Sports Blog Nation's Soccer and Chelsea blogs Graham MacAree joined us again to look ahead to Sunday's clash at Stamford Bridge and to chat all things Chelsea, Rafa, Di Canio and more

The Roker Report Tipster Team cast their eye over Sunderland's trip to Stamford Bridge and the rest of the football action this weekend

With Di Canio being given the title of 'Head Coach' rather than 'Manager', it looks likely the club will bring in a Director of Football. This would be a wise move, and will allow Sunderland to come up with the kind of long-term strategy they wouldn'

Paolo Di Canio is here and his so-called beliefs are dominating the debate. But don't kid yourself that politics or morality are driving it...

In search of more information on what Paolo Di Canio is like we got some excellent views from top Swindon site The Washbag on his tactics, his transfers and much, much more...

Many people have been very quick to jump on Sunderland's appointment of Paolo Di Canio. I myself was very, very skeptical given his outspoken nature but digging a little deeper into things there's room to create an argument that he isn't a monster.

On Saturday night Sunderland made the shock announcement that they had parted company with manager Martin O'Neill before moving swiftly to replace him with Paolo Di Canio.

In among all the excitement of yesterday we forgot to bring you our latest Durham Times article. Here it is, considerably more dated than usual. That's your fault though, you could have bought the paper and read it on Friday.

Usually in this feature, we look back upon the weekend's game, analyze the manager's comments and pick out some talking points. This week that seems somewhat redundant, so let's look back upon his reign - and specifically its demise - instead.

Martin O'Neill's gone and it looks as though Paolo Di Canio will be installed as Sunderland manager pretty soon. Still though, we're going to lollop out who we would have wanted. For those that know me, Di Canio is far, far from the top of this list.