Overview
- During Sky Sports Italia’s Champions League show Wednesday, Paolo Di Canio slammed his head on the studio desk three times and began bleeding as Fabio Capello handed him a tissue.
- The outburst followed a question from host Federica Masolin about when Italian football would reach the Premier League’s level.
- Di Canio stood up clutching a tissue, then returned to his seat and continued the broadcast with no serious injury reported.
- Footage raced across social media overnight, with viewers sharing shock and jokes that pushed the studio moment into global circulation.
- Reports set the scene against Di Canio’s history of flashpoints, recalling his 1998 shove on referee Paul Alcock and later controversies over political symbols.