Why Di Canio was right to bash Ji and O'Shea

Saturday, 07 September 2013

Sunderland: Why Di Canio was right to bash Ji and O'Shea



It’s hard to sit here and speak from the voice of an objective journalist and not a livid fan regarding the events that have taken place on Wearside over the last couple of weeks. But what is objective journalism anyway!

In my last article Paolo Di Canio’s Revolution: Part 1, I spoke about the need for patience – and more players. Well, the transfer window has been closed three days and most fans, including myself are still disappointed about the quality (or lack thereof) of the two players brought in. But before you tell me to stop bashing us and get behind the team I assure you that I’ll always have faith in my team, I’m just running out of the patience I asked for…and it seems like Di Canio is as well.

Or perhaps he’s just come to the realisation that players like Seb Larsson and David Vaughan aren’t Premier League material anymore and he isn’t able to replace them with anything better due to the clubs’ new policy of only signing young prospects for the future. Whatever it was he let his feelings known during a press conference after the Crystal Palace game, laying into Captain John O’Shea and misfiring striker Ji-Dong Won. Were the fiery Italian’s post-match remarks simply a battle cry to his multinational squad for improved performances or a plea to the powers-that-be to supply him with the talent needed to sustain a credible upper-table campaign? Either way, his outspoken comments once again caused a stir within local circles and made headlines for the club for the wrong reasons.

Was he right to bash Ji and O’Shea? Absolutely, O’Shea is an internationally-recognized defender and can’t be making mistakes like the one that cost Sunderland the game at Selhurst Park, Ji, on the other hand simply can’t handle the physicality of the English game and is more suited to the Italian league, or German as he proved with his impressive displays for Augsburg. In my opinion Di Canio should have cashed in on him when Dortmund made a bid in July. There’s no doubting the Korean’s technical ability but he releases the ball too early and suffers from a lack of confidence, a disposition which many Korean’s have.

One argument that has come to the forefront of the dirt sheets is the amount of foreigners in the English game, and only the other day the FA implemented a new policy that enforces Premier League teams to have no more than 17 non-home grown players. Furthermore, FA chairman Greg Dyke came out to bash Newcastle and Sunderland for their influx of foreign signings over the last year, and one has to agree that it was a lack of communication that cost Sunderland the second goal against Palace. There didn’t appear to be any calls of man-on by O’Shea’s defensive partner, the Italian Modibo Diakite or from Czech full-back Ondrezj Celustka and this lack of English-speaking players could end-up costing the Black Cats Premier League survival like it did QPR last season.

Whatever happens between now and the end of the season, much like I do every season I’ll celebrate the highs and mourn the lows and experience what every die-hard Sunderland fan has been doing for decades. As the saying goes, “Sunderland til’ I die.”

Article by Sarshar Hosseinnia

 

Where's this article from fella? It's not great. Roker Report? Don't recognise the article author.

The bold bit particularly irritated me as it's making excuses for an individual error. JoS should have expected no time on the ball from that position and should have dealt with it.

 

Ditto

 

Whichever way it is dressed up, any manager who choses to publicly berate players is out of order IMHO.
Managers like Fergie, Robson and Wenger would always deal with issues 'in house'.

 

He didn't.

 

He didn't.

 

The irish manager did it today, saf did it on many an occasion including the boot incident with beckham, i've heard mourihno single out individuals, wenger aswell, sir bobby did it with england (might have done it with Fulham, Ipswich Town, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting CP, FC Porto, FC Barcelona or PSV Eindhoven aswell)

Its not just pdc it just the ****ing craas that are circulating

 

if you say so . .....

 

Often hear this one this one trotted out mate "the good managers don't do it" referring to PDCs apparent berating of players however neither did the **** ones so the whole point is well pointless.

 

Nail on heed ..... 'berating, slaying, bashing, etc' ............ ffs!

 

quick question how many.................. .................................. .............................. of these dots are left in your device

 

Too many for dullards like you to be able to count ..........

 

how do you know , it might run out of them , be conservative ,or risk it

 

Sorry, I can't be arsed with pointless drivel ...... carry on if you must, no one but you seems interested.

I'm away ..........

 

you are now the spokesman , turn around complete

 

I'm the spokesman for me and me alone ...... not interested in anyone else or what people think.

Hope that's clear.

 

dual standards again me thinks

 

Going by another string, looks like PDC disagrees with this string header, why else would he have apparently apologised to O'Shea?

 

I'd like to read what JOS has said about PDC apologising to him as if its true he has, then there was a problem behind the scenes about the outburst from the manager, or else why announce this apology at all? Dressing rooms are delicately political environments and PDC forgot to earn the right to criticise as he has only been here 5 mins.

If he doesn't try to take the dressing room with him on future, he may well find it leaves in another direction without him. Hopefully this rift has been properly healed.

 

True. He's not managing div2 journeymen. He needs to learn that lesson fast or we'll be looking for a sixth manager in five years.