text: He is forthright and single-minded in his views. He says what he thinks. As the song goes, 'he does what he wants'. There is little room for compromise, there is little room for consideration.
  Now, before the bloodthirsty amongst you put fingers to keyboards, I freely admit that these are qualities that can add another dimension to a manager and a team. But surely they have to be used responsibly?
  For as long as the team are succeeding and playing good football Di Canio will, quite rightly from a footballing point of view, be revered.
  He has revolutionised the way the first team functions, he has brought glory to a place where gloom had set in like a heavy frost.
  But there is an unsettling backdrop to all this success. A fragility and bitter sentiment that is palpable when you scrape below the crust. What has caused it is up for debate, but airing dirty laundry to such a scale cannot help. It just can't.
  If the manager wants to revamp his youth department, no problem - I'm sure relevant negotiations could take place behind closed doors, in confidence, dealt with sensitively and appropriately. Why bring it all out in the open? Why lambast good men and women who do their best for the club?
  Of course the youth department were not a match for Liverpool, the Robins' academy functions on a fraction of the cost of one of the Reds' star players. You would hope and expect that a club operating on an annual budget around 25 times smaller than Town's would be put to the slaughter if ever the two met.
  And so it comes back to Thursday, that press conference and its aftermath - the anonymous posters who spit bile at the slightest mention of the truth.
  People misunderstand what the local media reports. Goading and coaxing, sensationalising and winding-up? No chance. No need. The manager does that all himself.
  And what would you, the reader, rather we did? Wipe it under the carpet and pretend it never happened?
  Now that would be amateur journalism.
  BOSS DESERVES CREDIT FOR SACRIFICING 'BRAND DI CANIO'
  WHILE I can disagree plenty with the way Paolo Di Canio uses the public forum to bring his gripes to light it is impossible this week not to recognise his own personal sacrifice for the sake of the club.
  The Di Canio brand is a multi-million pound entity, it circumnavigates Planet Football.
  Di Canio could set himself up for life flogging his name around the consumer world, piling up endorsements and personal sponsorships, so to see him give away his image rights for free to enable his players to receive world class treatment at the Villa Stuart facility in Rome is fantastic to see.
  I don't think I will ever personally accept his unorthodox man-management techniques, but in this instance he showed a devotion to the success of the team which doesn't generally happen in the modern game.
  His humility in keeping it all under wraps until he found it imperative to share with Swindon Town fans was another glowing character reference.