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The great and the good are seething at the appointment of Paolo Di Canio as manager of Sunderland AFC, mainly because he has been quoted as saying that he is a 'fascist'.  He said at the time that he was a 'fascist not a racist' and has claimed the quote has been taken out of context.  Given he has a tattoo of Mussolini on his back and Il Duce on his arm, that's some context we are missing!

 

Would you care if our manager had 'shifty' political views or affiliaations?  If Terry Butcher came out as a member of the BNP or a committed supporter of Tommy SHeridan's People Front For Pollokshaws Swingers (Marxist-Leninist) would you leave your Caley scarf behind?  Personally I'd find it a bit weird and would prefer that footballers stuck to football but lets be honest, if a manager or a player won the team trophies would you be fussed ifhe liked Mussolini or Stalin or Pol Pot?

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I don't see what the big deal is really.  Terry Butcher's a big Conservative and apparently is responsible for putting up a picture of the Queen in the Ibrox home dressing room which remains to this day.  Brian Clough was a socialist (as was Shankly and others).  Egil Olsen was a member of the Norwegian Communist Party.

 

It's not really an issue I don't think.

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I would care if he was an extremist.  Conservative, liberal, democratic socialist, green?  Pffft, who cares?  Racist, Islamic fanatic, fascist, extreme mysoganist etc?  Beyond the pale for me.  Some things are more important than a ball in the net.  If I was a Sunderland fan, I'd be giving up all interest for a while.

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Think it would depend for me if their political views started impacting in their job as the team's manager in a negative way.  If someone was to come in and say "Hey, no black players will be welcome here", I'd have a problem with that.

 

I think in this case it's a bit of a sensationalised story.  Particularly when you consider that the likes of the BBC were happy to have Di Canio writing an online column for them when he was at Swindon. 

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Just an excuse for the PC brigade to go just a bit over the top, particularly 5live and David Miliband. Certainly will be interesting to see how Sunderland perform over the next few games given all this extra off-field attention.

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Not sure about Terry being a Conservative being relevant to be honest.

 

I wouldn't care about anyone's views at all, we are all entitled to have our own beliefs and by highlighting Di Canio's the media are guilty of what they would have us think of him.

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Just an excuse for the PC brigade to go just a bit over the top, particularly 5live and David Miliband. Certainly will be interesting to see how Sunderland perform over the next few games given all this extra off-field attention.

To be fair David Milliband has a point due to his family history. Both his parents came to this country as Jewish refugees and he lost family in the holocaust. So I can see where he is coming from.

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