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So we're going to tribunal on Friday.

Apparently over unpaid wages! Surely he can't be claiming his wage after he quit? That would be ridiculous!

Does anybody on the TEF actually know about this kind of stuff?

Anyone know what sort of financial liability we could be looking at here?

Whatever it comes to, when weighted against the damage it could do to his reputation with future employers I can't see him gaining out of this long term.

If he is suing for willful dismissal/breach of contract could that be considered equivalent of suing for unpaid wages?

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How to foul up a fucking good legacy. Pollute your name on an unwinnable horse of a court case Paolo. Picking up the pieces of your mindless extravagance and now this! Dancing in the Moonlight indeed, you fucking idiot. YOU engineered the departure. Didn't he splurge 18 million on a new signing last week? Name is muck here now.

Fuck him.

If PDC wins I bet he'll donate the winnings to charity.

Doubt it'll be a Swindon one though, probably one in the North East !

It'll be the Durham Miners mate, the cynical fucker. To think I had outpourings of grief about this TWAT

Yay, dossy's ranting!

Get down to Bristol with some eggs on Friday Dosser

Is it unwinnable though? We don't know exactly what he is suing for.

Regardless, he's still a twat.

Do we KNOW that it is Him?

How absolutely pathetic.  Move on Paolo, we all have.

Is this the court case Power to the people was referring to in another thread?

I am really angry about him. I need to go to bed because i'm seething. Even when he left he was an idol to me and now this pathetic malarkey. He will not be welcome around here any more. We're up pittance creek with a begging bowl and this tosser is swiping our legs from underneath us. Jeez, thank God I never went through with the PDC  tattoo and my shrine.

Yes

Maybe Jed will regret not having Sam in Portugal. Now he can pop on the train to Temple Meads, sit at the back of the tribunal room, have access to all of the papers and right a story free of pre season player cliches.

Would be nice to get Sunderland in the cup methinks.

What goes around comes around and if he is attempting to sue the club without a care for anything connected to Swindon Town and i doubt its for the money he really is a sad man. I enjoyed his time with us but now sort of hoping his managerial career fails.

I'm sort of hoping his aorta fails. 

What a cunt, he's moved on to bigger and better things so why fucking bother?  I bet Paul Bodin would like the opportunity to give a statement to the tribunal.

It's been said before but he wasn't out of work for long so there surely couldn't be much of a loss of earnings claim, and I'm not sure if you can claim for general damages in wrongful dismissal unless you have suffered psychological injury?

Edit: looked it up and seems you can claim general damages for damage to reputation - could be relevant?

Or that French striker he signed and then abused?

is there anyone left who doesnt think the bloke is an absolute cunt?

Could we get the forum to automatically replace any variation of his name with Cunt?

Can we lay off the gendered insults please? Aren't we better than this?

Could cunt not be automatically be replaced by Di Canio? Would be better

Definition of irony.

Surely there's a case for us, if he wins or his argument has any weight at all, to turn to Sunderland and demand compensation?

I hope he does. Might make interesting reading.

It's sad that despite being aware of the situation STFC finds itself in, PDC decides to put the boot in even further despite landing a lucrative role at Sunderland. Of course, he may have a perfectly sound legal case but after preaching loyalty for so long that he wouldn't just let the matter rest peacefully and move on.

Swindon Town damaged his reputation so much he was able to get a job at a club in the premiership,  two devisions above us.

Have you still not noticed yet that nobody is interested in arguing with you about PDC?

You became boring a long, long time ago mate. Let it go.... and back on topic, nobody wants to hear it.

He can, but I'm not sure that's how he'd form a claim in this instance. If it is for unpaid wages, I suspect (wild speculation) that the new lot didn't pay him for the time that he was still manager post takeover. Don't be surprised to see this settle today or tomorrow. It's often the way.

Disappointed.....he doesn't need the money so why do it?

Like a teenager throwing a hissy fit when they realise that they can't get everything their own way.

Somebody should go to Bristol and throw eggs at him

Yes, me.

Eggs is not sufficient. We need a pigs head.

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Now that would indeed be apt.

Paolo is being an utter cock as normal.

I guess i'm finally going to have to change my Avatar..  :(

A good lawyer could argue that his reputation has only been advanced by his time at Swindon - he came in with a reputation for being erratic, he behaved erratically and he was indulged by his employer, and the terms under which he left were no more or less predictable than anything else he did there.

He couldn't get a Prem job without the STFC experience (that's what Sullivan at West Ham told him), so he's more marketable than he was.

So relatively easy to defend. How do you know what the breaking point is of a man who looks like he could break at any moment. Also, he got a better paid job immediately, so no harm has been done to him.

Interesting, for someone who claims to be all about 'the fans', taking a club to a tribunal is in the end taking money of those fans he claimed to love so much, especially as it's a new board. So, thanks for that Paolo. Narcissistic egomaniac to the last.

Isnt he in abroad asia? preparing to play a game today?

Somebody should go to Asia to throw eggs at him then.

Oh!

Me...let's hear what the case is about firstly, then make a judgement.

Lots of conclusions being jumped to in this thread, I do hope the Advertiser will be reporting on these proceedings.

Me to,as others say lets read all the facts...may give us an insight into how the new board went about things....for good or bad.
I to hope the Adver are on top of this one,it will be interesting reading.

What, you mean wait for the facts before deciding somebody is guilty? ;)

If he's suing the club then he can fuck off regardless of the facts. He was obviously made promises that we were never going to be able to keep in the long term. Surely he can see that and should keep his toys in his pram.

You need to get things into perspective Flasheart.

He is going to court for breach of contract not murder....remember its the club who will be found guilty not Paolo.

For me personally it will be interesting to hear the facts on the current boards takeover...may open a few eyes up.
Not talking to the manager and informing your star player is being sold behind the managers back will not go down well in court.

My view is if you havn't got the proper funds to invest in a club and do things by the book...ie work with the current manager then dont take over the club!

Also nots let forget a fair few people who worked at the County Ground for years before being told they were surplus to requirement will be keeping a close eye on this i should imagine.....if the board were wrong(in the eyes of the law) with regard PDC who is to say more people maybe feel they were wronged.

And before anyone suggests i am board bashing(yawn) i am not......i am just looking at what is a real possibility.

No one is guilty in this case....the board or Paolo.....to both parties its just business.

I was making a point Lee. You missed it.

One thing that I'm confident of is that our board are pretty savvy when it comes to 'points of law'. I'm looking forward to this all being put to rest.

Maybe this 'last minute' Portugal trip was designed to keep the players away from nastiness that is likely to ensue over PDC, Rooney and maybe the departures of some of those left behind?

The Portugal trip was being planned over 6 weeks ago.

A good shout.

  I think that has been the name of the game since Black walked out and Jedco took over!!

So was the PDC case, the Rooney situation and the removal of high earners.

May be coincidence, but it may have been planned to coincide (Or it may not).

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Fair enough,i respect your views....many see it as you do,i have a different slant on it.

Its been done to death so let us agree to leave it till the juicy facts are known and published hopefully by the local rag...if they are allowed that is ;)

People on a forum designed for discussion and debate posting speculative comments?

I'll shut the forum down immediately!

Press the Button SY!

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This forum seems to be down almost as often as its up anyway!

I put it into hibernation whenever it looks as if a discussion is becoming too speculative :)

I know he got us promoted and would probably have got us promoted twice had Black stayed etc and he did a great job with a good backing etc but the man is a total teapot.

You have to see it from the loon's perspective.

He signs a contract based upon having resources, which we now know were a tad unrealistic.  Black has enough and whips the rug from under his feet by selling Richie and in the loon’s view he completely derails what was going to be a successful season.  Ok, that was an overreaction on his part but we all know how he operates.

Personally picking the bones out of it all I think it will get thrown out.  The claim relates to a previous owner and previous boards actions and with all the will in the world I cant see their ever being a contract with cast iron assurances over player sales.  As much as Wray may have pandered to Di Canio no lawyer worth their salt would have let that sort of agreement get passed them.

The interesting point for me is post-Richie, Di Canio claims he waited for a call from the new board that (allegedly) never materialised.  Interesting to see if any of the claim relates to this period as its always been a little hazy with conflicting stores from all parties.

BBC Wilts:

Swindon Town have reached an out of court agreement with former manager Paolo Di Canio ahead of Friday's employment tribunal

Is this another scoop they got ahead of Sam?

Thank fuck for that.

Onwards and forwards we march!

Doesn't that tell us PDC had a decent case, and the board of today didn't want it all coming out in the wash ?

Or am I reading too much into this ?

Cue another moreshead moan (tm)

Maybe one evening Sam had a shandy or two to many and tried it on with Jed's missus?

Who gives a fuck now.

He's yesterday's man and we appear to have more pressing matters ahead of us

I reckon they both had a decent case,lets be happy its now sorted.

It was a messy scenario so lets be happy that both parties have done the decent thing....if the reports are in fact true.

Agreed.

Gold statue to be erected outside the Town End then

You know that this is bound to happen now don't you ?

In a small way it's a shame as it would have been really interesting to hear the evidence. In a much larger way it is jolly good that both parties have done the decent thing.

Is anyone going to downgrade his 'absolute cunt' status now?

Silence bought then. At least that will keep up the speculation,insults,intheknow, fed up rant stuff on here.

We don't have the money to fund yet another court case. Obviously.

if the club won wouldn't it cost nothing?
An out of court settlement won't

Although I wouldn’t put it past Jed to turn up in court on his own without wearing a tie, dribbling Guinness and only corresponding with the anyone in the Courtroom by the medium of Twitter, usually it costs a fair amount of money to defend a legal case. Even if you win and get recompense, you do incur costs as you go along.

The judges asks him to confirm his name and he just replies with .......

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Pitchforks can be put away for now then...(for at least a fortnight)

In a previous job, I used to manage the defence of cases taken to the Employment Tribunal by current and former employees of a major national employer.  As much as it goes against the grain, there were cases when it made sound economical sense to settle a claim instead of incurring significant legal expenses in defending it all the way down the line. Not to mention the question of the risk of damage to the employer's reputation that can sometimes result from press coverage of a hearing.  There could be along list of factors which led to the decision to settle this case.

sunderland may have had a word in his ear too after all the fuss when he was appointed, probably just want to be able to get on with things.

I have seen the same Sir Piss.   Companies particularly those with a public profile are more willing to settle to avoid dirty laundry being aired in public.  

Even when there's a strong case for the defence there may be information that is corroborated that is commercially sensitive or just plain embarrassing to the company if it makes the public domain.  Hence, very weak claims can often end up with a decent payout.

I think old Sugar Tits and that blond piece that won the Apprentice a couple of years ago is a good example of an employer making a stand but these are few and far between.

Weird one, cant imagine Di Canio had much of a case unless he really did have a contract which sated he was entitled to X amount of pocket money per year and key players could not be sold in which case the person responsible needs to shot.  I do wonder if Black had anything to do with paying him off and rather than  Jed wanting his linen aired it was more the previous owner that wanted none of it?


 

So this will be hushed up then and fans not told what the settlement is or why they settled.

A little disappointing I think.

Will the orange hats be made of tinfoil this time round?

Unlikely...generally avaiable metallic foil has been made of aluminium rather than tin for about 100 years.

Then we're all truly fucked.

Not necessarily...I came to terms with it many moons ago....if TIN can...you can

Not as though some people on here need an excuse.???