hoped to add.
Here’s an amazing example. During our conversation, Fincher spoke about the riveting finale in the desert, where Mills and Somerset agree to accompany John Doe (Kevin Spacey) to a pre-determined location. The cops are accompanied by an entourage of law enforcement… only, Fincher said he ran into one major obstacle. He told CinemaBlend:
Originally, we ran out of time. We only had 58 days with Brad. Brad left at the end of 58 days. (And) New Line wouldn’t give us the money to shoot – they didn’t feel that the helicopters were necessary. They were like, ‘Well, let’s see how it goes, and we’ll decide whether we can give you the money to shoot the helicopters.’ So we shot the sequence, and then we lost Brad.
Can you imagine the Seven finale without the aerial shots of the helicopters surrounding Mills and Somerset as they play the final mind game with John Doe? That feeling of hovering over the action, almost struggling to keep everything in focus because the helicopters are moving, adds to the dread and uncertainty that Fincher establishes in the moment. Of course, there’s the brilliant moment when Mills learns what’s in the box. But after he kills John Doe – and completes the serial killer’s mission – we get that incredible improvisation of John C. McGinley shouting into the helicopter headset microphone:
Christ. Somebody call somebody.
Thankfully, as David Fincher explained to us, Pitt’s schedule cooperated. And New Line executives realized what kind of a gem they had in their hands, because they relented. A month after Pitt wrapped shooting on 12 Monkeys, New Line approved nine days of pickup shots, sending Fincher and crew scrambling back to the desert to complete the project. As Fincher recalled:
That McGinley line … was (done) on the looping stage. And he said, ‘I think at the end, I should say something.’ And I go, ‘Well, what do you think you would say?’ And he goes, ‘I don’t know. I think I’d be so upset, I should say (something).’ And I said, ‘What if you just say, “Somebody down there, do something!”’ And then he riffed on it like four or five times. … I remember thinking, if you just have a non sequitur that just feels like somebody giving up. ‘We’re not going to be able to affect anything here. There’s not… it’s done. It’s over. It is what it is.’ And that’s what he came up with.
I’ll never be able to think of that scene without hearing McGinley’s exasperated plea. And now I won’t watch the scene without thinking that the helicopter shots almost weren’t part of it. Because that would have been a huge mistake.
Brad Pitt in Seven
‘John Doe has the upper hand.’
Of course, one of the more legendary moves pulled off by Seven was the casting of Kevin Spacey as John Doe, and then hiding his identity until the final-act reveal. Yes, we now know that Spacey appeared earlier in the movie, and got chastised by Mills for photographing a crime scene. But the reveal of Doe’s true identity matched up with some other late-game twists that were happening at the movies at that time… and also involving Spacey.
Did you realize that Bryan Singer’s crime thriller The Usual Suspects, with Spacey in a pivotal role, opened in theaters one month before Fincher dropped Seven? Because Fincher knew. And as he told CinemaBlend, it caused him more than a little agita. The director explained:
In all fairness, I did not know at the time that we shook hands with Kevin and said, ‘Show up next Monday, let’s begin,’ nobody knew who fucking Keyser Soze was! (laughs) He had just wrapped that movie. And no one knew that he was playing this evil, twisted genius in that movie. And I probably, and smartly for Kevin, because I probably would’ve said, ‘How many twisted evil geniuses can you play in a year?’
It’d be difficult to imagine anyone but Spacey in the part of John Doe now. Just like it’d be really hard to look at a cardboard box on the set of Seven and not picture the head of Gwyneth Paltrow inside of it. Don’t expect Fincher to have the actual box on shelf somewhere, ready to be added to The David Fincher Museum when that exhibit is one day established.
As he tells CinemaBlend:
If you’re talking about a prop on a film that I made, you’re talking about one of three dozen. So no, the box… the idea that there’s one box is as cute as the idea of trying to bring an actor totally covered in gelatin and bedsores up three flights of stairs without anybody seeing it.
Everyone will be able to see it again, this time in 4K, when Warner Bros. puts Seven out on 4K UHD beginning on January 7.
David Fincher, the renowned director behind the iconic film Seven, recently sat down with us to discuss the film’s 30th anniversary. As we delved into the making of this psychological thriller, Fincher revealed some fascinating behind-the-scenes details.
One of the most challenging aspects of filming Seven was working around Brad Pitt’s busy schedule. Pitt, who played Detective David Mills, had a jam-packed itinerary, but Fincher and the crew managed to accommodate his commitments without compromising the production.
Another major hurdle was the intricate sloth makeup used in the film. Fincher described the painstaking process of transforming actor Bob Stephenson into the emaciated sloth victim, a task that required hours of delicate work to achieve the desired effect.
And of course, we couldn’t forget about the infamous box scene. Fincher recounted the impact of that shocking moment on audiences and how it has become a lasting symbol of the film’s dark, twisted narrative.
As Seven celebrates its 30th anniversary, Fincher’s insights shed new light on the film’s enduring legacy and the dedication that went into creating this unforgettable cinematic experience.
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In the dystopian world of Cyberpunk, the streets are filled with danger at every turn. Among the most notorious criminals are the infamous Jokers, a group of cybercriminals who revel in chaos and destruction. These elusive hackers have been wreaking havoc on the city for years, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
The Jokers are known for their sophisticated hacking skills and their ability to infiltrate even the most secure systems. They have been responsible for countless cyber attacks, from shutting down government servers to stealing sensitive data from corporations. Their motives are unclear, but their actions speak louder than words.
Law enforcement agencies have been trying to track down the Jokers for years, but their identities remain a mystery. They operate in the shadows, using encrypted communication channels and constantly changing their digital footprint to evade capture. Despite the best efforts of authorities, the Jokers always seem to be one step ahead.
But now, a new task force has been assembled to take down the infamous hackers once and for all. Led by a team of elite cybercrime experts, this group is determined to bring the Jokers to justice and put an end to their reign of terror. Using cutting-edge technology and advanced tracking methods, they are closing in on their targets.
The hunt for the Jokers has become a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, with both sides using all their resources to outsmart each other. The Jokers are constantly on the move, leaving behind a trail of digital breadcrumbs for the task force to follow. But with each new lead, the task force gets closer to uncovering the identities of the elusive hackers.
As the tension mounts and the stakes get higher, the city holds its breath, waiting to see who will emerge victorious in this high-tech battle of wits. Will the task force finally catch the Jokers and bring them to justice, or will the hackers slip through their fingers once again?
Only time will tell, but one thing is for certain – in the world of Cyberpunk, the most wanted criminals are always one step ahead. And the Jokers are no exception.
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In 2016, Marvel Comics introduced a new twist to the Iron Man saga with the debut of Infamous Iron Man #1. In this issue, readers were introduced to a new Iron Man – Dr. Doom. That’s right, Victor Von Doom, the infamous villain and long-time nemesis of the Fantastic Four, donned the Iron Man armor and took on the mantle of a hero.
But this wasn’t just any old version of Doom. In a surprising turn of events, it was revealed that Tony Stark had somehow transferred his consciousness into an artificial intelligence, effectively becoming the new AI for the Iron Man armor. This set the stage for a whole new chapter in the Iron Man saga, as Doom grappled with his newfound sense of heroism while dealing with the legacy of Tony Stark.
The Rise of Doom was a thrilling and unexpected storyline that kept readers on the edge of their seats. It explored themes of redemption, identity, and the complexities of heroism in a way that only Marvel Comics can deliver.
If you’re a fan of Iron Man or just looking for a fresh take on a classic character, be sure to check out Infamous Iron Man #1 and witness the rise of Doom in all its glory. It’s a must-read for any comic book enthusiast.
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Cybersecurity professionals are constantly facing new challenges as hackers become more sophisticated and brazen in their attacks. In order to stay ahead of the game, it’s important to study past cyberattacks to learn from their mistakes and improve our defenses. That’s why we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to cybersecurity’s most infamous hacks, featuring 70 case studies of cyberattacks that have rocked the industry.
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Rob Aalders’ life is a tale of transformation, from a small-time criminal to an infamous bank robber. His story is a cautionary one, showing how a life of crime can escalate quickly and lead to dire consequences.
Aalders grew up in a rough neighborhood, surrounded by crime and poverty. He started getting involved in petty theft and vandalism at a young age, thinking it was a way to make easy money. However, as he got older, his crimes became more serious and he started to attract the attention of law enforcement.
It wasn’t long before Aalders found himself in trouble with the law, serving time in prison for various offenses. But instead of learning his lesson and turning his life around, Aalders used his time in prison to network with other criminals and plan his next big heist.
In 2009, Aalders executed a daring bank robbery that made headlines across the country. He and his accomplices managed to steal over $1 million in cash and valuables, making it one of the largest bank robberies in recent history. Aalders became a wanted man, with law enforcement agencies across the country on the lookout for him.
After a months-long manhunt, Aalders was finally apprehended and sentenced to a lengthy prison term. His life of crime had caught up with him, and he was forced to pay the consequences for his actions. But even behind bars, Aalders remained unrepentant, boasting about his criminal exploits and becoming a cult figure among other inmates.
Rob Aalders’ story serves as a cautionary tale for anyone tempted to turn to a life of crime. What may start out as small-time offenses can quickly escalate into something much more serious, with devastating consequences for both the individual and those around them. Aalders’ fall from grace is a reminder that crime doesn’t pay, and that the thrill of breaking the law is fleeting compared to the long-term consequences.
