According to the Italian FA, this photograph of Paulo Di Canio from yesterday’s Rome derby shows him making a fascist salute – something very, very bad under Italian law. Oops.
Mind you… to me it just looks like a footballer raising his hand after scoring. Or maybe Alan Shearer is also a fascist. After all, that’s the exact celebration you get from Newcastle’s number 9 after every goal. Ever get the feeling the Italians are about as overly-sensitive about trying to rewrite (or erase) the history books as the Germans are about swastikas?
Photo by Associated Press and nabbed from the related BBC News page.
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Alan Shearer points his fore-finger in the air, and also waves his arm a bit.
Ooh, I almost sounded like I knew what I was talking about there!
Stuffed by the media — outing a self-confessed Nazi. (This is news?) Pictures can tell you anything, even if it didn’t happen.
This could be quite good fun — footie people as political figures. Ferguson could be Joseph Goebbels for his propaganda according to Jose last night.
Alan Shearer as Watt Tyler? Or I see Bobby Robson as Mao Tse Tung — delivers the revolution that then gets stuck in time.
Jol as William of Orange usurping an English throne, Sven the Canute waving at the waves, even Biblical with Brian Robson, the Prodigal Son, or Harry’s Cain to Strachan’s Abel.
Haven’t thought this through, but there’s potential here!
Tottaly agree Mosh,
Stuffed by the media, in this case the Italian media who are so red-hot at uncoveriing rge pro-nazis (ha-ha) so much so they go tight out and elect them!