I couldn’t employ Paolo Di Canio, says West Ham's David Sullivan Speaking out: David Sullivan 04 April 2013 West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan today insisted he would not consider former player Paolo di Canio as a future manager of the club because of his fascist views. Di Canio, who was appointed as the new Sunderland manager this week, was linked with a return to West Ham earlier this season but, writing in today’s Independent, Sullivan said the 44-year-old should not manage in England until he has renounced his political beliefs. “Fascism is always intolerable but managers, like owners, have an additional duty to the wider community,” said Sullivan. “That is why, despite having once considered him a future manager of West Ham, my partner David Gold and I wouldn’t do so now — unless he renounced his extreme views. “Paolo di Canio is in the top rank of West Ham legends. He has been a tremendous supporter of the club for years and, whenever I’ve met him, struck me as charming, intelligent and what you might call Italian in the extreme. For all these reasons, I find it very hard to criticise him — but harder still to swallow the events of this week. Put simply, Paolo should not be managing a club until he has convincingly renounced fascism.” Di Canio yesterday issued a statement claiming he does not support ideology of fascism but Sullivan said: “The statement he issued was, if not too late, certainly too broad. Until he provides a clear refutation of his previous position, we’ll have to assume he thinks fascism and football can get along. Sunderland should not have appointed him manager.” What a very principled man Sullivan seems, . ****ing arsehole. Ask the West Ham fans who they'd want & I bet the vast majority would say PDC. http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...io-says-west-hams-david-sullivan-8559978.html
Billy mate, matbe you should have a look at this then, divvnt laugh mind. http://www.hospitality.whufc.com/west-ham-paolo-di-canio-lounge.php
that is quite incredible hypocrisy of the highest order. what a ****ing pair of doughnuts gold and sullivan are - they sound like they've written a musical, but are simply writing their own trajicom. I hope they go down, just so they lose are their ill-gotten gains the pair of ****ers. nee offence to hammers fans.
I've a strong affiliation with West Ham Comm. Always have had since the early '80's when some Hammers lads saved me from a good kicking. Everybody was taking notice of this big black lad & it wasn't until several years later I found out it was Cass Pennant. I don't think there's ever been much beef between us & them, not that I can recall. Plus, they hate the mags when they threw that petrol bomb at Sid's Park. Like us, they are a community club built on working class conditions & Gold & Sullivan are gonna **** that up big time. Not to mention that broomstick riding slag Brady.
Same, never had a problem with them.. When i was living in surrey, my best mate was a hammer, we went to upton park several times, (think we got beat 6-0 or 6-1 one time) still a cracking day. This same fella was at roker park, when we played them a few days after bobby moore died, he often speaks about the great people of sunderland.
Aye, I've never bought into all this "Cockney's are ****ers" crap. Worked with lads from all over the UK. Good & bad wherever you go mate.
Names of pubs, man, ffs...? Reet beside the ground, ****ing myself, keeping stum, then an explosion of red and white, inside and out of the places.... These were some of the first away games i went to whilst away, and then i realised, travelling was not a chore, Millwall was fun, several times, but it became the norm, everywhere was the same people... Midweek in Nottingham, then back for work, ****holes like Watford and the allotments... Damn.
**** me I was at that game kidda. I was in Crocodillos in Chester with me pal and at 12 midnight one of the lads came by and said he was off to the game. We just jumped in the mini bus and went to the game as well. 10 lads knocking a pub landlord up at 9am in the middle of London. What a ****ing weekend that turned out to be. Young and daft.......must have been friggin mental actually. Lol The good old days when you didnt need to give 3 months planning to go to away games and when it was a brilliant weekend away on the piss with some of the best lads I've ever met in my life..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/west-ham/9098536/West-Ham-United-co-chairman-David-Sullivan-opens-up-on-the-club-he-supports-and-now-part-owns.html An interview with none other than David Sullivan from just over a year ago. ID: What do you make of Mr Di Canio’s start in management? DS: Good! Very impressed! ID: Did you ever consider him seriously? DS: I met him, and I said in the nicest possible way, while my heart would … you cannot have a rookie manager. I actually said, you’ve got to take a lower league club. He’s had a little bit of financial support at Swindon and that does make a big difference in that division. I’m not belittling what he has done at all. If he does it next year in a higher division you start to think perhaps he’s very very good at it. It’s like the Huddersfield manager. He did well, but he had money to spend and he had layers on high wages. The counter argument is that he got Jordan Rhodes for two bob from Ipswich so he’s a good judge of players. I do watch for the Swindon results every week. He’s got passion, there's’ no doubt about that. And he loves West Ham. I’d like nothing better than in five years’ time to be in the Champion’s League, Sam’s got the England job, Di Canio’s just got Swindon promotion to the Premier League, and we pinch him! But that’s five years down the line. I feel he’s got to do two or three years of establishing himself and his credentials. Ron Noades won Division 2 with Brentford, but he couldn’t do it in League 1. Just because you can win League 2 doesn’t necessarily mean … But it’s a great start. ID: Whenever you read an interview with Paolo, all he wants to talk about is West Ham. DS: He loves West Ham and West Ham loves him. He’s on a par with Tévez with the supporters but last summer we had to go for safety. We looked at lots of managers and two of them are now doing very, very well. We looked at the Watford manager [Malky Mackay] who’s now at Cardiff, we looked at Chris Hughton, who’s at Birmingham and they’ve both done fantastic jobs. We went for Sam because we wanted experience. Having made one mistake, we wanted to play as safe as we possibly could. With Paolo, if we’d brought him in then, had he done badly we’d have looked so stupid. Also, it’s a bit like Paul Ince, if you fail at high level you find it difficult to start again lower down, not that I am making a case for Paul Ince! [Iain laughs]. He did an OK job at Milton Keynes, he bombed out at Blackburn, you really want to see someone earn their apprenticeship as a manager. You get some top class footballer who wants to come straight in as a Premier League manager, well not many do it. Dickhead. Clearly jumped on the bandwagon... The problem then was lack of experience, not his apparent fascist views. Doesn't mention his supposed fascist views once when talking about why he didn't get the job. ****ing hypocrite
Yep mate, hoped on a train or bus and off we go... Didn't we also miss a penalty in that game, and chants of 'we want one more'...
more hypocrisy demands Paolo answers questions about fascism yet... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt9elfwV8cU refuses to answer questions himself dickhead
Ahhh...So that's Lipton...I bet he still lives with his Mam. He's nowt but a arrogant little blob of sterile Horse Jizz.
GReat find mate. What an arrogant up his own arse this **** really is. Makes me feel a whole lot better about this now, as had he been a real serious hack, instead of this pretendy cock sucking version, he may have carried some clout. As it is he should concentrate on his nightly bedwetting and leave the serious journalism to real reporters.
