Di Canio

[Dublin12]

The scumbag is in trouble again for giving more Nazi salutes to the Lazio fans in their game against Livorno.He said "I will always salute as I did yesterday because it gives me a sense of belonging to my people" ,muppet.Why don't they just ban him full stop,this sort of thing is not good for the game.How many kids are gonna follow in his footsteps now .

[OwlsFan]

Since when did making a Mussolini salute result in a life time ban for a footballer ? One of the greatest players to wear the blue and white stripes and, but for that push on the referee, Wednesday would not be in the plight they're in now. Volatile, vain, disloyal but a great player and some silly outdated salute is hardly worth a lifetime ban. It wasn't a Nazi salute by the way - they copied it from the Italian fascists.

[Dublin12]

Since when did making a Mussolini salute result in a life time ban for a footballer ? One of the greatest players to wear the blue and white stripes and, but for that push on the referee, Wednesday would not be in the plight they're in now. Volatile, vain, disloyal but a great player and some silly outdated salute is hardly worth a lifetime ban. It wasn't a Nazi salute by the way - they copied it from the Italian fascists.

What a load of ****!,call the salute what you want,try to cover it up but at the end of the day it's a nazi, right wing, racist jesture and in this day and age and has no place in football.Ban the cnut yes and make an example of him,this needs too be stamped out it's a bad example to set.

[deadman]

F*ck that, footballers don't have to be role models ... it's got nothing to do with football. let the law decide his legal fate and then just let him play footie

[Redtop]

what i seen of it in the papers it just looked like he was waving at the fans nothing racist (looking) about it

[jebus]

How could you condone a lifetime ban for something like giving a fascist salute in the heat of the moment? The Liverno fans (who are very left wing) had been giving him grief all afternoon over his Mussolini tattoo and in the heat of the moment gave the fascist salute. Stupid thing to do yes, something that deserves anything other than a fine no.

[Jon'o]

How could you condone a lifetime ban for something like giving a fascist salute in the heat of the moment?

He's done it once before though has'nt he?

[Bosco]

He did it after scoring in the rome derby this time last year

[Marked Man]

The Liverno fans (who are very left wing) had been giving him grief all afternoon over his Mussolini tattoo and in the heat of the moment gave the fascist salute.

Yes, really quite unsporting of them, that. What else is a facist sympathiser supposed to do in the face of such blatant provocation?

[Lim till i die]

Is he not as much entitled to be a facist as the Livorno fans are to be communist

I'll admit it was an incredibly stupid thing to do in a volatile athmosphere like that and as such he should be fined and banned for a couple of games, but giving a man a lifetime ban for his political beliefs???

Come off it, for fupp sake

[pedro]

The Liverno fans (who are very left wing) had been giving him grief all afternoon over his Mussolini tattoo

any1 got pics of dicanios tattoo's?
I read his Biography and have to say i like the guy, he's skillfull, entertaining, cotroversial and passionate what more do you want from a sport that is all about spectacle and entertainment????

[Marked Man]

Is he not as much entitled to be a facist as the Livorno fans are to be communist

Yes, he is as entitled to believe in a state based on the unification of military and corporate power, with those not belonging to the favored caste being eliminated as Liverno fans are to believe in the replacement of centralized state power by democratic workers' syndicates.

Doesn't mean he shouldn't be punished for it though.

[Lim till i die]

Yes, he is as entitled to believe in a state based on the unification of military and corporate power, with those not belonging to the favored caste being eliminated as Liverno fans are to believe in the replacement of centralized state power by democratic workers' syndicates.

Doesn't mean he shouldn't be punished for it though.

Punished for his beliefs??

And to think Di Canio is being called a facist.

[OwlsFan]

Liverno fans are to believe in the replacement of centralized state power by democratic workers' syndicates.

Communism through rose tinted glasses We've seen how that system has worked in Stalinist Soviet Union and China where, like in fascist regimes, if you ain't for us then you're agin' us and get put up against a wall. Very little to choose between the two dictatorships.

The political beliefs of a footballer should have nothing to do with the game and he shouldn't have made the gesture but it's no big deal - except in the media of course.

[Lim till i die]

Yes, he is as entitled to believe in a state based on the unification of military and corporate power, with those not belonging to the favored caste being eliminated as Liverno fans are to believe in the replacement of centralized state power by democratic workers' syndicates.

Doesn't mean he shouldn't be punished for it though.

Hate to sound dumb but isn't one of the aims of communism the centralisation of state power

[anto1208]

i think he should be banned , so much effort goes into the effort to rid football a racisim and then this moron starts giving nazi salutes for a second time .

he then says they are his people and he wont say sorry as its only the jews that are complaining and he has no interest in what they think , his people as he puts it are the same one s that turned up with a banner saying something along the lines of " 'Auschwitz is your town, the ovens are your houses' at the roma derby ,roma having a large jewish support .


to think people here are condoning it is quite unsettling .

[Marked Man]

Communism through rose tinted glasses We've seen how that system has worked in Stalinist Soviet Union and China where, like in fascist regimes, if you ain't for us then you're agin' us and get put up against a wall. Very little to choose between the two dictatorships.

The political beliefs of a footballer should have nothing to do with the game and he shouldn't have made the gesture but it's no big deal - except in the media of course.

Communism as defined by Marx. Which has nothing to do with dictatorships. (Which is why many on the left always derided USSR style government as State Capitalism).

Facism requires dictatorship; it's part and parcel of the combination of military and corporate power.

I really don't understand how anyone can think making this salute, and hence endorsing what Mussolini's government was party to is "no big deal." If a player lifted his jersey to reveal "I support the killing/forced removal of Irish nationals from Italy" would that be no big deal too?

[Marked Man]

Hate to sound dumb but isn't one of the aims of communism the centralisation of state power

According to Marx, the central goal of communism is the withering away of state power. Stalin and Mao were in favor of centralised power--i.e., dictatorship. I'd go with Marx on this one.

[Marked Man]

Punished for his beliefs??

And to think Di Canio is being called a facist.

He can believe what he wants. Acting on it is a different story. Minimally, he should be punished for bringing the game into disrepute.

[Fergie's Son]

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to think people here are condoning it is quite unsettling .

Nobody is condoning it, people are supporting free speech and the right for people to express themselves no matter how noxious it may be. Where do you draw the line? In your zeal to protect you may end up destroying what makes Western civilization so good.