TV review: Cantona is a better actor than footballer, and that’s saying something

— it helps that he has a belter of a story here, where he plays a man on the edge

Eric Cantona in Inhuman Resources

I wasn’t going to watch Inhuman Resources (Netflix). Eric Cantona sailed into English football in the 1990s, won everything, karate kicked a thug and then left again after a series of cryptic quotes for the press. (That he made up just to see if they tried to analyse them. They did.) He is the coolest human being of all time, particularly if you are lucky enough to be a Manchester United fan, like me.

I don’t want anything to tarnish that, so I’ve steered clear of his acting career. Never meet your heroes or watch them in a six-part drama on Netflix sort of thing. My wife knows next to nothing about Cantona, so she put Inhuman Resources on and there he was in the first scene.