Join the dots - what dots??

It's depressing to have to say - here we go again.  Sunderland have appointed Paulo Di Canio as their new manager - presumably on the basis of his footballing credentials.  We can argue about whether or not his credentials warrant the confidence the club have put in him, but what is it that the media want to talk about?  His politics!  The fact that several years ago he described himself as a Fascist.  So what's the connection?  Unless he intends to have the team goose-step onto the pitch to the strains of the Horst Wessel-Lied, there just isn't one.  Get a life, folks!