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BBC Johnson free to play for Sunderland

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rocky said:
Not imo. The reaction to his appointment was pathetic. I was embarrassed the way some of our fans went on tbh.
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Suppose we have different views on what's important in life. Fair enough!
 

rocky said:
Not imo. The reaction to his appointment was pathetic. I was embarrassed the way some of our fans went on tbh.
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More embarrassed by the fans reaction than by hiring someone who once did this?

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And he also has fascist tattoos. Associating with him was a controversial move, why shouldn't people be entitled to react strongly to these kinds of things when they matter a great deal?
 
Billy Batts said:
Bollocks. Milliband was looking for a way out to piss off to America to save face. The Di Canio thing was the perfect opportunity.
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that was the "forced" bit, i was being sarcastic of his actions but for maggie to have the face to do an interview saying he wasnt a fascist and had no links to fascism was ridiculous.
 
Rizla said:
Very poor decision by the club, morally questionable, but I suspect they have done it out of financial desperation at the thought of relegation. But he won't be right to play, his presence will be a distraction and uncomfortable for the rest of the team, and the shit we get from the terraces is hardly going to aid our plight.

The club is run by a bunch of incompetent idiots who couldn't run a market stall, let alone a football club.
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FFS.... he has not been found guilty of anything and until (or should I say if) he does he should be allowed to continue in his profession. Would your workplace send you on gardening leave if you charged with anything by the police! :rolleyes: This site boils my piss sometimes...!
 
JimmyQuinn said:
Suppose we have different views on what's important in life. Fair enough!
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I suppose we do, us appointing Di Canio wasn't that important in my life.

PeruzziWatch said:
More embarrassed by the fans reaction than by hiring someone who once did this?

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And he also has fascist tattoos. Associating with him was a controversial move, why shouldn't people be entitled to react strongly to these kinds of things when they matter a great deal?
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They don;t though. The people outraged weren't outraged when this fascist was employed elsewhere. It was all very two faced.

Fuck me I'm sticking up for Di Canio :lol:
 
rocky said:
I suppose we do, us appointing Di Canio wasn't that important in my life.


They don;t though. The people outraged weren't outraged when this fascist was employed elsewhere. It was all very two faced.

Fuck me I'm sticking up for Di Canio :lol:
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Maybe read up on a bit of history. It might help you to see why it's not such a great idea to associate with someone doing that salute.
 
rocky said:
Please don't try and be condescending, you're not bright enough to pull it off.
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So you're allowed to be condescending towards the people who had an issue with Di Canio and say they only had a problem with him because he was the manager here? I, like many others, knew about this stuff long before he arrived here, it's all out there. And it was rightly treated as a controversial move.
 
PeruzziWatch said:
So you're allowed to be condescending towards the people who had an issue with Di Canio and say they only had a problem with him because he was the manager here? I, like many others, knew about this stuff long before he arrived here, it's all out there. And it was rightly treated as a controversial move.
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I wasn't offering advice about understanding things sunshine. You were.

Please don't try and be clever. Its not for you.
 
rocky said:
I wasn't offering advice about understanding things sunshine. You were.

Please don't try and be clever. Its not for you.
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I might have been deliberately condescending, but it was a reaction to you calling people who questioned the appointment 'pathetic'. Which is also condescending. There's a good reason why a lot clubs wouldn't touch him with a barge pole.
 
the streaker said:
It didn't............he was leaving anyway for his well paid American charity gig............the odious twat just tried to twist the situation to justify his leaving............
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Indeed.

On a positive note, it was pleasing that Mr Miliband rediscovered his testicles and his principles, both of which went missing when Blair invaded Iraq.
 
PeruzziWatch said:
So you're allowed to be condescending towards the people who had an issue with Di Canio and say they only had a problem with him because he was the manager here? I, like many others, knew about this stuff long before he arrived here, it's all out there. And it was rightly treated as a controversial move.
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The press only brought it up after he joined us. It was known beforehand, and got the odd comment, no more. The next minute it was massive news recycled from years back. Everyone is allowed an opinion on it, but the minute the press did that, my reaction was "Fuck you lot!" Even more so when the Sun started the SunDERland bollocks
 
rocky said:
It never stopped us or Swindon appointing him. In fact his political leanings weren't a problem when Swindon appointed him.
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There is nothing to actually stop anyone hiring him, it's just the association with him would naturally be seen as unwise and ultimately be more trouble than it's worth. We only hired him because we were in a desperate situation. Decisions made by lower league clubs tend to be less scrutinised too. Political views shouldn't be a factor when hiring a manager, but when they're as extreme as fascism then it's obviously natural that the club will be criticised for hiring someone with such questionable beliefs. It's not every day you see a manager doing nazi salutes, why did we have to hire a guy who thinks that's a good idea?
 
PeruzziWatch said:
There is nothing to actually stop anyone hiring him, it's just the association with him would naturally be seen as unwise and ultimately be more trouble than it's worth.
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It wasn't an issue at Swindon. It still isn't an issue at West Ham, where Di Canio is still revered.

It only became trouble when a superannuated Labour politician and a local trade union placeman decided to cause mischief.
 
Its at times like this when we receive confirmation that some posters on here just post more during difficult times for the club.Almost as if they have agendas and or only like to be negative
 
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