Question of the day - is Swindon full of fascists?

[Yesterday Once More]

Because I don't recall a murmur about it when Di Canio was manager there....

[PSRB]

[Nicosia Gooner]

I wouldn't feel comfortable with it at all, would still get on with my job but morale would certainly be low

[Luis Anaconda]

I'd be surprised if he wasn't

[Supermac1976]

http://frombristolwithlove.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/paolo-di-canio-fash2.jpg?w=500

Di Canio is a ****er, he wears a fascist hat.
He’s plays at being Nazi, and he is a f**kin’ tw*t.
He sucks up to the Ultras, by saluting to the right.
And now the c**t’s at Swindon, he is a load of sh*te.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Supermac1976]

[Berni]

He not only pointed out that the use of Di Canio's quotes was incredibly and misleadingly selective, he landed a particularly telling blow when he asked her if she knew what job Di Canio had done before the move to Sunderland (she didn't).

[Classic Jorge]

It's like there being a mutual hatred between the asthmatic and the kid with the leg braces.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

Rather than an actual thing

[PSRB]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

He should keep that won for his youtube highlights reel that he uses to convince people he's a real, qualified journalist.

[Classic Jorge]

Kind of makes it tough to rebut anything

[PSRB]

something to do with a manager I believe

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Supermac1976]

I'm quite taken with women with south west accents.

[Berni]

Not only are they far too geographically distant from one another to have a rivalry, they also both have as their major achievement almost winning a cup final against United. How does one establish bragging rights in a situation like that?

[Berni]

Although I grant you that if they came out offering Roman salutes and Lee Cattermole invaded Abyssinia, that would liven things up a bit.

[PSRB]

my mate is a Brighton fan and he did explain it to me (very passionately) but I lost interest about halfway through, so can't remember the reason for it

[Supermac1976]

He received slightly less praise for his decision, having just been shown a red card while playing for Sheffield Wednesday against Arsenal in 1998, to shove referee Paul Alcock in the chest. The official fell to the ground in a slow, spiralling movement; the consequence of what looked like a doomed, Oliver Hardyesque attempt to dignify his collapse with an element of grace.

"One moment," Di Canio argues, "can erase everything else you've accomplished in your career. I didn't kill anybody. I pushed a referee. We all know that's wrong. But it can happen. And if it happens, you take your punishment. I was banned for 11 games. But you remember the press. People said I was a barbarian..."

"And mad," I remind him. "And wretched. And 'a man with a mind like a blast furnace'. And a gypsy: your former manager David Pleat called you that."

"I took 'gypsy' as a compliment. Pleat made me laugh."

It was the late Tony Banks, then Minister for Sport, who said, "Barbarian go home," according to Di Canio. "Somebody wrote that what I'd done was worse than [the] Hillsborough [disaster], where 96 people died. I still have the cutting."

In Paolo Di Canio: The Autobiography, published in 2000 and ghost-written by the distinguished journalist and broadcaster

Gabriele Marcotti, Di Canio claims that his dismissal was precipitated by a foul by Patrick Vieira. He recalls that he approached Vieira and admonished him as follows. "Patrick. Come on. There is no need for that. Cut it out." A few seconds later, Arsenal's Martin Keown caught Di Canio in the face with his elbow – accidentally, according to the defender. What infuriated the Italian was that, "Alcock initially sent only me off."

After pushing the referee over ("Even now, when I watch it, I can't believe the way he went down, like a drunken clown"), Di Canio was approached by Arsenal's Nigel Winterburn, who had run the width of the pitch to confront him.

"He was shouting, 'You *******! You're done! You f**king Italian *******! You're finished!'" k

At which point Winterburn looked at Di Canio and, realising he was staring into the eye of what appeared to be a true psychotic, flinched in anticipation of a blow that never came. He then retreated with some urgency, having noticed a divot that needed replacing.

[Classic Jorge]

[PSRB]

I fully expect that match to "go off"

[Supermac1976]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[barrybueno]

I'd draw the line with a Labour voting Utd fan though... Got to have some principles

[Classic Jorge]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.newkits.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/coventry-2.gif

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Supermac1976]

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9291/mock5.jpg

[Berni]

that, while Di Canio was a fascist, he wasn't one of the bad kind of fascist. He was more your friendly, acceptable face of fascism. :rubchin:

[redgunamo]

My word :-|

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

Perhaps Di Canio is the sort who'd send you by taxi.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

:rubchin:

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Berni]

Is it wrong that I always thought that was actually a pretty cool strip? http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Luis Anaconda]

Good - but long article on it here


http://www.sabotagetimes.com/reportage/brighton-and-crystal- palace-the-unlikely-rivalry-that-sparked-a-war/ (http://www.sabotagetimes.com/reportage/brighton-and-crystal-palace-the-unlikely-rivalry-that-sparked-a-war/)

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

And Lemmy, for that matter.

I think the Nazis at least had the good grace to look like proper baddies, think how **** Raiders of the Lost Arc would have been if they were in the Kaiser era uniforms.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Berni]

At the moment, I think Kim Jong Un is the world's finest exponent of the evil supervillain look. Great haircut, great 'podgy spoiled monster' look... just excellent work all round. I'm a big fan.
http://cdn.theweek.co.uk/sites/theweek/files/styles/theweek_article_main_image/public/kim-jong-un-2.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[The Tony]

[Classic Jorge]

[Supermac1976]

http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w61/geordiegooner/northkoreabracing_zpsf6703707.gif

[PSRB]

[Berni]

The concept of human rights is silly enough.

[Classic Jorge]

Do you think anybody in there has ever seen that film? I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when they screened that

[Supermac1976]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

that it cannot be watched by the general populace.You do wonder if a minor snigger escaped during that sequence, though.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Brentwood]

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

Nazis.

[Classic Jorge]

Though that's more in the application of a regime than the actual main tenets of it

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

without communism the west would have fallen

[Mo Britain less Europe]

hadn't invaded Russia but they would have been beaten anyway. their failure to invade GB was their downfall.

[redgunamo]

hate the Commies.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

It's much easier now we all worship the one true god

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[barrybueno]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Supermac1976]

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

[redgunamo]