Di Canio: I'm not crazy

Paolo di Canio has used his BBC blog to explain why he’s not crazy!

The Swindon boss has rarely been out of the headlines since the season started with his reaction to substituting goalkeeper Wes Foderingham at Preston after 21 minutes sparking a media frenzy.

Di Canio explained: “Good managers study psychology and after the goal Wes conceded, for 17 minutes he kept moaning and arguing with his team-mates. It was not the fact he conceded, but that he kept arguing with his team-mates.

“If we kept on going like that we would have conceded seven or eight goals and I don’t want myself or the players to be part of a team that is going to make a negative moment in the club’s history.

“When I make decisions, it is not because I am crazy, changing someone for a simple mistake. As Wes went out he kicked the bottle, screaming bad words. I did not react and concentrated on the players involved in the game. At the end, I made a comment because someone asked me what I thought about the incident.

“On that day Wes was not a good example to the other guys. The media can argue why I changed the goalkeeper, but not say “Paolo Di Canio was wrong”. Why was I wrong? Since that moment Wes has become a better goalkeeper, so who was correct, Paolo Di Canio or the media?

“It feels as though there is something against Paolo Di Canio the manager because a few weeks later in the same ground the Preston manager Graham Westley and the Crawley boss Richie Barker were pushing each other and screaming bad words at each other and I did not read one line in the newspapers about this.

“I don’t want to think there is something against me as a manager but I would like to see more honest comments.”

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