Ever since his infamous "seagulls and trawler" speech, delivered in 1995 after he was banned from football for nine months, Eric Cantona has been known to be good for a quote.
So it was that, upon receiving the UEFA President's Award from Aleksander Ceferin at Thursday's Champions League group-stage draw, the former Manchester United forward delivered -- how can we best describe it? -- an "idiosyncratic" acceptance speech.
Wins the 2019 UEFA President's Award... Gives bizarre cryptic speech to confuse everyone in attendance.
Eric Cantona, ladies and gentlemen ud83dude02 pic.twitter.com/qNgZB0cFoW"Soon the science will not only be able to slow down the ageing of the cells, soon the science will fix the cells to the state and so we will become eternal.