The player claims that Houllier cost him a World Cup winners` medal. The two have not spoken in six years and Ginola said: "He tried to kill me as a player and he almost killed my grandfather. He made him very ill by what he said and did to me."
With France only three minutes away from a place in the 1994 World Cup finals, Ginola gave the ball away when he tried to play his way out of defence. France`s opponents, Bulgaria, raced down the wing, crossed and scored to put France out of the qualifying picture.
Houllier was the French manager at the time and branded Ginola a `war criminal` after his error and never picked him for his country again. Ginola continued: "Houllier went on TV and said I was a criminal. My grandfather almost died when he heard him. He was 85 years old and had followed my career since I was a kid.
"When I returned to Paris everyone booed me because of what this guy Gerard Houllier said.
"When France won the World Cup without me it was one of the worst moments of my life. Houllier cost me my place."
