The Sale Goes Through at Last!
The sale of the club has gone through and the new owners are settling into the boardroom at Swindon Town Football Club. However, there has still been no direct word from Jed McCrory and the other members of the new consortium regarding their plans for the club. The statement released on the Swindon town website (Swindon Town Statement) was from Sir William Patey, the outgoing chairman, and allowed him to indirectly vent his spleen over the departure of Paolo Di Canio and his team of backroom staff. The words are very telling and serve to illustrate the breakdown in relations between the manager and the club's board, and the chairman in particular. Reading posts on various forums, the fickleness of the average football fan seems to be coming to the fore with many people, who probably wholeheartedly supported Paolo Di Canio prior to the events of Monday 18th February, are now condemning him without recourse to the full facts. For his part, Di Canio has released a statement via the Swindon Advertiser (Paolo Di Canio's Statement in the Adver) where, apart from describing his frustrations, he states that the board have not responded to his resignation letter of 12th February. If this piece of information is coupled to the fact that the new owners have kept silent for the time being, perhaps there is a way back for Paolo and his management team? After all, if the club hasn't accepted his resignation and those of the backroom staff who left two days later, they are technically still employees of the club. I would be in support of this scenario, the one where Paolo Di Canio and his team take up where thay left off, but, as stated in a previous post (Implosion at SN1, but Still Top of the League!), the volatile Italian would probably have to eat a large piece of humble pie before he's allowed through the doors of the County Ground again.The Daily Mail
A ridiculously puerile and condescending article was written in the Daily Mail on the 20th February regarding Martin Samuel's opinion of Paolo Di Canio. He's entitled to his opinion, but what I take exception to is the tone of the article in relation to Swindon Town Football Club and the lower leagues of the English game. Read the article here (Daily Mail Article) and you decide. The other thing that has annoyed me is the fact that, despite trying three times, the Daily Mail has failed to print my comment. In view of that, below is my retort:
A typical, condescending, Premier League biased piece of
reporting. It doesn't matter, it's only Swindon Town! They only have an average
gate of 8,000. Well those 8,000 support their home team and do not hold to the
franchise aspect of supporting a team from another part of the country with
which they have no cultural heritage and no allegiance. The story from SN1 is
significant as it highlights the lack of communication between the two factions
(outgoing board and those wanting to buy the club) and the despicable way that
the manager, the man charged with bringing success on the pitch, has been left
out of the loop. Paolo Di Canio has been a breath of fresh air in his honesty
and the way his heart is firmly emblazoned on his sleeve. The manner in which
you dismiss a lower league story as not having any significance in the great
scheme of things illustrates the blinkered view in this country that the only
thing that matters in modern day football is the Premier League and the
"Big Four".
Would you agree with me?
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