The 2024/25 Premier League campaign kicked off with a bang on Friday night as Eric Cantona walked off set during coverage of Manchester United vs Fulham. The Frenchman was working as a pundit for the Premier League's direct feed for the opening game of the season. He was set to provide coverage of the match alongside another former Red Devil in Owen Hargreaves.
Cantona was acting strangely throughout the show, though, and it all culminated in him randomly getting up and appearing to walk off of the set after being asked a question about what fans could expect this year. While the Frenchman is known for his outbursts in the past, this felt a little out of left field and it's now been revealed by SPORTbible that the whole situation was a marketing stunt . Joshua Zirkzee was the debut hero as United scraped a late win over Fulham on the opening weekend Cantona was Advertising a Subscription Service Called Showmax Throughout his work in the studio, Cantona was acting quite bizarrely.
First, he was asked to reveal who he thought would finish as the Premier League's top scorer by host Julia Stewart and rather than give an in depth answer, he simply said: "We'll see." Things only got weirder when the presenter asked him what the Premier League season had in store for the millions of fans watching on television. Cantona laughed and replied: "Television.
.." before standing up and removing his microphone.
He then walked off the set, but not before delivering a monologue to the camera. .