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Post by rjdgull on Feb 19, 2013 18:37:23 GMT
I see that the mad Italian has left Swindon.... link Obviously a lot going on behind the scenes but football league approval still hasn't come through for the Swindon takeover to proceed and Di Canio has had enough and walked - ironically, a win at Tranmere tonight would see them go top - not many would leave in that situation but maybe he feels that he has proved enough and can look for another club where he can splash the cash. I think he has done well enough there but had the resources at his disposal that other clubs could only dream of amd mad to think we were his closest rivals for a time whereby he couldn't re-loan Bodin back to us! |
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Post by JamesB on Feb 19, 2013 18:42:28 GMT
I'd take him
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2013 19:19:35 GMT
I wouldn't. Di Canio is a self-proclaimed and unrepentant fascist, and while that might not matter to some fans it certainly does to me. He is also barmy. Just go onto You Tube and watch his assault on Paul Alcock, or his falling out with Leon Clarke. If I were chairman of any club I would find a long bargepole and use it to keep him away. Dreadful man. |
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Post by JamesB on Feb 19, 2013 20:16:17 GMT
Having read up on him many times, I don't believe he is a fascist. It's more about the connections to Lazio and the political/cultural heritage of that club. I don't believe he holds fascist beliefs. And as far Leon Clarke, the fact that he has moved on from just about every club he has been at despite obvious ability suggests that that falling-out wasn't Paolo's doing
I think Paolo would wake a few of these players up and also get a lot more people through the gates, which is what we sorely need. But he won't come cheap
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2013 20:49:58 GMT
Sorry, James, but this is a snippet from that left wing rag the Daily Telegraph:
As a boy, di Canio was initiated as an "ultra", or extreme supporter, of SS Lazio (the initials stand for Societá Sportiva), a team founded by Italian army officers in 1900 and the preferred club of Benito Mussolini, "Il Duce", one of the founders of fascism.
The player has, in his autobiography, praised Mussolini as "basically a very principled, ethical individual" who was "deeply misunderstood".
He has the word "Dux", the Latin equivalent of "Duce", tattooed on his arm.
Lazio's connection with fascists has not waned over the years. When di Canio gave his first salute, in a game against the city's other major club, Lazio's hated rivals AS Roma, last January, the crowd included Il Duce's granddaughter Alessandra Mussolini.
"What a delightful Roman salute!" she exclaimed afterwards.
"I was deeply moved.
"I will write him a thank you note."
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Post by JamesB on Feb 19, 2013 21:25:19 GMT
There is a lot of nostalgia in Italy for Mussolini. I don't think that necessarily corroborates with half of the Italian population being fascist You have taen the "Mussolini was misunderstood" quote out of context, as a great interview by the Independent explains - the full quote is "I think he was a deeply misunderstood individual. He deceived people. His actions were often vile. But all this was motivated by a higher purpose. He was basically a very principled individual. Yet he turned against his sense of right and wrong. He compromised his ethics." Now I don't think calling someone's actions "vile" is "praising" him - far from it As the article goes on to say: 'The truth is that – today at least – you don't have to spend long with Di Canio to realise he is not a demented fascista; neither does he have any time for the sort of repugnant racial opinions held by at least two English Premier League footballers I can think of (and that's without even trying). While he was in Italy, his column in the national sport newspaper Corriere dello Sport routinely took the form of a rant against the idiocy of racism.
"The truth is very simple," said one respected source who knows Di Canio well, but was insistent that his name should not appear in this article. "Paolo is not, and has never been, a bad person, or an ideological fascist. Certain things he has said and done – like the salute with the Lazio fans – have to do with his psychological history, particularly his former compulsive tendencies and pronounced mood swings. Paolo is not mad. But he has had, as he describes in his autobiography... episodes."'www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/paolo-di-canio-my-life-speaks-for-me-6273526.htmlThe fact is Paolo is a product of a working class Italian upbringing and association with the ultras of a club with a history of fascism. Calling him a fascist because of that is just using him as an easy target for superficial reasons - it would be like saying Prince Harry is a Nazi because he wore a Nazi uniform once. It's pretty clear for me, reading what he has said and what other people have said about him, that he's not a fascist - he's more passionate about the ways of the samurai |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2013 10:40:27 GMT
You mean the Telegraph quoted someone out of context? What is the world coming to?
OK then, laddie. I'll take your word for it that di Canio is mad rather than bad, but no more fascist salutes please, Paolo. Actually, my nephew used to be the chef at an Italian restaurant in Sheffield when Di Canio and Benito Carbone played for Wednesday, and he found di Canio to be a friendly and engaging character when not on the field. Didn't care much for Carbone, though.
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Post by lambethgull on Feb 23, 2013 0:40:17 GMT
"I think he was a deeply misunderstood individual. He deceived people. His actions were often vile. But all this was motivated by a higher purpose. He was basically a very principled individual. Yet he turned against his sense of right and wrong. He compromised his ethics."  |
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