Di Canio's rebuilt Sunderland looms as biggest Prem unknown
Posted by Iain Macintosh  Paolo Di Canio was mad as hell and he
wasn't going to take it anymore. At the end of last season,
Sunderland put in a rugged performance at White Hart Lane and
lost only to a late Gareth Bale wondergoal, but it still wasn't
good enough. Di Canio walked into his news conference and
erupted, melting the paint off the walls and leaving 20 minutes
of glorious rage on the Dictaphone of every reporter present. He
was fed up of players skipping training, he was fed up with
handing out fines, he was fed up with the laziness and the
abdication of personal responsibility. But most of all, he was
fed up with Phil Bardsley.  -- Danny Graham's chance to end
ordeal -- Are Americans like Altidore undervalued?  It was
Bardsley who came to epitomise what Di Canio perceived to be the
malaise at Sunderland. Pictures of the 28-year-old defender,
flat on his back in a casino, covered in bank notes, signaled
the end of the ex-Manchester United d