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Forget the politics and remember Di Canio's football failings

Earlier this season I accused Sunderland of being boring. I think they’ve addressed that issue.

Paolo Di Canio’s politics have been exposed, the denials and unwillingness to answer questions on it have been appalling, so time now to focus on the football.

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One thing shouldn’t go unnoticed – Di Canio as a manager has a track record of failing to deliver in big games. For example, Swindon needed a win at Gillingham to secure promotion back in April last year and they lost 3-1. Crawley and Torquay dropped points that day however, so Swindon were promoted despite defeat.

The previous month Di Canio took Swindon to Wembley for the JP Trophy final. Opponents Chesterfield were on their way to relegation from League One and went into the final in the middle of a run of 7 league games without a win. Chesterfield won 2-0.

The two biggest games of his managerial career and Swindon lost them both. Could be interesting if Sunderland need a win at Spurs on the last day of the season.

Bale better than Ronaldo? Not until he leaves Spurs

What’s French for heads gone? Listening to David Ginola on the Breakfast Show with Alan earlier this week, sa tete a vraiment disparu.

It may have been a Tottenham allegiance coming through but he said Gareth Bale is better than Ronaldo. He cannot possibly back that up.

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I was at Swansea and Gareth Bale was outstanding, there are people who quote a pass completion rate of 24 per cent and say his all round game isn’t so good. They’re wrong, he’s brilliant.

We will only know if he’s got it in him to be as good as Ronaldo if he goes to a huge club with massive expectation and delivers the kind of impact Ronaldo has delivered at Madrid.

Then and only then will we know. Being a star at Spurs whose definition of success is finishing fourth is not a club where his true talents can be judged.

West Brom face a big test

Fantastic to see Steve Clarke and his coaching staff playing wheelchair football with the West Brom powerchair team. Clarke and his team were hopeless at it, and he described it as a: “real eye-opener.”

I've got to say I was hopelessly wrong about Albion. I predicted relegation yet they haven’t been out of the top 10 all season. You can only respect what Steve Clarke has done in his first managerial post.

The big test comes now with Dan Ashworth gone, and the likelihood that Odemwingie and Lukaku won’t be at the club next season.

I hope Posh are pony

All the way from Hertfordshire to Middlesbrough for a goalless draw, getting home at around 3am, wouldn’t appeal to a lot, but for me the point was so valuable as Posh battle for safety. Of course people took the mickey, but I loved it.

You may have heard my pledge earlier this week on the show – if Posh stay up, I will be proved wrong, and as a forfeit I will grow a ponytail for the whole of the summer. A ginger ponytail.

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Come on you Blue Gods!!

Earth calling Leicester

What on earth is Nigel Pearson doing at Leicester? From looking good for automatic, it now looks like they won’t even get a play off place.

And some loan window business last week left me perplexed. Pearson let experienced international defender Sean St Ledger go to Millwall, then recalled young defender Liam Moore from Brentford.

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Meantime, Leicester keep dropping points. For Fox sake Pearson, what’s going on?

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