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Just for people fans of other teams and visitors from other forums, here is a totally genuine question

Just what is you problem with PDC?

I am honestly interested.  I go to our matches and see a manager who is always on his feet issuing instructions to his players, waving his arms about and making changes to the team.  I may be naive, but isn't that his job?

Id love someone to come on here explain why they have a problem with PDC's actions on the side of the pitch.  Fair enough the celebration at Northampton was a bit much (but fucking excellent all the same) but I really cannot understand the problems people seem to have with his actions.

If he was at one of the other decent league 2 teams we'd all be calling him an arse and get pissed off.

Di Canio is brilliant for us and infuriating for the opposition. Which is all the more satisfying.

This.

Exactly, pretty simple really. Any set of fans would hate the opposition manager to act like it but love it when it's your own.

Was/is the same with the Portuguese nut job when he was at Chelsea,his antics riled many but not Chelsea fans of course.

TBH, I don't see it that way.  If he was another team's manager, I would still like him, as I do for the likes of Ian Holloway.  If the bloke is entertaining then I like him.  Simple as that.

Therefore, the only thing I can think why they don't like PDC is jealousy.

Yeah exactly, I was always a fan of Mourinho and it should be a laugh if he comes back again in the summer.

Mourinho wasn't in our division, bad example.

Martin Allen is a good example.

Sorry about that ;D

Unfortunately PDC did come with some baggage from his premier league days and his own history (does Paul D. still come to footy?), but I think his animated expressions on the touch line are what rile the fans and I think it can be summed up in one word - SUCCESS!!
Let's face it we did give Fatty Evans the bird, in fact I am sure we got to him and his team.  Made me laugh yesterday their manager was stood up on the touch line the whole time, yet the dumb fucks from 'Nam were telling PDC to sit down - and I loved his reaction to them at the end of the game, almost a "stick that up your arse and smoke it" reaction!

It reminds me perfectly of Mourinho. As entertaining if not more, just the rest of the plastic prem fans aren't in on it which makes it better.

Fat boy is a good example, I imagine their fans love him.

I've found alot of the negativity towards him has come from fans in the same league as us. So thats one thing - jealousy and bitterness usually after we have beat them!! But I still don't see why thats an excuse.  A few local southampton fans & city fans round here say he is hilarious and like watching him on the box! The fact of the matter is, he is the perfect manager. He shouts screams and gets stuck in and thats what u want to see! And so far its proving very effective :)

Its the comments that his actions are a 'disgrace to football'.  Um, he's doing his job.  One thing Ive noticed is that he doesn't, or rarely, screams and shouts at the ref.  Its all at his players.  Where's the disgrace?

Same as that.  I don't support Chelses, but Mourinho was great for the game  (although he started moaning about everything just before he left).

I loved it yesterday when there was a break in play - I forget who was down injured but all the players went over to Paolo and he just exploded! So much so that he walked back to the dug out punched it (which could he heard from the back of the DRS) and continued to chew the ear off of about 5 different people.

In fairness, when reading other teams' forums, quite a lot of opposition fans like him. As has been said, Swindon fans would be exactly the same towards him if he was manager of an opposing team and equally, the fans of any other club would love him if he was their manager.

He's always going to prevoke a response or opinion of some kind from the opposition, unlike [shudder]Paul Hart[/shudder] or Danny Wilson or Maurice Backpass.

Easily explained:

He's successful

He's highly visible

He says things other managers would keep to themselves

Biggest problem for Swindon - how do you replace him when the time comes? Bit like Cloughie

No body likes a winner.

He's winning, we're winning - the other teams arent. Jealous.

Alot people dont like Sir Alex, because he's a winner.

i don't like him because he's a cunt

you think he's a cunt because he's a winner.

I dread the day I hear people sing 'no one likes us, we don't care'.

It's horribly ironic. In the bad way.

I don't like Ferguson because he is a hypocritical prick and a whinger.

Fuck all to do whit whether or not he is a winner, I couldn't give a toss about any club in the premiership.

Why stop at the premiership? I couldn't give a toss about any other club, period.

I really don't think we need to ask other clubs' supporters why they dislike PDC so much, it's obvious.

He's loud, in your face, never stops, likes to hog a fair amount of the attention (standing in the centre of the pitch when Oxford beat us at CG), rubs it in when we win, wears his heart on his sleeve. Has a certain arrogance/over confidence and most annoyingly, they've all been waiting to see him fail but...


... he seems to know whats he's doing, whilst the other managers in the division don't, or are doing an ok job as they head towards retirement.

Yarp agreed.

Allen wasn't a good example at Cheltenham.  All of their fans hated him as he tore apart the ethos of the club which Yates has rebuilt.

Also, I find it incredibly hard to believe that even his only fans would love Fat Boy @ Crawley.  Wouldn't happen, but if he ever became manager of STFC I'd quit at least until he was gone.

Di canio is a big name in british football so he immediately gets peoples attention. The fact that he is who he is,we are flying and he is animated means our rival teams will dislike him. If he was doing what he is here at one of our rivals we would be exactly the same as other clubs fans. We have him and they dont so :smugfu: to all of them

Probably find its only the other 2nd division sides fans that dislike Paolo, pretty much every prem supporter I know thinks he is a breath of fresh air not only to our league but English football, Managers like Paolo is what will help to keep English football so appealing.

I wouldnt swap Paolo Di Canio for any other manager in the World right now.

Apart from Paul Hart.

Maybe not, but probably because he IS a cunt

I'd swap him for Messi as player manager and thats about it.

Do they even give odds on him being first goal scorer anymore?

And without doubt one of the best managers ever in the British game...all managers are hypocrites and whingers even the shit ones.

Great managers need not to be loved.

At the end of the day, I think he is just one of those love or hate people. Even as a player, you either loved him or hated him. And he is just the same now. People still either think he is brilliant, or a cunt. Very similar to Mourinho in that respect. some people loved him, some people hated him.

He also gives it back to the opposition fans. As the Crewe fans sang "Paolo, what's the score" he was pointing upwards indicating our lofty league position and slightly bending down indicating their lower position. Luckily, Crewe fans didn't make too much of it but I'm sure other clubs fans would react differently.

I think the commentators said that the Crewe fans were taking it in good spirit.

Di Canio is simply a guy that wants to win and not a fence sitter like 98% of the left of centre wankers in society today.

We have another "man manager" here in New Zealand called Graham Henry...he was the reason why the All Blacks won the RWC.

Di Canio will be the reason Swindon get promoted this year.

I am sure J Wray understands this and hopefully he can keep PDC interested in staying in Swindon as long as he can.

To answer your question.....to hell with any other football clubs and their supporters and what they think...we got Di Canio and long may it continue.   

I was having a smoke outside the royal oak after the game, and chatting to 2 coppers, who thought it was hilarious, both were Crewe fans also.

Not a peep from any opposition fan... as usual we're overestimating our own importance as clearly most others don't give a flying fuck one way or the other :)

Not got a problem with PDC whatsoever, although my opinion may be slightly clouded because of my liking of STFC, that said, he's never done anything wrong when he played against Forest, and I see him as an Italian who manages with passion and wants to be a success - nothing wrong with that is there?

On a side note, good luck in the JPT boys, I've sort of got a conflict with this one as Mark Crossley, on the Chesterfield coaching staff is honorary president of the Yorkshire branch of the Forest Supporters Club which I run, but, COME ON YOU REDS!

THIS!