Maurice Watkins can still remember the conversation with Eric Cantona which spawned the famous “seagulls and trawlers” speech that became one of the defining moments of the Frenchman’s career. “Eric wrote it out and he checked the meaning of certain words, ‘what’s the big boat that catches fish? “He had a drink of water, said his piece and then left me to explain it,” Watkins says. So how does Watkins remember it? “I think one legal periodical called it the most famous common assault in the history of the English legal system,” he said.

Source: Express January 24, 2020 17:26 UTC