It has become a normal exercise to penalize players and officials once a club could not achieve a preferred leaderboard ranking in the EPL. It becomes more viable if you at the brink of relegation which is exactly what is happening with Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio who is now facing the heat for non-performing as expected in the league. For him, it is more than a meager performance of his team and relates it with his comments about the autocracy at various clubs. Notably, he has criticized on several occasions about the fascism existed at many clubs, perhaps he was forced to release a statement contradicting his earlier statements about fascism last month. Italian manager is also very surprised to see frequent changes in the key positions of a club in England, perhaps he is more amazed to see how managers and coaches are being changed every now then which is nowhere helping clubs expecting a better performance on the field. Canio joined the club in March after owner Ellis Short fired Martin O’Neill in similar fashion.
Facing the rumors of sacking for reaching at the threshold of relegation, he revealed his meeting with club owner Ellis Short and said, “I told him, ‘Tell me what I have to do. Bye bye. No problem, because I do not want to be a problem for the club.
“If I don’t represent a problem for you I am okay, I am ready to handle the pressure. It is no pressure for me. All day rubbish me, I don’t care. It is my life, but if you think ‘mmm, probably yeah, I let you be free’, I don’t want nothing and I go’.
“He said, ‘Absolutely, you have to stay. You are our man.
“That for me was enough. Refocus. I will never forget what he did. He gave me a big chance of my dream to become manager at the top level. Next year I hope I can be here. You never know what is going on in life.
“In this moment, he did not give up, he gave me 100 per cent, 200 per cent support. He convinced me to stay because he said you are our man. He is the owner, he picked me. I can’t forget for the rest of my life, no matter what happens in the future.”
Moreover, he also expressed his deep concerned over English tradition of frequently changing coaches, he added, “In England it’s common to have a manager and a coach. I often think that’s strange. If players are trained during the week by one person and then another comes to the touchline during games, they surely can’t recognise the advice, the codes. It’s easier for the players if it’s done by the same person. It’s more natural.”