No apologies from PDC

PAOLO Di Canio has made it clear he DID NOT apologise to John O’Shea in the wake of criticising his captain for conceding a penalty and getting sent off at Crystal Palace.

The head coach publicly slated O’Shea a fortnight ago after the defender’s mistake at Selhurst Park sent Sunderland spiralling to a 3-1 defeat.

Those outspoken comments drew criticisms of their own, with many suggesting it was ill-advised for Di Canio to dress down his skipper in public.

And it was reported earlier this week that the Italian had rang O’Shea the day after the game to apologise for his comments.

But Di Canio has insisted there was no apology and he stands by his original statements – even though he is quick to point out that he also stands fully behind his skipper.

“It is not true that I rang John O’Shea the next day to apologise,” he told the Echo.

“That’s not because I feel that it is wrong to apologise if you do something wrong – if you do something wrong, you should apologise.

“But there was nothing for me to apologise for.

“The way that phone call was interpreted by the media shows that people do not understand my relationship with my players.”

Di Canio then went on to explain exactly what he did say to the former Manchester United man.

“When there is a problem in a game, I have my say. I am very, very clear. And then 10 minutes later, it is finished. We move on,” he said.

“The day after the game, I did ring John O’Shea, but not to apologise. I rang to encourage him.

“The conversation was meant to be private but it has come out, so I can tell people about it – it was a very natural conversation.

“I said to him: ‘How do you feel John?’ He said: ‘I have had better days’.

“And I said to him: ‘Don’t be down’. And I said in a fun way: ‘Forget the rubbish mistake you made yesterday!

“‘Now you must think about the next two games,’ I said to him. ‘The internationals – because your country is very important to you and you have to put the league game behind you and focus on these international games’.

“I said that he must be positive on international duty and then come back to the club more positive than ever.

“This is my relationship with my players.

“John O’Shea is my captain, he is my leader and I can talk about his mistakes – it does not mean that I don’t rate him as one of the top, top players at the club and he knows that.”

 

Where's this from mate? seems the journos are intent on dragging this one out as long as they can.

 

I know its getting boring now. Sunderlandecho.

 

Strange that mate from our own paper, slow day maybe?

 

That's true, but I'm liking the guy more and more now!

 

I'm all for free speech and rolling with it but somebody from the club really needs to bring PDC to the side for some PR training.

As manager of SAFC, PDC doesn't need to answer to anybody, or explain his actions to anybody. We all know the media are a lying pack of rats and therefore PDC ought to forget about trying to explain any situation in a moral and correct context because the media arn't interested in portraying anybody in an uprighteous light.

Joe Kinnear spoke from the heart about 'You're a kernt' and most of us agree with Kinnear (aswell as having a good laugh that it had to be Newcastle where the outburst came from). However PDC really has no reason to answer or explain anything to these maggots.

Could you ever imagine Ferguson trying to explain his actions? No, because he knows he doesn't have to.

 

Not just the media, rival and some of our own fans. They know best of course. It's almost like they're at training to see it themselves they get so adamant. Nut Sacks.

 

Don't need to. He's done it. Sir Alex also snubbed the media for the way they twisted stories. See a lot of Sir Alex in Paolo me. I mean, Paolo is still young and naive at the moment but they share the same sentiments. I reckon Paolo will go on to be a fine manager.

 

As do I and I'm not saying that PDC needs a 3 year degree in PR. A pull to the side and "Hay Paolo, why are you trying to explain your actions to these kernts mate, they don't have any interest in the truth" would be suffice.

By trying to explain situations, he would appear to be trying to control an uncontrollable environment. The media will always drag up new stories and distort his words from now until he leaves the club.

The media are only able to string along a story aslong as the food to feed on exists. No comments or refusal to comment will snub out these stories quicker and make the media work harder to find silly little stories. As more and more silly little stories come out people will no longer view PDC in a bad light because they will be desensitized by all the groundless stories.

At the end of the day, if Paolo wants to go to 2 toe and feels as though he is able to take on the media and their myriad of false rumours without it all affecting his mentality on the training pitch then good on him.

 

Oh I agree with you mate. Just the Sir Alex thing I disagreed with. Sir Alex had a rocky relationship with the media. I think Paolo will learn the only way his personality will learn. With time and experience. The problem with the Media is this. Paolo will do most of his interviews for safctv or whatever it's called. The media then take that interview and twist it for their own means.

 

I think PDC is having to learn the lesson that being a PL manager brings a lot more media attention than being at Swindon, and especially when you're considered more controversial than most.

He needs to learn quickly, and while I like his honesty, he does need to dial it back a bit in the press - stop giving the bastads ammunition !