10 January, 2012

Cometh the hour...

The happy news reaches us that footballer turned actor Eric Cantona is to try for the French Presidency.

Voters now have to decide which is the least absurd candidate from tiny, unpleasant Nicolas Sarkozy; dull serial failure François Hollande; chauvinist firebrand Marine Le Pen; smooth, ineffectual François Villepin; and about eight others you have never heard of and never will again. And 'King Eric'.

Qualifications? In 1995, after aiming a kung-fu style kick at a football fan, Cantona said to a press conference 'When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much.' He then got up and left.

Yes. For my money, oo-aa-Cantona might just edge it.

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