He's the worst! Furious Di Canio hauls keeper Foderingham off after just 20 minutes

[Craigy1881 79]

Swindon boss Paolo Di Canio launched into an astonishing rant at keeper Wes Foderingham after hauling him off during his side's 4-1 defeat to Preston on Sunday.

The 21-year-old was substituted after just 21 minutes with his side 2-0 down and headed straight for the tunnel.

Di Canio's public humiliation of Foderingham comes just a week after he went more than 1,000 minutes without conceding a goal.

 

When asked why he withdrew Foderingham so early, the Town boss said: 'Because he was one of the worst players I have ever seen in a football match. He is a player like the others.

 

'Why can’t we change the goalkeeper? Is the goalkeeper is an element who plays on with another team because he has a different colour on his shirt? I know my players, I know Wes – he was the crappy player even against Stoke.

 

'Today what he did, it’s not only the mistake that can happen to everyone. The arrogance later, when he started moaning to the others, that was the worst thing for me because it let me realise that a player doesn’t recognise his mistakes that was clear miles away, that was a rubbish mistake.

 

'I said to him "now calm because we have to keep going", we give the ball straight away to them and then start again moaning to the others.

 

'Today he started behaving as the worst professional; arrogant, ignorant in some way – not as a person, as an athlete – I have ever seen.

 

'If he doesn’t come out and say sorry to the fans, for the professionalism in general, he is out from my team. I don’t want any argument from the fans ‘we play Oxford, we have a season’ - no.

 

'I don’t mind because this is my rules and [Leigh] Bedwell did very, very well. Maybe he behaved like this because the window’s closed. Another question mark.

 

'I’m ready to bring in a goalkeeper. I’m ready to ask my chairman if he doesn’t go out and say sorry to everybody because this has to come from the stomach and from the heart.

 

'If he doesn’t think he made a mistake in the way he behaved he has to think who he is? Cech?

 

'He was nothing until the day he joined me, not the club but me. He didn’t have one second as a professional, nobody wanted him because he’s 181cm. In English football everybody want 199 like the f***ing Preston goalkeeper.

 

'He should have his career cut and you know that is true, but just because we believed in him and there is no importance in that because he is very good – thanks to him because he did well last year – he forgot everything. He is arrogant, he’s still 20. He thinks he’s untouchable.'

 

Foderingham was at fault for Preston's opener after five mintues when he failed to cope with a challenge from Stuart Bevon, allowing Akop Sodje to open the scoring.

 

Nicky Wroe added a second before Foderingham was replaced by 18-year-old Bedwell.

Beavon made it 3-0 just before the break before Raffaele De Vita pulled a goal back in the 57th minute.

John Welsh’s 30-yard effort sealed Preston’s win.

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2197436/Paolo-Di-Canio-rants-keeper-Wes-Foderingham.html#ixzz25OKlNqyI

 

This sounds brutal, totally gone to town on this keeper.

[andy steel 0]

You can see why he approves so much of Mussolini's ideas.

 

Good media value, but an arsehole.

[54andcounting 0]

An apology from the keeper sorted it. di Canio is a loose cannon still.

[Gazza_8 233]

Used to like di Canio and enjoyed his autobiography but what a walloper he's turning out to be.

[Zappa 0]

I think he's really funny.