U17s go goal crazy
WHUFC.com
Steve Potts' youngsters recorded a welcome 7-2 friendly victory over
Dagenham and Redbridge
21.02.2013
Steve Potts guided West Ham United's youngsters to a 7-2 Under-17 friendly
victory over Dagenham and Redbridge on Thursday. With the Hammers having a
free weekend in their Barclays U18 Premier League Tier One fixture list and
the club's U16 schoolboys available due to the half-term holiday, Potts took
the opportunity to welcome the Daggers to Little Heath. Portugal U17 striker
Marcio Martins, who recently returned from a successful spell on
international duty at the Algarve Tournament, netted a hat-trick, while
schoolboys Jerry Amoo, Reece Burke and Jami Rafati were also on target. The
scoring was completed by an own-goal. Potts was pleased with West Ham's
victory, with his side racing into a 4-1 half-time lead before keeping their
collective foot on the gas after the break to score three more goals. "We
had a mixture of first-year scholars and Under-16 schoolboys and we played
some really good football and scored the goals to go with it," said the
manager. "The players have been playing well in the league in the last few
weeks but haven't quite got the results. "On Thursday, we put the ball into
the back of the net and it was very pleasing on the eye and very good. "I
think everyone did well in their own way but the midfield played very well.
They linked the game up well - Moses Makasi, Kieran Bywater and Kieran
Sadlier - and alternated their roles quite well. A few of the younger boys -
Kyle Knoyle and Jerry Amoo - came in and obviously Marcio up top got himself
a hat-trick, so that was good."
Potts closed by urging the club's scholars to keep aiming for the top, with
Development Squad places possibly up for grabs ahead of next Tuesday's
Barclays U21 Premier League trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers. "They are
certainly getting pushed in the league we are in at the moment and every
game is a difficult game, and the way we have been pushing them up the
age-groups as much as we can has certainly tested the boys. "To be honest,
we saw the benefit of that against Dagenham because we looked very strong
out there and the football was good. Hopefully, in the long-term, we are
doing the right thing."
Under-17s: Baxter, Knoyle, Onariase, Marlow (Burke 59), Mavila, Bywater
(Rafati 59), Makasi, Sadlier, Parfitt (Pike 59), Amoo, Martins
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Parkes remembers 'humble' Moore
WHUFC.com
Our tribute to the great Bobby Moore continues with Phil Parkes' memories
21.02.2013
Twenty years ago this Sunday, West Ham United and England's greatest-ever
defender passed away. Bobby Moore OBE, the first Hammers captain to lift the
FA Cup and the only man to skipper England to FIFA World Cup glory, was just
51 when he lost his battle with bowel cancer in February 1993. In a
week-long tribute to Moore, the official website, West Ham TV and the
Official Programme for the Barclays Premier League visit of Tottenham
Hotspur on Monday 25 February will feature a series of interviews and
features paying homage to West Ham's No6. Goalkeeper Phil Parkes made 344
league appearances for the Hammers between 1979-1990, and although his time
at the Boleyn Ground didn't coincide with Bobby's, he has fond memories from
an appearance.alongside him in a match in 1970.
He told West Ham TV: "Bobby was still playing for England when I first got
into the squad, so we were in a lot of those squads together. "The only time
I actually played with him though was way back in 1970 when I signed for
QPR. I got called very late to play in a testimonial game at Reading for
Dennis Allen, who was Martin Allen's father. It was a London XI v a Reading
XI and I think Gerry Francis, myself and Dave Clement got pulled in as young
lads to fill places.
"I was only 19 or 20 years old - and four years earlier I'd been watching
Bobby Moore lift the World Cup, with everyone else at Wembley - and he was
the first person who came over as I walked into the dressing room. "He put
his hand out and said 'hello, who are you? I'm Bobby Moore'. I almost wanted
to say 'what are you introducing yourself to me for because everyone knows
who you are', but that's the kind of person he was. He'd come over to chat
to you and he put us really at ease, even though we were playing with some
real superstars. He was an amazing person."
This week, West Ham TV will bring you interviews with those who knew Moore
best, including his daughter Roberta and his former West Ham, Fulham and
England team-mates.
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Twenty years gone, never forgotten
WHUFC.com
Supporters are invited to pay their respects to Bobby Moore on the 20th
anniversary of his passing
10.02.2013
West Ham United will mark the 20th anniversary of the passing of Hammers and
England legend Bobby Moore OBE around the weekend of the Barclays Premier
League fixture with Tottenham Hotspur. The Hammers' 1964 FA Cup and 1965
European Cup Winners' Cup-winning captain passed away at the age of 51 on 24
February 1993 following a dignified battle with bowel cancer. To honour his
memory, a wreath-laying ceremony will take place at the Heroes statue on the
corner of Green Street and Barking Road at 11am on Sunday 24 February.
There, club officials will pay their respects on the 20th anniversary of
Moore's death, and supporters are invited to attend too. The following
evening, at West Ham's home match with Spurs on Monday 25 February, a series
of special events are planned to commemorate the life of the man who
skippered England to FIFA World Cup glory in July 1966. A host of Moore's
contemporaries have been invited to attend as special guests of the club,
including fellow World Cup winners and West Ham team-mates Martin Peters and
Geoff Hurst, and five-times Hammer of the Year Sir Trevor Brooking. Prior to
kick-off, a minute's applause will be held in memory of the man who made 544
appearances for the Hammers between 1958 and 1974. Supporters sitting in the
Bobby Moore Stand will also be invited to take part in displaying a special
mosaic depicting Moore's famous claret and blue No6 shirt, which was retired
by the club in August 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of the defender's
West Ham debut.
The Match is also one of this seasons designated Bobby Moore Fund matches
and the Fund will be the beneficiary of all charitable activity carried out
at this fixture. A special 100-page Official Programme is also being
produced for the occasion, including exclusive memories of Moore from those
who knew him best, on and off the pitch. Priced at £4, a donation of 50
pence from the sale of each programme will be made to the Bobby Moore Fund
for Cancer Research UK.
A bucket collection will also be held at the Boleyn Ground to allow
supporters to make their own personal donations to the charity founded in
Moore's memory devoted to fighting the disease that took his life. The West
Ham squad will also warm-up in Bobby Moore Fund T-shirts before kick-off to
create awareness for the charity and the first team players will sign the
shirts they play in on the night in order that they can be auctioned to
further boost the club's fundraising total for the charity.
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Viva Bobby Moore: Jonathan Pearce
KUMb.com
Filed: Thursday, 21st February 2013
By: Chris Scull
KUMB.com caught up with Match of the Day presenter Jonathan Pearce, a former
colleague of Bobby Moore's at Capital Gold, for a chat about the former West
Ham captain on the 20th anniversary of his passing. Firing the questions on
behalf of Knees up Mother Brown was Chris Scull...
Jonathan - thank you for talking to us. Why do so many consider Bobby
England's finest?
I think it was the way he played and the way he conducted himself on and off
the pitch. He was a master of the 'steal' tackle - he used to steal the ball
but very rarely went to ground, you'll remember that fantastic tackle in
Mexico 1970 against Jairzinho but also in the 1975 Cup Final for Fulham
against West Ham when he nicked the ball there. He was fantastic at that art
and a fantastic passer of the ball but it was just the way he led people,
let alone the West Ham and England teams. Beckenbauer and Pele have said
that he was the best defender ever and he was certainly the best defender I
ever saw play.
Were you in awe the first time you met him?
Not really, because Bobby was so easy with everyone. He made you feel
special right from the first moment you met him, he built you up to be as
important as he was in any given situation. Your ideas were as valid as his,
your suggestions and thoughts on football were equally valid. He just put
people at ease and treated me the same way as people he'd won the World Cup
with, great legends of the game. And he was an unbelievable person really,
the finest man I've ever met in football and one of the finest I've met in
my life.
What was he like as a colleague?
He loved being part of a team. At that time we ran Capital Gold very much on
the same lines as a team; we had our season, we had our pre-season, we had
our Christmas do, our end of season bash. We worked week-to-week and had a
lot of young reporters coming through, most of whom are now working in
television and Bobby was great with them.
He wasn't an overly vocal captain. Did he ever have any advice for you as a
football commentator?
What he did, he wouldn't sit and say "this is a tip for how you should
commentate on football" because he didn't know commentary and he was very
good at commenting on defensive performances. He wanted defenders to play
the way some are playing now; he didn't ever want them to lunge in with a
challenge. But what he would do was tell the younger reporters stories of
the past and he just used to enchant people like that. Because of that he
increased their overall knowledge of the game, he enriched your experience
of it.
It came about because a friend of mine called Mick Lowes, who used to work
with me - probably the best radio commentator I've ever worked with - who's
now up at BBC Radio Newcastle. I had a friend called Steve Lillis who worked
at the [Daily] Sport newspaper and Steve said that Bobby wanted to do more
from a social situation. We then progressed it, spoke to Bob and from the
minute he came to speak to us he wanted to come in and join us.
Was I surprised that he didn't have a role in football? Yes I was and to
this day I'm astonished and disgusted by the fact that football ignored him
for so long. People say "oh, he'd never make a manager, he's too nice" -
that's utter rubbish. He was never given the chance at a club with resources
and I think he could have passed on his knowledge to footballers of any age.
He certainly could have played the same ambassadorial role that Beckenbauer
did with the German Football Association.
He was chronically underused by the game so was I surprised that he was
available to us? Yes. Was I surprised that he wanted to come and join us?
No. It was almost as if he was back in the dressing room again and he loved
that.
What was the reaction when you walked down the street with Bobby?
You get a lot of double-takes, you know and then inevitably you'd have
people... When we used to go to away games we'd sit on a wall somewhere or
stand outside a fish and chip shop eating chips from paper or go to a cafe
or service station on the way like ordinary fans and he loved that. He'd
never experienced that side [of the game] as a player and he really enjoyed
it.
Inevitably fans would come up and talk to him, he'd talk the hind legs off a
donkey if they wanted to talk about football. He really concentrated on the
football of there and then, he never talked about himself or his own career.
He was more interested in talking about the current players and he'd ask
fans what they thought. That was it really; he always used to listen to the
thoughts of other people and those thoughts were as important to him as his
own. He was very good with fans and if they were ever bothering him on a
train he used to say "excuse me boys, a man of my age needs to shut his eyes
now and again - I must have 40 winks" - and he'd close his eyes and pretend
to be asleep until they'd gone when he'd open his eyes and say "have they
gone Pearco?" and carry on the conversation! Because he was Bobby they used
to take that on board!
It's funny, but he was a devil at cutting people up on the road in his car.
If you hit a traffic jam or something like that on a motorway Bob would
always be roaring along in the outside lane then cut in late. People would
be honking their horns but as soon as they realised who it was they'd pull
up alongside him again, pull an autograph book out of the window and ask him
to sign it! One minute they were enraged by him, next minute they saw it was
Bobby Moore and they were enchanted again. He had the ability to enchant
anyone; as soon as he entered a room, heads turned.
Did he have as much humility as people say?
Yeah, I think that's what made him so special really; he was so humble.
World Cup '66 wasn't about him; World Cup '66 wasn't about Peters and Hurst,
the goalscorers in the Final - it was about George Cohen, Ray Wilson, Nobby
Stiles and Jack Charlton. He used to talk about all of them, he used to talk
about the forgotten squad members. He used to talk to me about those people.
I can't remember where we were but I remember saying... The context was that
someone had said to me about playing, or something, and I said "no, I wasn't
good enough". Although I trained at Bristol City when I was a kid I never
had any pace, couldn't head a ball or get over the half way line and back in
the same week! Mooro, quick as a flash turned round and said "well neither
could I Pearco and look what happened to me!"
He was just like that, very self-deprecating. He'd had a wonderful career;
this was a man who captained his country for a joint record amount of times.
In fact, thinking back to it I remember having a conversation with him about
that and he was so proud that he'd captained his country as many times as
Billy Wright, I think it was. He was very proud of that record, I know that
but he was a very modest man.
When you were sat with Bobby at Wembley against San Marino, did you get a
sense that he was saying goodbye to the scene of his many triumphs?
No. In fact he was, but no I didn't. I only found out how seriously ill he
was the previous Saturday morning when a newspaper man phoned me up and said
the papers were going to run a story saying that Bobby was terminally ill. I
was just about to go out the door to an Arsenal versus Nottingham Forest Cup
tie and Bobby was off to Chelsea against Villa, I seem to remember. When I
spoke to him on the phone he told me what the situation was and I was
absolutely distraught, because the previous day I had been in hospital and
had the all-clear from a cancer scare. I'd phoned him up on that Friday,
talked to him and he never even let slip. Then, the following day, he told
me what the score was and I was in an awful state.
He asked me to come over to the house to do an interview. He was going to do
two interviews; one with me for the radio and TV around the world and
another one that Jeff Powell was going to do for the newspapers. So I went
down on the Monday and he was still very positive; he wanted people to think
that he believed he could beat the illness because he didn't want people to
give in if they had cancer, he wanted people to fight against it. He didn't
want to appear defeated even though he knew he was dying. I don't think
either he nor I thought it was going to be so quickly from that moment.
On the Wednesday he went to Wembley and he was fine during the game,
absolutely fine. The pictures that went round the world clearly shocked the
world and Stephanie, his wife and I decided that he shouldn't go to West Ham
on the Saturday against Newcastle because they'd have had a camera lens in
his face and we just didn't think that it would be fitting. We thought it
would be very upsetting for the family, so I phoned him up and told him I
didn't think he should go. He respected me - he didn't agree with the
decision but was happy with it. He respected everything that I'd always said
to him and that was it really. Sadly I never got the chance to speak to him
again because he died the following Wednesday.
I was out of the country in Goa when he died. So I'm pretty convinced that
he didn't know that night would be his last Wembley. I think he knew he'd
never see England win another trophy but I think he'd have known that since
Euro 1992. So he knew that he'd never see them win anything which deeply
saddened him. But he was so incredibly positive, even in the last days. He
took it remarkably stoically, an incredibly brave man.
You've mentioned with regret that you persuaded Bobby to stay away from the
Newcastle match shortly before he died. If you could turn back the clock,
would you have changed this?
No. No, I wouldn't. The fact is I never had the chance to speak to him again
and that will live with me for the rest of my life. But I've spoken to
Stephanie about it - we've had long conversations about it. Bobby didn't
hold anything against me for it, he respected my decision and that was it. I
wish he was here today; I wish he had lived to see my kids and I wished he'd
live to lead his son Dean down a healthier path. I wish he'd lived to see
his grandchildren on Roberta's side, I wish he was here today - but
unfortunately that cannot be. But would I have exposed him to that circus on
the Saturday? No I wouldn't - and it would have been a circus. It would have
been too much for his family to take at that time.
Do you recall the tributes at Upton Park in 1993?
I was out of the country and didn't come back for ten days afterwards, so
missed a great deal of it. Everything was taped for me; I watched the first
two minutes of film footage of the floral tributes, the scarves and the
shirts outside of Upton Park but it was too much, I couldn't watch any more.
It was too hard for me to watch. I've still got the tapes; I've not watched
them since. It's still too raw. You know, I wasn't in Bobby's family - I was
only a friend but he had that effect on people. I thought it was a
remarkable testament to the man, the way the game came together and the way
the minute's silence was meticulously observed around the country. The way
the football world came together.
I think it was the first time really that that had happened, that the
football world came together for one man. It's happened subsequently but not
to the same effect and I think it was just unparalleled, really. It just
spoke volumes about his importance to the world game and his standing in the
world game.
How should have the FA and West Ham United used Bobby while he was alive?
He should have had an ambassadorial role, like I said earlier, at least. He
could have been fantastic going into schools and encouraging kids to play
football. I think he would have certainly been a person worthy to have in
your back room staff or even as a manager at a club but he was never really
given the opportunity. He had that spell at Oxford City where he introduced
Harry Redknapp to football coaching - that was Harry's first job, so there's
a legacy. He had a dabble at Southend and then became a director there but
there was no money so he was on a loser right from the start. I think he
would have developed, he was very young at that stage. People come in now in
their 30s, late 30s as manager and people say they're too young. AVB came
in, "oh he's far too young to be a manager". Bobby was still young then and
had he been trusted with a role in his 40s I think he would have done it
very well.
If he were still alive, what do you imagine he'd be doing now?
I think he would have carried on doing what he did with me as long as he
wanted, as long as I was there. I think he would have got more TV because
suddenly, with Sky, TV blossomed and there were more opportunities. He
certainly would have got more media work. Then, with Sky blossoming there
were more commercial opportunities through sponsors, boot companies and
things like that. I think they would have got Bobby on board in some way or
another. Would he have been used by companies like McDonalds in the same way
Geoff Hurst had been to flag up their coaching scheme? Probably, but I don't
think the FA would have used him because have they used Bobby Charlton?
Trevor [Brooking] is the figurehead, Trevor's a different sort of character.
He might have been used by a club.
I think Bobby was very content. He was never bitter towards the game, he was
never bitter towards players making a lot of money than he ever made. I
would imagine if Bobby was still here today on a Sunday he'd be looking
forward to going to a game with myself or someone else and afterwards, we'd
find a little bar and have a glass of chilled white wine. That was Bobby,
really.
How should Bobby's memory be enshrined if West Ham move to the Olympic
stadium?
There's a lovely statue of Bobby at Wembley now and the statue of the World
Cup winners outside the Boleyn pub, but I'd like to see a whopping great big
statue of Bobby Moore as you walk into that Olympic Stadium so that Bobby is
honoured there with a major statue. I'd love to see West Ham put up other
statues of great legends around the whole ground; Billy Bonds, Frank
Lampard, people like this. Trevor Brooking, Phil Parkes, Malcolm Allison,
who played such an important part in Bobby's life. But Bobby should be the
centre piece of it, definitely.
How would you like the world to remember Bobby Moore?
As the greatest English captain of all time. In any sport. The greatest
English captain of all time in any sport.
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Viva Bobby Moore: Hugh Southon
KUMB.com
Filed: Thursday, 21st February 2013
By: Hugh Southon
Hugh Southon knew and worked with Bobby Moore. Here he recalls our legendary
skipper...
Bobby Moore was the best of us!
With his passing 20 years ago today, a light went out which has never been
replaced. He was the one player who defied the well-loved cliché that no man
was bigger than the club... or indeed the country.
Bob was all that was best about this great game and a man who left those
whose lives he touched better people... I am forever grateful I was one of
those.
There are so many memories of Bob the player. The blood pulsed through the
veins just a little faster as he looked imperiously around him among the
blood and thunder of '60s and '70s football.
How a smile would spread across the faces of us Hammers fans as he would
calmly take two or three opponents out of the game with a simple pass. His
ability to dictate the pace of a game; the calm authority he exuded and his
supreme charisma at the heart of the team are irreplaceable and insistent
memories for me and millions who were blessed to live through the amazing
Mooro decades.
Of all the footballing memories he left behind, one has stayed with me for
nearly 50 years. On the afternoon of March 14, 1964, Bob led the Irons into
their first FA Cup Final since 1923.
That semi-final against Manchester United was to provide a defining moment
of Mooro the player! Leading 2-1 against Manchester United on a total
quagmire of a pitch where the pitch markings had all but disappeared into
the mud, the skipper picked up the ball on the touchline in the dying
minutes.
Any other player would have blasted the ball into Row Z but not Bob who
amazingly, despite the conditions, played a perfect ball down the touchline
for Geoff Hurst to pick his way through and blast home a third after Ron
'Ticker' Boyce had scored twice.
Never has Bobby's game better typified. He was an artist and his Upton Park
legacy remains as great and important today as it did ten, twenty years ago.
Nearly 20 years after that great game of football I met him when he became
sports editor of the Sunday Sport – the newspaper launched by our owners
David Sullivan and David Gold.
I became Bob's ghost writer each week and the man's modesty and
self-effacing approach to life was soon to show me that he was an even
greater man than he was a footballer.
Always gracious, I recall during one conversation he decided to say there
wasn't much to captaining England: "After all what do you do, only carry the
ball out!"
He added: "Every player who represents his country should be a captain…you
have reached the peak of your career. It should be expected."
He loved West Ham with a passion... his heart never really left Upton Park
but there was a sadness the fabulous football we played hadn't produced more
trophies.
But 1966 was the compensation of compensations and he again deflected all
personal glory claiming: "It was all about Alf Ramsey. He got the best
players defensively and offensively and produced a system to suit them
rather than asking them to fit his system."
We watched football together – he as the reporter, me as his writer and his
insights into the game were often nothing less than extraordinary. There was
never any side to him – what you saw was what you got. I remember leaving
myself short of cash at one game - Bob's hand was the first into his pocket.
I last saw him in the winter of his life. He was drinking tea from a cracked
cup in the Hawthorns press room where he was reporting for Capital Radio. He
was three months or so from his passing and very ill. But there was no
complaining, whinging, whining – he was a man of total dignity and declared
himself as "doing fine."
What a way to treat a hero. The man who had won the greatest prize this game
has to offer, reporting for a radio station in the west midlands on a
winter's afternoon . Poor… very poor indeed.
A few short months later Bobby was gone, having made one last emotional trip
to Wembley to look over and re-live, no doubt, memories of his greatest
triumph.
Twenty years later we remember him again, although some of us remind
ourselves of the great man every week and wonder what he'd have made of the
game today.
Knowing Bob, it would have been with great kindness and affection for I can
remember him saying: "Don't knock anyone for what they earn – if they have
managed to reach the top they deserve every penny."
Bob's contribution to this great club is immeasurable. He was, I believe,
the greatest player ever to wear the claret and blue of WHUFC and the white
of England.
And on his 20th anniversary I go out where I came in: "Bob you were the best
of us."
* Follow Hugh's regular Hammers updates at
www.sportsdirectnews.com,
@SDN_sportsnews and @hughsouthon on Twitter.
Hugh also appears as a guest in Episode 3 of the KUMB.com Podcast - the
Bobby Moore special.
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There is No Vacancy!
By S J Chandos
West Ham Till I Die
West Ham co-Chairman, David Gold, has publicly responded to the speculation
about Sam Allardyce's future and the possibility of Paolo Di Canio replacing
him at the managerial helm. And that response was pretty emphatic in its
tone and logic. In summary, Gold stated that Di Canio was not a candidate
for the manager's job because there was not currently a vacancy!! He also
went on to reaffim the intention of the board to open discussions with
Allardyce on a new contract, once the season is over and the club's PL
status secured.
The West Ham board really cannot be much clearer in declaring their intent.
No doubt, in some sections of the support, there will be much gnashing of
teeth, stamping of feet and throwing of toys out of prams. However, failing
a dramatic change in the current circumstances, it would seem that we may
all have to reconcile ourselves to another two or three years of the current
management. That is neither pro nor anti-Allardyce, it is just stating a
strong probability, based upon the prevalent factors at play. Not least, Sam
Allardyce's proven track record of keeping sides in the PL season after
season; and the tendency of his former clubs to decline and suffer
relegation in the aftermath of his exit. The board are almost certainly
aware of this and it must be foremost in their thinking on the subject.
It was good to see the club once again publicly supporting Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) equality. The squad have marked LGBT HIstory
Month by supporting the Football Vs Homophobia campaign and have been
pictured wearing the FvH tee-shirts. This follows on from the squad's
support for LGBT rights last season, one of the vey first professional clubs
to do so. This, following on from the tough action taken against the
transgressors at White Hart Lane last November, the publication of the
club's schedule of prioritized equality events in the Man Utd match
programme and the Holocaust Memorial Commemoration at the QPR match,
indicates that things are changing very much for the better down Upton Park
way. Well done to the club and long may it continue. Our club must give
leadership on these issues and be seen to be united, inclusive and
anti-discriminatory. And we appear to be making significant headway in
achieving these objectives.
In a similar vein, it has been reported that the Spurs match programme will
include a warning that tough action will be taken if racist, anti-semitic or
fascist chanting occurs at any point in Monday's match against Spurs. I
think this is partly motivated by the knowledge that an incident would
undermine recent progress on equalities issues, but also by the attack on
Spurs fans by anti-semitic thugs in Lyons. There is no place for the type of
thing at the club and especially not on the 20th anniversary of Bobby
Moore's death. Any such incidents occurring would be an injury to our great
club and an insult to the memory of the great man. So, lets make sure that
it does not happen!
SJ. Chandos.
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Di Canio back at Swindon (shows CCTV footage!)
Italian accused of carrying out a midnight raid
The Sun
By ALEX CROOK
Published: 5 hrs ago
PAOLO DI CANIO was last night accused of carrying out a midnight raid on his
old Swindon office. Just three days after quitting as boss, the Italian was
captured on CCTV sneaking into the Robins' stadium. The League One club
checked the footage after believing they had been BURGLED when club-owned
pictures went missing. Swindon have now changed the codes on the door locks.
A club insider said: "Even by Paolo's standards this was a crazy thing to
do.
"The cameras picked out Paolo and three members of his staff sneaking into
the ground at 12.45am on Thursday. "They took everything from the office,
including the photos from the wall. "The door was protected by a pin code
but Paolo had access from when he was manager. The codes have now been
changed. "If he wanted to come and collect his belongings he should have
asked." The insider claimed the footage also showed ex-assistant Fabricio
Piccareta, former goalkeeping coach Domenico Doardo and an ex-masseur. Di
Canio was unavailable for comment.
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Gold: No Canio do, Paolo
By CARL LONG
Published: 21st February 2013
The Sun
WEST HAM co-owner David Gold has told Paolo Di Canio there is no job for him
at Upton Park. And he insisted they intend to open talks with Sam Allardyce
over a new deal. Di Canio has been strongly linked with the managerial
position at West Ham after he left Swindon this week. The Italian is a cult
hero with Hammers fans and many have been calling for him to become the next
boss. A section of West Ham fans are still unhappy with boss Big Sam's style
of football. But Gold said: "I want to make this clear: there is no
managerial vacancy for Paolo or anyone else at the club. There is no job
available. "I understand he's a hero here but, as we'll hold talks with Sam
at the end of the season, that's where it stands." Swindon's takeover by
local consortium Seebeck 87 Ltd has been completed after receiving clearance
from the Football League.
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