This has angered many left-wingers, who resent Mr Di Pietro both as a man of the right and as someone fighting allegations of wrongdoing.

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Di Canio is not a man who has a history of peace -- as a player he was banned for 11 matches for pushing over a referee while at English club Sheffield Wednesday in 1998.

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Pietersen survived the hat-trick ball but edged just beyond Di Venuto off Neil Killeen before inevitably falling to that man Gibson, who pinned him in front of off-stump with one he angled in.

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And the respondent, wishing to convey that the individual was less than well, requiring the help of God or man, might reply: 'O yi di.

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"I feel that I should not have to continually justify myself to people who do not understand this, however I will say one thing only -- I am not the man that some people like to portray, " Di Canio said in a statement on Sunderland's website on Wednesday.

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Milan police said Berlusconi's attacker hit him with a small metal souvenir replica of the Doumo di Milano, the city's central cathedral, but it was not immediately clear whether the man swung at the prime minister with the object in his hand or threw it at him.

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