Latest/Updated on Why ' Paulo Di Canio Sacked '

' Updated Monday 23rd September 2013. '

Sky Sports tonight revealed that Di Canio was sacked after Senior Sunderland players went to the Sunderland Board and complained about Di Canio's Regime. There was a training ground bust up in the afternoon and the players said they had had enough.
Player power helped get rid of him.



First one down already!!

Sunderland today sacked Paulo Di Canio.



Club statement
Published: 22 September, 2013
by Sunderland AFC

" Club parts company with head coach. "

Sunderland AFC confirms that it has parted company with head coach Paolo Di Canio this evening.
Kevin Ball will take charge of the squad ahead of Tuesday night’s Capital One Cup game against Peterborough United and an announcement will be made in due course regarding a permanent successor.
The club would like to place on record its thanks to Paolo and his staff and wishes them well for the future.







' YESTERDAY '

Sunderland fans have had enough of Di Canio.

Has Paulo di Canio taken a page out of Jose Mourinho’s notebook?

The embattled Sunderland boss walked back out onto the pitch for a quick “chat” with his supporters on Saturday after a 3-0 loss at West Brom, which left the Black Cats with just one point from their first five Premier League matches.

Heavily criticized by fans over his team’s awful start to the season, Di Canio curiously decided to face the music in similar fashion to what Mourinho had done last year. You may remember, the “Special One” walked out onto the Bernabeu pitch prior to a Real Madrid match to “offer” fans a chance to boo him personally, which they did.

Di Canio’s act, in comparison, came very much out of the blue. Instead of addressing his team in the locker room, he clearly felt he needed to give some attention to his agitated fan base. As you can see, it wasn’t particularly convincing. Di Canio shrugged his shoulders a few times and pointed to his chin, as if to say, “Keep your head up, lads”

Perhaps Di Canio should take his own advice. He may need to look around for a new job very soon.

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Doesn't surprise me tbh,once you've lost the dressing room that's it.

Damn it. I was hoping they would stick with him until they were really sunk. We need 3 teams worse than us and I thought they would be one

Bit gutted about this, hoped they'd keep him at least til we play them. On the plus side, the team is still likely to struggle with so many new players.

Was doomed from the start...
The club did nothing to help the cause with the whole racist/right wing debacle.

I am only gutted because I wanted him in charge for a while longer,they would've been certs for the drop..

Bit gutted about this, hoped they'd keep him at least til we play them. On the plus side, the team is still likely to struggle with so many new players.

Don't worry, They'll go for Poyet who'll take them down with his defensive style

Absolute madness.

How can you let a manager sign 14 players in the Summer then sack him two games after the window's shut?

They needed to give him a minimum of six months and realistically the full season.

Whoever goes in there will just say the players are shite and demand a budget in January bringing more change in.

DiCanio is his own worst enemy and got what was always coming, I'm afraid. Sunderland will be better off for it (which is a shame for the other 19 teams in the Premeir League)

Unfortunately the rumor is that the have Di Matteo is lined up to take over and he is a class act

Have always said he would take them down amd be sacked by Christmas

Hopefully he has caused enough damage, and they will still go down....

http://www.itv.com/sport/football/artic ... underland/?

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/sunderland/news/poyet-coy-over-sunderland-rumours_106628.html

Damage might already be done here. Brought in a load of players so spent all the chairmans money. Doesnt look like the players brought in are much cop either. Altidore looks ok but not sure about the rest.

To make matters worse they shipped out one of their best players in Sessengnon (sp?)

Di Canio was just one in a long line of problems for that club - if a club gets through that many managers in a relatively short period of time, questions need to be asked of the owners...

When he managed Swindon they conceded the least goals in the football league when they were promoted. The players were hungry and weathered his regime. The prima donnas at Sunderland had no fight in them and cried to the club. He curtailed their holidays for early training as they were unfit. The man wore his heart on his sleeve you got to give him that. Fronted up the crying fans aswell. Short memories , he helped keep them up last year. Hope the cunts go down sad northern bastards.

Really hope they don't get Di Matteo.