ChalkwellShrimper
First XI
Clarke's only been at the club a week and a bit, hilarious...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14726229.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14726229.stm
Not quite sure how the chairman can call it "a bit of a non event", Clarke showed no respect for his manager and to be honest he's lucky he isn't left in the reserves.
He's knackered, he's injured and he has cramp. Like John Barnes, all he wants is an Isotonic Lucozade Sport. Yet before he's even off the pitch the little Hitler fitness coach tells him he's going to have to do more running in the morning.
Obviously he's got a questionable attitude, as we saw here, but it's poor man-management, for me.
I'm pretty much on Clarke's side in this, and you can rest assured that if this is a sign that he's had enough of Di Canio after ten days then other players probably feel the same. By all accounts Clarke was struggling with cramp and injury for the last ten minutes last night and then at the final whistle before he'd even got off of the pitch their fitness coach tells him he's got extra running in training the next day. Then his manager comes over and tries to manhandle him into the tunnel.
Fair play, he'd have known that the Swindon players are having to train seven days a week when he signed, but it's a pretty easy way to lose the dressing room once things start not going well, which is obviously the case there after five straight defeats.
I must admit I didn't know the full story behind it, however if the fitness coach tells you that you need extra running the next day, he's probably right. Obviously Di Canio didn't react the right way either but Clarke should have bit the bullet until he got into the changing room at least. If I was the chairman I'd have words with Di Canio too, things like that should never happen in view of the fans on the pitch, turns the club into a joke.
Being sent out on loan according to their chairman, wonder who'll be interested in taking him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14739786.stm
Supposedly Di Canio & his coaching team were threatening to kill him when they got him in the changing room. Can't say I blame him for refusing to go in.
I know we have previous with Clarke, but I can't see why people are blaming Leon for this, Di Canio is a disaster waiting to happen at Swindon, he's already fallen out with Timlin after the first game of the season and refused to play him since, now Clarke.
Any side in lg2 (and plenty in lg1) would benefit from Clarke's ability regardless of what we think of his attitude, with our striking crisis I'd happily have him back at Roots Hall but the emergency window doesn't open for 7 days.
Supposedly Di Canio & his coaching team were threatening to kill him when they got him in the changing room. Can't say I blame him for refusing to go in.
I know we have previous with Clarke, but I can't see why people are blaming Leon for this, Di Canio is a disaster waiting to happen at Swindon, he's already fallen out with Timlin after the first game of the season and refused to play him since, now Clarke.
Any side in lg2 (and plenty in lg1) would benefit from Clarke's ability regardless of what we think of his attitude, with our striking crisis I'd happily have him back at Roots Hall but the emergency window doesn't open for 7 days.