It is a sad day for fans of Premier league football everywhere. We will no longer be able to tune in to Match of the Day or Sky Sports News and hear the amazingly over the top and outright crazy remarks of Paolo Di Canio.
The fiery Italian was sacked last night after 22 months in charge at the Stadium of Light. After leading his side to just three victories in thirteen games since his appointment, it is fair to say he didn’t exactly adhere himself to the Sunderland faithful. Aside from a derby-day victory against Newcastle United back in April which left one Geordie so irate he infamously punched a horse, Di Canio’s side have been mainly terribly interspersed with periods of uselessness. But even still it seems a little early in the season to start getting rid of managers. After spending over £30million in the summer transfer window on fourteen new players you have to feel this sort of trust in a manager would have extended beyond the second month of the new season.
Di Canio can be accused of many things, and indeed he was accused of being a fascist when he first arrived at Sunderland, but being boring is certainly not one of them. Whether he was banning players from drinking coffee before training, exiling them to the reserves for visiting casinos, or questioning their intelligence and ability in front of the TV cameras, Di Canio was guaranteed to entertain. Unfortunately for him he was far more entertaining than his team and the final straw came in Saturdays defeat at West Brom.
At the final whistle Di Canio made his way to the Sunderland supporters and, standing a safe distance back, preceded to gesture apologetically as his own fans chanted “you’re getting sacked in the morning”. I just hope they made it to the bookies in time to put that bet on.
With Di Canio having fallen by the wayside it is left to Ian Holloway and Jose Mourinho to keep reporters supplied with entertaining sound bites and who knows, maybe one of the other Premier league managers will take up the baton and say something interesting for once; we can but live in hope.
Roberto Di Matteo is the current favourite to replace his fellow Italian with Gus Poyet and Tony Pulis amongst the other front runners.
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