meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Transfer Talk

Paolo Di Canio special: Turning down Sir Alex twice, regret over ref push & West Ham exit anger

Transfer Talk

Sky Sports

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.5886 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Paolo Di Canio sits down with Dharmesh Sheth to reveal all on his career, starting with his early beginnings in Italy and time with Lazio, Juventus and AC Milan. The former striker explains how he fulfilled a dream by signing for Celtic and why his time in Scotland lasted only one season. Di Canio discusses the infamous push on referee Paul Alcock, his brief exile from English football and decision to return to sign for West Ham. He opens up about his famous scissor-kick goal of the season against Wimbledon and why he twice turned down the advances of Manchester United, which included a call from Sir Alex Ferguson on Christmas Day. Di Canio reveals his anger at leaving West Ham and what he was prepared to do to stay at the club.

Transfer Talk is a Sky Sports podcast. Listen to every episode here: skysports.com/transfer-talk

You can listen to Transfer Talk on your smart speaker by saying "ask Global Player to play Transfer Talk".

For all the latest football news, head to skysports.com/football

For advertising opportunities email: skysportspodcasts@sky.uk

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to Transfer Talk, brought to you by Bet 365, where every nail biting Neil-Neil, every bizarre

0:06.8

VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap in, false start, dead heat,

0:13.2

and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.

0:16.7

From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsports.

0:20.0

Whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365

0:36.7

Hello that This is another edition of the Transfer Talk podcast and we are in Milan so welcome along and welcome along to you

0:40.8

Mr. Paolo de Canio.

0:43.0

Hi, how are you?

0:44.2

I'm very, very well.

0:45.3

We are in Milan, but I'm from wrong.

0:46.9

Okay, we'll come to that.

0:48.3

I'm predicting this is going to be a very, very interesting chat, Paolo.

0:51.4

So feel free to reveal all that happened in your career.

0:54.8

Let's go from the beginning though, and I read an article that when you were a kid,

0:59.4

you weren't, shall we say an athlete back then? Absolutely not.

1:03.0

Obviously I was a little bit fat.

1:05.0

They used to call me a typical Roman said,

1:09.0

Paloka, it means a little ball because I was really fat.

1:16.6

I don't know how it happened and after two, three years

1:20.9

I growing up in a different way.

1:22.3

I had, you know, I transformed in some way my body. I started

1:27.1

and play my passion. So play football everywhere in the street at the beginning obviously. You mentioned Rome. Now where you lived it was a

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sky Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sky Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.