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Di Canio

stonemuse
stonemuse Posts: 33,995
edited February 2008 in Other Football and Sports
Management ambition but not with us

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  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Bastard...never did like him ;-)
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    No mention of young Kevin Lisbie - according to Di Canio, the most talented player at Charlton .........
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,840
    Why on earth would he want to come to us?

    1/ We're not in the Prem
    2/ We've got a manger
    3/ Why would he have any "loyalty" to us - more than, say, Sheff Wed?

    Having said all that, how funny would he press conferences be?!
  • CostaFortune
    CostaFortune Posts: 402
    Interesting feature on Sky Sports now:
    https://www.skysports.com/football/story-telling/11095/11970085/angels-demons-with-di-canio-why-i-rejected-fergie

  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    edited April 2020
    That is an interesting article. However, for anyone looking specifically to read his musings and refections on his time at Charlton, I have helpfully copy and pasted that section here in its entirety:

    "Di Canio would play another season of Premier League football, with Charlton, but when the chance to return to his boyhood club Lazio arrived in 2004, he felt it was the natural end." 

    Also, scrolling through the pictures, the state of that pizza that Sheffield Wednesday gave him and Carbone to pose with when they announced their signings! Clearly a bottom of the range supermarket pizza, but I don't think they've even cooked it! It looks like a frozen pizza that's been defrosted and then served raw! Northerners! No class.


  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,031
    Disappointed with that. They discussed Manchester United more than us 

    Apparently it was either us or Derby after West Ham turned down his offer to stay for a massive reduction in wages. 

    This is different to the story that Curbs tells in his autobiography. There he describes how Paolo was impressed by the passion of the Back to the Valley video, so much so that he asked to keep the tape. 
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    That quote about coming to charlton for the ‘passion’ was repeated so often. Mainly by me, @Curb_It and other members of the Saturday morning vodka club with terrible Italian accents. 
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    One of my favourite players of all time. Just oozed class. Didn't score many goals but his skill, assists and passion were great to watch. 

    IF he had stayed for that second season, i wonder what would have happened.  
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Loved him at  Charlton
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    I may have remembered this wrongly, but wasn't the only goal he technically scored in open play for us was when he followed up from his spilled penalty at Man City?
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  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,484
    hawksmoor said:
    I may have remembered this wrongly, but wasn't the only goal he technically scored in open play for us was when he followed up from his spilled penalty at Man City?
    League goal yes, he scored a header against Luton in the cup. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,692
    that game against Portsmouth at fratton park is up there with the best turnaround created from one individual player to the game for us that i have ever seen. 
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    that game against Portsmouth at fratton park is up there with the best turnaround created from one individual player to the game for us that i have ever seen. 
    Was at that one. Great atmosphere. 
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    Second only to muzzy Izzet for assists that season

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