Sunderland sack Di Canio

[QuartzGooner]

First Premiership managerial casualty, 22nd September!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24199626

[ElSquirrel]

I... I... I'm surprised!

No. I'm lying. I'm not surprised at all. I fully expected it. Not after the loss, but they way he approached the supporters and then babbled on after it. It was as if he told the powers that be to send him to the stands, up the steps, out of the stadium and into a taxi.

Bets on replacement? I'm thinking they'll make a pitch for 'arry.

[GranadaJoe]

So, you employ a fascist nutter and you it turns out you get a fascist nutter. Who'd have thought it?

I don't know much about the ownership setup at Sunderland but what were they thinking they would get when they appointed him?

[goonersid]

Couldn't happen to a more deserving little crunt.

[Bradywasking]

Listening to Paul McCarthy on SSN...The players were not allowed interact with other staff, like shake hands with the doorman etc on matchday. They were not allowed to speak to the staff at the training ground, and God help the staff if they approached a player. Di Cannio is a mad man...it is quirky at Swindon but plain stupid at Sunderland...despite all that is/was wrong with Di Cannio the bottom line is he isn't up to managing a top division side.
Oh but did you hear Lineker and Co on Saturday night , still on about the "poor referring " against Arsenal.

[augie]

Am shocked to be honest - he took over a stagnent club, was allowed to bring in a load of players and was then sacked before the players had a chance to settle If I was one of those new players then I would be seriously seriously pissed off especially if I was a foreigner - imagine uprooting your family to sunderland (without wishing to be disrespectful to the mackems but it is hardly prime location) only to then have the uncertainty of your future when a new manager joins.
Have to say that sunderland, much like villa last season, are getting what they deserve - you cannot constantly sell your best players and then expect to progress

[augie]

Listening to Paul McCarthy on SSN...The players were not allowed interact with other staff, like shake hands with the doorman etc on matchday. They were not allowed to speak to the staff at the training ground, and God help the staff if they approached a player. Di Cannio is a mad man...it is quirky at Swindon but plain stupid at Sunderland...despite all that is/was wrong with Di Cannio the bottom line is he isn't up to managing a top division side.
Oh but did you hear Lineker and Co on Saturday night , still on about the "poor referring " against Arsenal.

And we still (rightly) go on about mike riley ( ) screwing us over when we were about to go 50 games unbeaten A managers fortunes can turn on 1 game like (remember old ferguscum was one game away from the sack when his scum team beat forest away in the fa cup back in his early days) so like it or not those decisions last week could have made a big difference in the mackems fortunes

[DB10GOONER]

Am shocked to be honest - he took over a stagnent club, was allowed to bring in a load of players and was then sacked before the players had a chance to settle If I was one of those new players then I would be seriously seriously pissed off especially if I was a foreigner - imagine uprooting your family to sunderland (without wishing to be disrespectful to the mackems but it is hardly prime location) only to then have the uncertainty of your future when a new manager joins.Have to say that sunderland, much like villa last season, are getting what they deserve - you cannot constantly sell your best players and then expect to progress

Yeah... but I think the £10K or £20K a week (or whatever a "foreigner" at Sunderland would be on) would probably get you through it...

[Bradywasking]

Am shocked to be honest - he took over a stagnent club, was allowed to bring in a load of players and was then sacked before the players had a chance to settle If I was one of those new players then I would be seriously seriously pissed off especially if I was a foreigner - imagine uprooting your family to sunderland (without wishing to be disrespectful to the mackems but it is hardly prime location) only to then have the uncertainty of your future when a new manager joins.
Have to say that sunderland, much like villa last season, are getting what they deserve - you cannot constantly sell your best players and then expect to progress

unless you are chasing the Virtual Trophy....Di Matteo for Sunderland as apparently Sunderland may not be able to afford to pay off all the Italian backroom staff and Di Matteo would fit in to the set up.

[augie]

Am shocked to be honest - he took over a stagnent club, was allowed to bring in a load of players and was then sacked before the players had a chance to settle If I was one of those new players then I would be seriously seriously pissed off especially if I was a foreigner - imagine uprooting your family to sunderland (without wishing to be disrespectful to the mackems but it is hardly prime location) only to then have the uncertainty of your future when a new manager joins.Have to say that sunderland, much like villa last season, are getting what they deserve - you cannot constantly sell your best players and then expect to progress

Yeah... but I think the £10K or £20K a week (or whatever a "foreigner" at Sunderland would be on) would probably get you through it...

Cynical there my man Top quality players or players on the slide might adopt that attitude but any player with any ambitions to play for a bigger club than the mackems will not be happy to be sidelined even on 20k per week. How does a new player settle into a club when he is on the periphery of things in the club ? Players need to be playing to help them feel positive at a new club and help them interacting with existing players which of course helps them settle

[DB10GOONER]

Am shocked to be honest - he took over a stagnent club, was allowed to bring in a load of players and was then sacked before the players had a chance to settle If I was one of those new players then I would be seriously seriously pissed off especially if I was a foreigner - imagine uprooting your family to sunderland (without wishing to be disrespectful to the mackems but it is hardly prime location) only to then have the uncertainty of your future when a new manager joins.Have to say that sunderland, much like villa last season, are getting what they deserve - you cannot constantly sell your best players and then expect to progress

Yeah... but I think the £10K or £20K a week (or whatever a "foreigner" at Sunderland would be on) would probably get you through it...

Cynical there my man Top quality players or players on the slide might adopt that attitude but any player with any ambitions to play for a bigger club than the mackems will not be happy to be sidelined even on 20k per week. How does a new player settle into a club when he is on the periphery of things in the club ? Players need to be playing to help them feel positive at a new club and help them interacting with existing players which of course helps them settle

I am a cynical old bastard. Especially on Mondays!

But I do agree with your points. It must be a kick in the guts to put your faith in a manager and a club and then a couple weeks later the club sack the manager.

[1989]

The timing of the sacking I find very interesting. Sunderland's board knew that the Manchester derby will take all the limelight so they can announce it now and not get much of a backlash for it, as not many would give a fuck.

[Herd]

I was surprised at the club whose fanbase has been largely working class Old Style labour types ,ever allowed this sieg heiling pseudo facist piece of shit to take up the reigns in the first place .

[goonertux]

The only thing I agreed with him on was how he described a lot of the players head's being full of shit! Yes he was a nutter with a questionable political interest, but as a player he was one of those who was always last off the training pitch, gave everything on the pitch and probably looks at today's young players for what they are.......overpaid, preening, prima donnas. Look out Sunderland.....here comes PULIS!!

[safcftm]

Well, safe to say I’m gutted. Just sick of football nowadays to be honest. Short appointed Di Canio, he knew what he was like and apparently seemed happy to have someone who wouldn’t take any shit off a bunch of underperforming players. Short changed the whole set-up, moving to a Director of Football model where Di Canio identifies the kind of player he wants and the Director of Football goes and finds one. And now after 12 league games, 5 games into this season, the bloke’s been sacked because the players have “stood up” to him. What a fucking joke. Not one of those players have earned the right to have any say in who manages us, hell a lot of them are that shit they’ve now seen off their 3rd manager. When will the owner realise the problem might not be the manager? Apparently pisshead, constantly injured Cattermole was one of two who initially stood up to him, mint, the fucker was wanted by Nottingham Forest last week, he’s fucking shite. The other was John O’Shea, obviously annoyed that his easy money retirement home wasn’t as cushy as he’d wanted, he’s fucking shit anarl.

The players don’t like someone, out he goes. Let’s just ask the players who they want in charge then. No doubt they’ll want some wanker like Di Matteo who can be their mate and let them do as they please. Di Canio wasn’t without fault, he was making mistakes, but 5 fucking league games? I’ve had enough with modern football, prima donna players even at a club like ours where, to a man, they’re shit. An owner who has overseen the systematic selling of any good players (without any sort of a fight). A “CEO” who is so out of her depth it’s frightening. And a manager who has been made the fall guy. We were shit last season – our best player (Mignolet) is sold and not replaced, our next best player (Rose) goes back to Spurs and isn’t replaced, Sessegnon is sold and we get Ki and Borini. Di Canio asks for an English central midfielder that can pick a pass, Huddleston is deemed too expensive and gets away, he ends up being given Cabral who is shit and has already been stuck in the reserves. Guardiola would struggle to do anything with our fucking mob, a bunch of wankers, wasters and a squad full of freebies, fillers and general shite.

Well, the players have got what they want, now we can choose from one of several shite, boring managers. We’ll go down anyway, because we’re shite, and to be absolutely honest I’m very much struggling to give a fuck anymore, football is fucked. Finally we had someone who worked hard, who appreciated how lucky he was to be in his position and who wanted to give us a team to be proud of and the overpaid wankers we couldn’t shift have stabbed him in the back. Fucking stupid sport anyway. Yay, lets get Di Matteo, Poyet, McClaren or fucking Tony Pulis, fuck off, hope they get 5 games anarl and if its Pulis then Ellis Short can stick me season ticket up his Texan hoop