Paolo Di Canio to make his Premier League return? (video)

Paolo Di Canio this week made a fiery departure from his post as manager of League One side Swindon Town sparking rumour that the Italian is in line for a return to the Premier League as boss of his beloved West Ham United.

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Paolo putting his money where his mouth is

Paolo di Canio, Swindon Town’s eccentric Italian manager, has recently spoken to the BBC about many issues in what appears to be a new column of his. 

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Referees: love them or hate them, we can't play without them

With John Obi Mikel recently receiving a three-match ban and a £60,000 fine for threatening referee Mark Clattenburg, just how consistent is punishment for the abuse of officials?

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The East End Pele (Video)

These days Paolo di Canio is a little more subdued as manager of Swindon Town. By his standards anyway.

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Questions! Questions!

I wonder sometimes whether or not football reporters have a set list of questions prepared that they ask following the game.

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Great players don't always make great managers

If Alan Shearer is the answer then what is the question?

Certainly not “who would be the ideal candidate to take control of a struggling Championship club who have taken only 7 points this season”?

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14 years ago this week, Di Canio had a meltdown (Video)

14 years ago this week, Paolo Di Canio ensured that at Sheffield Wednesday and perhaps in English football, he would forever be remembered not for his ability with a football but for pushing referee Paul Alcock to the ground (that is until his recent outbursts as manager of Swindon) in a league match at home to Arsenal.

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Inside the dressing room

Paolo di Canio’s public defamation of his goalkeeper Wes Foderingham has become an instant viral hit (‘League WAN’). Rarely has a manager been so unashamedly critical of one of their players in front of the media, stating that the player must apologise to everybody or risk never playing for Swindon again. Can you imagine Arsene Wenger telling Match of the Day that if he sees Giroud miss another chance he will send him back to France immediately?

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Harry Redknapp: Past, Present and Future

Twenty nine years after beginning his managerial career in 1983, Harry Redknapp has come full circle after re-joining his first club in a voluntary advisory role. This serves as the perfect excuse to look back on Redknapp's CV to date and asks what may lie in the future for the man who was overlooked by England and sacked by Tottenham during last season.

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Di Canio blocks his own route to the top (Video)

It should be of no surprise that Swindon Town's hot-headed manager Paolo Di Canio has been in the headlines this week, the Italian courting controversy and talking-point like no other in the usually humdrum world of League One.

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If AVB or Rodgers had done what Di Canio did, they would’ve been crucified (Video)

Ah Paolo Di Canio. Fans have warmed to. The media as well. Your no nonsense approach to managing Swindon Town and responses to questions thrown your way not only makes people think, but also provokes a humorous response and is a breath of fresh air in a world where managers are providing answers which not only gauge the audience, but bore them half to death.

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Di Canio goalkeeper rant. Priceless (video)

The Italian certainly has his own style. As a player at West Ham and Lazio, he was eccentric to say the least. From pushing referees over, to his act of sportsmanship against Everton when their ’keeper lay injured, he is certainly unpredictable, which we have seen mirrored in his early management career.

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The President is the Enemy

In England, football fans often grumble about the owners of their club and the way it’s being run, many of us have witnessed or been involved in sit-in protests, but that is nothing compared to how Lazio’s Ultras feel about club President Claudio Lotito.

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