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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