Paolo, giving the captain's verdict on the defeat at Ewood Park, also says:
* The defeat was the worst moment of his entire career.
* Certain people would like to see West Ham go down.
* Tomas Repka, despite being sent off, was the only West Ham player to emerge with any credit.
* He is behind Glenn Roeder all the way.
* He feels sorry for the supporters who travelled to the game - and understood them walking out.
* He played badly himself.
"You don't have words when you lose 7-1 in this way and it should have been 13 or 14," he admits.
"You can only blame yourself and you have to look at your face in the mirror and ask if you are a true professional, a true footballer, or the opposite.
"I'm disappointed but I know some players here don't commit 100% and I have fought for this.
"I am very very angry and what happened at Blackburn is what I predicted a few months ago.
"Now the manager has agreed with me and I am happy for this because when I said something everyone thought I was the crazy man.
"But now we have the time to change; we are at the beginning of the season but if we carry on this way we will have a big, big problem.
"But the manager is intelligent and I think he will now be tougher with the players and we will change the season.
"Before now he realised this is true and I hope he will sign two or three Premiership players.
"It is not just my opinion but the opinion of everybody that our performance at Blackburn showed we don't have 16 Premiership players.
"Now is the time to give space to the true man and the true footballer.
"I don't want to blame my team mates but there are some players who didn't show their quality and committed 70%, not 100%.
"This is not possible in the Premiership, especially at a glorious team like West Ham.
"I am looking to the future now and hope we can change our season starting from Saturday, because if we don't beat Southampton we will be in trouble.
"Even if we beat Southampton that doesn't mean we can relax and think the problem is sorted.
"We have to commit 100% the following day as well because only in this way can you get more than a few good results to get out from our s**t position.
"Now is the time to give space to the Premiership player with big responsibility on their shoulders, and not play, lose, and think 'ah, I have still got a contract'.
"This is not fair for the manager firstly, and secondly for the supporters - the manager is not at fault for what happened at Blackburn.
"You could go without a manager to Blackburn, with the players we have, try to do our own system in the way we play, and we shouldn't lose 7-1 anyway.
"So to do so with a manager - this is not possible; they humiliated us, and it wasn't Real Madrid, or two Real Madrids against one West Ham.
"It is disgusting, even if you play against 24 players you can't lose 7-1.
"This is the saddest moment in my football career, because I have never seen West Ham supporters leave the ground 20 minutes before the end of the game - and they were absolutely right.
"This is a bad signal and we have to be careful if we have pride in our hearts.
"To be honest - and I don't like saying this - after the game I thought it would be better to play without fans on Saturday at Upton Park to show the players how difficult it is to play without supporters behind you.
"It would give us a lesson so we think 'if they don't follow us, who will give us the strength?'
"I don't want this and I hope they come because they are our twelfth player on the pitch, and they are crucial for us.
"When someone at the BBC studio says 'oh, there's Di Canio speaking about his team mates' I am making facts.
"I have played for 16 years at the top level and I run for 90 minutes; some players who haven't shown their quality yet play for 20 minutes or 30 minutes.
"They show it when we have conceded a goal perhaps, so either they are not ready for the Premiership or they don't have strong characters.
"In both cases we are very sad, we are down, and we have to change.
"There can't be any complaints about strong words because if we don't accept criticism after a 7-1 and a 5-0, we show that we are kids.
"Only if we realise how s**t we were can we improve; if we don't it is better some players stay out and don't play with a West Ham shirt.
"I commit 150% from tomorrow for Glenn; it is not fair for him that players played that way.
"He prepared us in a good way, but the problem is the commitment, the aggression.
"Sometimes it is better not to speak in the dressing room but 'make facts'; it is no good to be shouting 'come on' and then not going for a 50/50.
"I have to accept the criticism as well because I played s**t and have to do more.
"There are players who must give much more and not think about a three year contract covering them and thinking maybe the manager will be sacked - this is not fair.
"I never give up; I try to run, but of course it was difficult because when you see every ball in our half of the pitch possibly leading to a goal you think it is not possible.
"It is not luck - every time at this club I hear 'unlucky' but it is not about luck.
"After three years in a row, let alone three games, it is not luck any more.
"We realise that something is wrong in our brain or in our quality and we still have time to change this.
"Only if we work every day in training can we do it, and not miss training - especially now we have to give much more in training.
"It is beautiful, this life with a big car going to Chadwell Heath for two hours, enjoying training and having a shower and playing on a Saturday.
"You build your own destiny, and I am very angry with myself and with others.
"Three weeks ago they were saying on Sky and the BBC that I don't like playing in the north, it is absolutely s**t and they know they are stupid.
"I scored at Manchester United away, I scored at Ipswich away, I scored at Leicester away, I scored at Arsenal away...
"It is an insult to West Ham; they do this because they want the worst thing for West Ham, they want to put the supporters against the leader, or do that to the players because they want to see West Ham relegated.
"But they are wrong because we will never go down - we have too much class, but we have to work hard to show it.
"All these people, ex-West Ham players or ex-average footballers who are jealous about our leadership at West Ham, I will tell them it doesn't work what they are saying because we are strong, we are going to win, and we are going to get out of this position.
"But only if we realise we have to work hard and do it on the pitch.
"Once again the supporters were humiliated by Blackburn supporters, and to lose 7-1 with our history - it is not possible.
"I know Glenn will change something and I am happy with that.
"He knows he has to be tough and he has the time to be; it is only seven games and we have two extra games, so we can turn the corner.
"But after those two games we have to carry on in a positive way and we have to change the mentality, work hard in training with passion and commitment.
"You can't put only passion in the game, you have to do it in training as well, you have to do it from the moment you get up in the morning.
"We have a big privilege to play football, but I haven't seen that people feel this privilege of playing in the Premiership and becoming the hero of thousands of people.
"If they don't accept it they will never become good players, they will stay one or two years at West Ham and then be at West Bromwich.
"We said good things at half time but the problem was it didn't work, and I don't know why.
"We have a strange situation and I think we need two or three more players - that is my opinion.
"Maybe people will say I have to shut my mouth and play better and work hard.
"But even if I had scored three goals we would still have lost, so I would have had to score six and eight goals for a win in the last two games, or seven and five for a draw.
"If I did this I would become the best player ever in history and the future of the world.
"You can't concede seven, five, two, easy goals; if you do this you will lose 99 out of 100 games.
"Repka was the only good player on the pitch for us; unfortunately the referee made an easy decision - he didn't touch Grabbi.
"The ref was happy to send him off and Tomas expected this moment, and was very upset and angry.
"Repka still made the job of three players, just himself, but unfortunately he was off and the game was finished."