West Ham legend Paolo Di Canio has divulged details of a phone call he had with Sir Alex Ferguson in 2001 where he turned down the opportunity to join Manchester United.. • Carlo Ancelotti. For me, it was difficult, but the people were amazing to me and my family to try and integrate ourselves into that community. Di Canio refused to do so, instead referring each time to yesterday's official statement. With seven games remaining, Di Canio faces a fight to keep Sunderland in the top flight, particularly with top scorer Steven Fletcher out for the rest of the season with an ankle ligament injury. Disappointingly, Paolo's time in England from here on out was pretty routine - great skills, some great goals, a row with Hammers boss Glenn Roeder, but nothing . Send your videos to video@trinitymirror.com. Di Canio Explains How He Went To Celtic ( source ): "I knew Celtic wanted me and that was a little dream for me. Di Canio spent 21 months at the County Ground. But the ex . The new boss says he chose to be called that because he is on the . We analyse and we work. "Why can't you just let me play the whole game?" asked an increasingly agitated Paolo Di Canio in July 1996, after Milan coach Fabio Capello had substituted him seconds before half time . In 2005, club icon Paolo Di Canio gave a fascist salute to Lazio fans after a derby win against AS Roma. . Danny Owen. Paolo Di Canio's Wonderstrike for West Ham vs. Wimbledon - One of the greatest goals in EPL history. In part one of our interview with former Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone we talk all about his time playing under controversial former manager Paolo Di Canio. SEE ALSO: Trailer Released For New Alex Ferguson Documentary Related Articles Asking questions: Paolo Di Canio (Picture: AFP/Getty Images) Paolo Di Canio admits he had to question whether Danny Graham was even a footballer when he first took over as Sunderland boss. Danny Owen. Di Canio expects the viral audio to reach Mourinho, but feels that one of the most decorated trainers in the history of football will care little. While they would miss his goals at Juve, Di Canio wonders why United has signed him considering that they have so many attacking talents. But Di Canio wasn't - and isn't - like most people. Wickham was branded 'a play boy' by Di Canio in the press in a move that angered the young striker and . In our latest football retrospective, we look back at a 1998 incident that - even by Paolo Di Canio's standards - shocked the game at the time. His move into management has so far followed the same jagged trajectories, to the point where this week he's occupied a high and a low . Paolo Di Canio will go down in history as one of the most colourful characters in Premier League history. . It was his partnership with Di Canio, however, that he will be best remembered. • Gianluca Vialli. The pair notched 31 league goals between them in the 1999-2000 season and at times it seemed Wanchope's unpredictable play brought out the best in our fiery Italian. But when he joined up at Rangers we were able to put the whole thing behind us. Tommy Docherty vs. Lorenzo Amoruso In 2017 some Lazio fans pasted anti-Semitic stickers of Anne Frank in a Roma shirt across the city. There were probably two things that didn't help Di Canio's Italy prospects: A) the wealth of attacking talent available at the time; B) the, erm, y'know… being a bit of a mad b*stard stuff. While they would miss his goals at Juve, Di Canio wonders why United has signed him considering that they have so many attacking talents. Well, before we look at some potential reasons, here are the 10 managers that have taken the Premier League by storm since its inception in 1992: • Roberto Di Matteo. Di Canio's dismissal, which followed shortly after, was probably unavoidable. Di Canio played for Giovanni Trapattoni's Juventus and Fabio Capello's Milan, but his book is full of anecdotes about various bust-ups with managers, which probably explains why he never . Di Canio gave me a very difficult time and his attitude afterwards was totally unrepentant and therefore don't expect me to forgive him ever. Asked if he didn't want them, why were they there, Di Canio replied: "We should ask the director who has now been sacked, [Roberto] De Fanti why all the targets I mentioned to them and we had . Known to many as the most talented players to have played for Wednesday Di Canio, banned for 11 matches for his push on Alcock, was sent home to Italy, didn't hear from the club for several . Paolo Di Canio fears that Inter Milan will be on the wrong end of a Champions League hiding if Mo Salah and Sadio Mane perform to their peak in Wednesday's clash with Liverpool . • Roberto Mancini. This was the game in which a Premier League player - Paolo Di Canio - pushed . The manager has to say "why we didn't do this or do that". And David thinks oil is great so long as it powers his transatlantic 747 but not if it drowns crocodiles in Sweden. English fans will best remember the memorable Italian for his stint in the claret and blue of West Ham United.Sure, there'll be others from the 'older guard' who might recall his Sheffield Wednesday days well, or perhaps even his voyage to Swindon and Charlton as he wound down his . During a team meeting with players who, in Di Canio's view were refusing to play for him and trying to undermine his authority, the Italian allegedly spat *IN HIS OWN FACE* in order to illustrate the disrespect with which the squad were treating him. During the 90's in Italy we thought that we had the best league in the world by far, quality wise, money wise and it probably was, we also thought that we had the best national team in the world, basically we thought we were the best in everything; So, if you didn't play in Italy the National Team wouldn't even consider you. Di Canio played for Giovanni Trapattoni's Juventus and Fabio Capello's Milan, but his book is full of anecdotes about various bust-ups with managers, which probably explains why he never . The Italian maverick, who . Paolo Di Canio explained why Phil Foden's hug with Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola was special after the win over Borussia Dortmund. Football. Di Canio has explained why he is skeptical of Cristiano Ronaldo's return to the club. Di Canio won the SPFA Player of the Year Award after notching 15 goals in 37 appearances that season, but also came under criticism for his poor discipline throughout the campaign. Di Canio himself has recently finished sixth in Italy's over-45s Spartan Race series, which involves middle-aged men using their spare time to run up hills and through mud. West Ham captain Paolo Di Canio today hit back at Julian Dicks, labelling him a "traitor" to the club. Here, Paolo Di Canio became idolised by his new supporters. A closer look at the wild career of former West Ham hero Paolo Di Canio - 13 years to the day he shoved over referee Paul Alcock whilst playing for Sheffield Wednesday. Winterburn was playing for Arsenal at Sheffield Wednesday on the day in 1999 when di Canio became front page news for pushing over referee Paul Alcock after being sent off, a move which ended his Wednesday career and ultimately offered Redknapp the opportunity to bring him to West Ham, where he soon became the team's guiding . Paolo Di Canio fears that Inter Milan will be on the wrong end of a Champions League hiding if Mo Salah and Sadio Mane perform to their peak in Wednesday's clash with Liverpool . From the moment it happened, it was obvious that one thing would overshadow Sheffield Wednesday's 1-0 win over Arsenal. "When I was young I used to play Subbuteo with - strange for me at the time - this shirt with white and green horizontal stripes. It must be a different time. Yes, some of what went on seemed wrong even at the time (mostly DiFanti, I think) but his period in charge was a short period of colour . An extract from Di Canio's 2001 autobiography describing former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as "a very principled, ethical individual, who was deeply misunderstood" compounded the . He claims Ole Gunnar Solskjaer plans to play him as a striker, but Ronaldo isn't one and wouldn't enjoy that role. Paolo Di Canio didn't so much have a . This was the game in which a Premier League player - Paolo Di Canio - pushed . Paolo Di Canio has resigned as manager of League One side Swindon. Put simply, I'm not at all surprised that Paolo Di Canio's short reign at the helm of Sunderland has come to a shuddering halt. The former West Ham forward and . Following Paolo Di Canio's playing career is like keeping track of the Bitcoin exchange rate: precipitous highs (winning the Fair Play awards) and scoring spectacular goals inevitably followed by plummeting depths (brawling with refs and employers). Speaking on BT Sport last night, Di Canio's former West ham teammate Joe Cole summed up why the Italian never quite reached his potential. 15 likes "He has big shoulders, he will make his jokes . • Claudio Ranieri. Premier League clubs now 'want the season CANCELLED' even if it means Liverpool DON'T win the title with . As far as I'm concerned, he doesn't exist. (Gianluca Di Marzio - in Italian) West Ham, Sporting Lisbon and Anderlecht are among the clubs monitoring Liverpool's German goalkeeper Loris Karius, 26, who is on loan at Besiktas and available for £4.5m at the end of the season. We all loved them but, in Di Canio, we had a new hero who . Or something. Lazio's history with Fascism found its way into Premier League conversation when, in 2013, Sunderland appointed former Lazio player Paulo Di Canio, who knew Piscitelli, as their manager. Mine were Julian Dicks, Trevor Morley, Tony Cottee, Don Hutchison, John Moncur, John Hartson and Ian Bishop. But Di Canio was unflappable. "I also used to study . From the moment it happened, it was obvious that one thing would overshadow Sheffield Wednesday's 1-0 win over Arsenal. He was engaging and he wanted his team to play football. Talented players who have never played for their country (Part I) The Sunderland manager then added: "I spoke many times more […] It's those moments, along with the little things he did in each and every game that he played, that see Di Canio remembered not only as a cult . • Paolo Do Canio. 12. On this date in 1999 West Ham completed the signing of Paolo Di Canio. Back in Mourinho's Inter days, the Portuguese tactician openly declared (un-ironically) that Di Canio was one of the few people in Italy who "totally understands football." Yet Di Canio, today, remains firm on his stance that Mourinho's destructive nature in the dressing room is the beginning of the end for the man from Setubal. In Italy, we have got 20 regions and 20 different languages. It's a glorious morning in Rome and as Cisco Roma's training session draws to a close Paolo di Canio, having lead the way in every exercise and every drill, rushes into the small dressing room . Foden's late strikes in the first and the second leg of . "My dad gave me the best lesson in life. English fans will best remember the memorable Italian for his stint in the claret and blue of West Ham United.Sure, there'll be others from the 'older guard' who might recall his Sheffield Wednesday days well, or perhaps even his voyage to Swindon and Charlton as he wound down his . Paolo Di Canio. READ: A celebration of Paolo Di Canio and his second best West Ham goal He poked the ball into the far corner of the goal before racing to the away end with his arms outstretched in delirium. After receiving a ban, Di Canio had said, "I am a fascist, not a racist". By 1988, a teenage Di Canio was in Lazio's first team and although he didn't last long in his first spell at the club before playing for Juventus, Napoli, Milan, Celtic, Sheffield Wednesday . FIFA gave him a special fair play award - not bad for a bloke who just under three years previously had "assaulted" a referee and had his whole future in the game in question. Barthez's attempt to prevent a goal was unconventional: rather than readying himself to save the incoming shot, he instead raised his hand and pretended Di Canio had been flagged offside. - Di Canio reflects on a training-ground row during his time at Milan, whom he represented between 1994 and 1996. Thorsten Fink won it all as a player, apart from an international cap. And even the trains don't run on it any more. To an extent, you say those players had flair. In the years previously, we had still had heroes. Paolo di Canio. When Swindon lost at Leyton Orient earlier this month, the Italian made top billing, prompting Paul Doyle to begin his report with a worrying thought: For a while Paolo Di Canio seemed in danger . The single phrase 'good feet for a big man', now widely mocked, works on the assumption that the heterogeneous . "So I thought: 'ok, that will be a fantastic experience for me'. He couldn't get his hands on one of those, nein. "So I thought: 'ok, that will be a fantastic experience for me'. I was 25, a top player with Napoli and a . Paolo Di Canio has elaborated on his famous ban of tomato ketchup and mayonnaise among the Sunderland players, insisting that his former Sunderland squad ate "too much of it" and that it was . Part of the successful Bayern Munich squad of the '90s, albeit a lesser known member, Fink played a pivotal role in the club's success, but for one reason or another his face didn't fit on the international stage. Di Canio had played for Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham and Charlton prior to this appointment, but his stints at these clubs predate the allegiance to Fascism . Only the manager can judge, the players can have an idea in general but not judge, so Mancini was right, but . The temperamental Italian had been banned for 11 matches for pushing referee Paul Alcock and was working in a clothes shop in Ternana when the Hammers paid the £2 million needed to bring him back to England.Harry Redknapp said at the time: "He's the only one I ever wanted. The former West Ham forward and . MORE: Paolo Di Canio: I didn't know Danny Graham could even play football. Paolo Di Canio insists he will get control of transfers at Sunderland, despite having the title head coach rather than manager. Words tumbled out in colourful and expressive form, and he didn't hold back on what he demanded of his players or the club. "He . "I also used to study . I HAD a much worse run-in on the field with Paul Gascoigne than Di Canio. Football often offers the conflation of terminology with strange assumptions. Di Canio fumes at 'pathetic' goals. Still, you cannot doubt the forward's considerable talent. That was . The 44-year-old Italian was set to quit last week because of off-field events, including the sale of Matt Ritchie. The former Hammer accused the Italian of picking his games and criticised the present team . Di Canio delivered his thoughts on football in machine gun fashion. Di Canio didn't go the World Cup because, unfortunately for him (and fortunately for everyone else), there wasn't an outbreak of bubonic plague. • Attilio Lombardo. Paolo Di Canio's Wonderstrike for West Ham vs. Wimbledon - One of the greatest goals in EPL history. In Italy, Testa said, Di Canio's comment of "I am a fascist" would mean "many things.". Most prefer one of the incredibly talented individuals more than the other due to their play style or statistics, but this isn't the case for Paolo Di Canio. In Paolo Di Canio's press conference this morning in Sunderland, the new manager was asked several times by BBC reporter Dan Roan to clarify whether he remains a fascist or not. After securing promotion and with Swindon in the League One play-off positions, he quit on 18 February after becoming frustrated by off-the-field issues. Best I can gather Ed Miliband now needs to boycott the BBC and Di Canio may not be able to play his squad in Nigeria. Whilst other teams backed away from the prospect of signing Di Canio, West Ham found themselves jumping at the chance. Acting as a no-nonsense go-getter and a smart opportunist, Redknapp sought to sign the out-of-favour Italian for a knock-down price as soon as his ban had been lifted. Raffaele De Vita has played with, and for, some of the biggest names in football - but his idol Paolo di Canio stands out for many reasons Italy still overlooked him for Euro 2000 that summer — in fairness, Dino Zoff already had Alessandro Del Piero, Francesco Totti, Pippo Inzaghi and Vincenzo Montella to choose from — but Di . The Portuguese striker has re-joined the Red Devils at €15 million football transfer fee and the Old Trafford has the Former Italian striker Paolo Di Canio is skeptical of Ronaldo's return to Manchester United despite the majority of fans' enthusiasm. Most prefer one of the incredibly talented individuals more than the other due to their play style or statistics, but this isn't the case for Paolo Di Canio. One might say that with just five games played of the Premiership season it's too early for knee-jerk reactions regarding managers' jobs, but the warning signs that Di Canio didn't fit in the north-east have been present for quite some time before that. . He also compared it with the current Pierre-Emerick . AN Arsenal legend's marijuana admission, why Manchester United missed out on Renato Sanches, Paolo Di Canio's pundit axing, and Alexis Sanchez's surprise ultimate XI. A Paolo di Canio versus Jose Mourinho feud would be exactly the type of thing we need to spice up our lives at the minute. Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio was angry at captain John O'Shea after the defender's "terrible" dismissal in his side's 3-1 defeat at Crystal . Di Canio Explains How He Went To Celtic ( source ): "I knew Celtic wanted me and that was a little dream for me. Looking back, the arrival of Di Canio marked the dawn of a new era for West Ham. • Franceso Guidolin. We pay for stories! He claims Ole Gunnar Solskjaer plans to play him as a striker, but Ronaldo isn't one and wouldn't enjoy that role. "When I was young I used to play Subbuteo with - strange for me at the time - this shirt with white and green horizontal stripes. 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