The New Manager Rumour Samdy's Moobs are feeling tender Thread

[Simon Pieman]

Di Canio would turn our club into a media circus

[mrverve]

Former Southend Manager Steve Tilson has also put his name forward for the job so i'm led to believe.  Did alright at Southend until the club went tits up and they had to sell all their best players.

It's well documented that Di Canio is a great admirer of Mussolini but political views aside i would still take a gamble on him. Yes he's a bit of a lose cannon but no more than McMuck was as swindon manager.

Di Canio has also done some credible things in football too like the game where he was through on goal and would of quite easily scored but he saw the keeper down and rather the score he kicked it out so the keeper could be treated.  He got a lot of admiration for that as not many other players would have done what he did in that situation

If we're thinking of going for Tilson then why don't we just go the whole hogg and just re-appoint  'Marvellous Maurice Malpas'. He'll come in and soon get 'the monkeys off our backs' for sure.

[bassett boy]

Well last season was a circus

[Sippo]

If, and it's a big if, he was appointed it would certainly put 'bums on seats'...

[tans]

Di canio is quality, id like to see him push refs over again

[spacey]

I wonder if he would take steps to change the genetic composition of our youth team

[herthab]

I wonder if he would take steps to change the genetic composition of our youth team

Worth a try.

[Frigby Daser]

Derek McInnes, the St Johnstone manager, has said that he's spoken to Brentford. I wonder if his hat is in the ring.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Sport/Football/article/13761/st-johnstone-chief-says-derek-mcinnes-can-do-better-than-brentford.html

I'd be surprised if he dropped to L2 mind you, if he's seen as an up and coming manager.

As for Di Canio, it could be the best appointment the club ever makes. It might also be the worst. The fact he was a hot-headed player doesn't necessarily mean he'd be the same as a manager. It's interesting how opinions change as well. Poeple seem keen for a young, untested manager, supposedly in light of the success of the likes of Poyet, Howe and Karl Robinson. When we appointed Wilson, the criteria was a safe pair of hands.

[pauld]

That's rubbish Paul. Although Facism and Nazism shared some political and ideological viewpoints saying they're the same is like saying the Labour Party and The Socialist Workers Party are the same.

Is it fuck. It's more like the difference between the Socialist Workers' Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party or one of the other 80s Trot groupuscules. Like I say, there hasn't been a fascist regime that hasn't also been explicitly racist.

I can't believe some people are so keen to get Di Canio they're somehow trying to rehabilitate Mussolini as a "nicer Nazi"

[BANGKOK RED]

Or the Judean people's front?

[pauld]

Or the Judean people's front?

Splitters!

[Riddick]

whoever it is that works at this bookmaker they clearly are having bets with a mate that they can get whatever ridiculous name into the paper! Di Canio! no thanks

[pauld]

whoever it is that works at this bookmaker they clearly are having bets with a mate that they can get whatever ridiculous name into the paper! Di Canio! no thanks

I seem to remember last time round there was some speculation Victor Chandler were creating books on unlikely candidates largely to generate publicity for themselves. If that is the case, it's working. Wonder what it would cost them to buy that kind of ad space?

[herthab]

Is it fuck. It's more like the difference between the Socialist Workers' Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party or one of the other 80s Trot groupuscules. Like I say, there hasn't been a fascist regime that hasn't also been explicitly racist.

I can't believe some people are so keen to get Di Canio they're somehow trying to rehabilitate Mussolini as a "nicer Nazi"

Before I bow out of this political ideology debate, I'd just like to make a couple of points:

1. I am not a Mussolini lover, nor a nazi, but neither was Benny. He was a facist and whether people accept it or not, there is a big difference.

2. Di Canio will never be manager at Swindon, even if he was a card carrying member of The Monster Raving Looney Party, he wouldn't be that daft.

2.

[pauld]

As I said earlier, Nazism was just the Germanised version of fascism. There's no difference. If you're trying to claim "Benny" was "just" a fascist and not anti-semitic, that's been proven wrong years ago. He was virulently anti-Semitic.

But the discussion is about whether Di Canio is a fascist and/or racist and whether that should count against him in consideration for the Swindon manager's job. He's admitted being a fascist but denied being a racist. But the "Ultras" he saluted with that fascist salute are openly hardcore racists he's apparently happy to associate himself with, as was the Mussolini regime he's happy to memorialise.

And even if one is naive enough to fall for the "fascist not racist" line, whether we like it or not appointing someone who thinks it's OK to make fascist salutes to a racist mob as our manager will also make a statement about Swindon Town as a football club. I'd rather when people think of Swindon they think of this:

[url width=595 height=335]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/rogers595.jpg[/url]

not this:
[url width=450 height=313]http://cms.442.haymarketnetwork.com/contentimages/blog/SerieAaaaargh/Di-Canio.jpg[/url]

(And for the record, I also don't think Di Canio will actually be anywhere near the job)