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‘I needed one other Italian at Sheffield Wednesday in order that Carbone had a good friend. We went to signal Di Canio from Celtic and he didn’t flip up, the bastard!’: Ex-Sheffield Wednesday supervisor remembers switch concern with controversial ahead

Sheffield Wednesday supervisor David Pleat remembers a problem with signing Paolo Di Canio in 1997, with the Italian failing to attend a gathering to finalise particulars concerning the switch.

Pleat already had Benito Carbone with him at Hillsborough when an concept hit him: signal one other Italian to make his star participant really feel settled in Yorkshire.

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