PAOLO Di Canio will offer wine lover Harry Redknapp a glass of something red after tomorrow’s clash – but only so it leaves a “bitter taste” in his mouth.

Redknapp signed controversial Di Canio when boss of West Ham in 1999 after the Italian had received an 11-game ban for pushing referee Paul Alcock while playing for Sheffield Wednesday.

The pair struck up a unlikely friendship and will be reunited when Di Canio’s Swindon lock horns with Cherries at the County Ground tomorrow.

Redknapp is fully expected to be in attendance in Wiltshire after taking up an advisory position at Goldsands Stadium two weeks ago, with Di Canio insisting he is out to get one over his former boss.

Di Canio said: “I haven’t had the chance to speak to Harry and, to be honest, I don’t want to before the game because he is an old fox.

“Maybe he will say ‘Paolo, we have changed three or four players’ and maybe it won’t be true! I won’t fall in that trap!

“We will have an old reunion if he comes to the game and then I will offer him a good red wine which we will enjoy – but after we have got three points.

“He likes the good life and he appreciates Italian wines and French wines but at the end I will offer it to him only so he can have a bitter taste after he loses the game.”

Cherries notched their first win of the campaign at Yeovil – 24 hours after Redknapp’s arrival.

But Paul Groves’s men have since been held to two consecutive home draws, against Hartlepool and Brentford.

Di Canio told the Swindon Advertiser: “It’s obvious that Redknapp can help.

“The manager is the most important man because he has got the players in front of him every day and he knows the players better.

“But, for Redknapp, with his experience, it would have taken an instant or maybe two training sessions for him to know the character of the players and, perhaps, give some advice to the manager.

“He is an extra help for the manager and an extra help for Bournemouth.”