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Di Canio political beliefs a cause for concern?
           

  The week-long process of interviewing potential candidates for the vacant manager’s position at Swindon Town is over, and within days fans will finally learn who is tasked with the job of leading
  the Robins to promotion from League Two.

           

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Oh Adver, you shameless shit stirrers.

Quite

Think this rule PDC out. Especially as a sponsor has said they'd pull out if he was in charge.

 It must be so easy being an Adver journo, read what we're debating on here, and about 48 hours later, write an article, and wait for the mongs to respond.

Nice of you to mention that the majority couldn't give a flying fuck, eh adver!

"...one Fan (who no longer lives in Swindon or attends matches) wrote to us at Adver Towers proclaiming he would not set foot in Swindon again if Di Canio was appointed."

One of the best lines EVER in the Adver!

He has political beliefs? Suprised someone hasn't mentioned that on here already.

the adver should pay this forum for all their rumours and stories.
we get in there first though!

alas, the Adver will still break the big stories before we can ever be certain...

Take it you're being sarcastic but they did.

A sponsor that sponsors a reserve team player. Big loss.
 Samsung said its up to Swindon who they see fit to manage the team, not them or other sponsorers.

I've been following the town for over 30 years and WONT renew my season ticket if Di Canio becomes manager (no matter HOW good he is). There is no room for facism or a man who admires Mussolini at my club!

Millions of people died as a result of the rise of facism. This is far too big an issue for some fans to "not give a flying f*ck" about.

I want him. We need the excitement.

Take the risk, put us back on the football map!

To be fair, that was ages ago, and they've not really done much genocide recently.....

:fishing:

Spot on.

I can understand why people wouldnt want to come. But I also think we should allow people to have their own opinions outside of the workplace.

Has Di Canio ever had problems with black players in England? Would it affect his ability to do the job? I dont think it would.

He does come from a country where extreme politics is much more common, left and right.

If anything Id worry more about the affect on the behaviour of our own fans, whose treatment of a few black players was not great this season.

I want him.

But the hammers have just sacked old avram, think that will put a spanner in the works

If his political beliefs had any bearing on the job (e.g. having a problem with Blacks) then he should not be chosen. Personally, I'm not convinced they would.

I think the risk we would be a stepping stone is far greater. But that's true of almost anyone we employ.

That'd carry more weight if he'd kept them outside the workplace

I couldn't give a shit about his political views as long as they do not interfere with his ability to manage the team then what does it matter.

Those that are against his beliefs or alleged beliefs I sure would return if we was riding high at the top of the table - time will tell

Can't see West Ham taking the risk on him yet.

Absolutely. Giving roman salutes ON THE PITCH is pretty much carrying your beliefs into the workplace! The man is a facist and I would NEVER pass through the turnstiles of a Town game as long as he was manager if he were to be appointed.

These are not alledged beliefs. He is a self-professed facist and totally unapologetic about it.
If Di Canio is ok for you, then who else would you accept if they were good at the game? Peter Sutcliffe? Fred West? Pol Pot? Bin Laden? Robert Mugabe? Gary Glitter? A bit of a silly list I know, but there are times when you have to accept that some things are bigger than football.

Ok, would you have hoddle back, due to his beliefs about disabled people?

If he came here and the media focus was on the football and he didn't publicly make reference to any political beliefs then I honestly wouldn't be bothered.

I can see why some people would be bothered though which is fair enough.

A silly list indeed.Some would also say fucking pointless

Nah, Peter Sutcliffe will be going for the Hammers job

All those have done something tangibly wrong, therefore that list is ridiculous.

And so has Di Canio
http://cms.442.haymarketnetwork.com/contentimages/blog/SerieAaaaargh/Di-Canio.jpg
http://bestfootballers.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dicanio1.jpg
He proudly claims to be a facist (although he somehow manages to separate facism and racism!) and is lauded by organisations such as Stormfront (a white supremacist organisation). Is that wrong enough for you?

If you equate making a salute with murdering your daughter, fucking kids, terrorism, doing a rape/murder on hookers, then i think you need to have a look at what you stand for.

In your opinion not by the letter of english law if you want to be pedantic

I concur fella

It's not the salute.... it's what the salute means! And yes I DO equate that salute with mass murder, rape, terrorism and genocide.

I think you'll find that anti-semitism and genocide ARE in fact illegal.

Oh right and your link alludes to Di Canio doing that does it. Who did he kill.

This argument is actually really fucking boring now

There is no way you can separate the facist salute from what facists did and what facism means. It's plain and simple. Di Canio is a facist. Facism is wrong. I can not support a facist. If the argument is fucking boring there is nobody forcing you to continue to take part in it.

Yeah.

But political beliefs are not, are they?. This topic has already been done a death anyway, did you choose to just ignore all of that?

Dorset, I'm on your side in this in terms of being resolutely opposed to Di Canio being allowed to besmirch the club and for the same reasons. But please, this really has been done to death (not least by me, Bangkok Red, Lumps, mrverve et al). Can we not let it lie till Wednesday (or whenever we know who the new manager is) at least?

Fully support your right to have your say on the issue, but have a look back through the various threads on this and I think most of it has already been covered. Three or four times.

Oh, and for Christ's sake, at least spell fascist correctly. There's an "s" in it :)

they are if they lead you to contravene the law. Im pretty sure that "the final solution" (one of the corner stones of faScism ;)) could be considered illegal.

That's not a capital 'S' by the way.

Tasteless, but inspired.

Paul, I know this has been discussed in other threads but I am just gobsmacked that we can actually have apologists for a NAZI on our forums.
Personally I think there is little, if any chance of him becoming our next manager but sometimes things need to be said.... and said..... and said.
If I were to deliver the same salute as Di Canio in my profession I would be sacked immediately (and rightly so).

I hang my head in shame at the fact that I smirked at that one too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk

Thanks, nev. I may have that put on my gravestone

I wanted Burley as manager but after this, I am all in favour of Di Canio getting the job.

 :zzz:

You'd be half-right.

Surely, that'd be 'tasteless, but interred' ?