Martinez new Belgium head coach

[davek]

To put that in context, Tintin is also a national hero in Belgium lol

Better a hero than a zero.

He is feted in his adopted country; Moyes is hated everywhere.

 

[COYBL25]

Better a hero than a zero.

He is feted in his adopted country; Moyes is hated everywhere.

 

[degsy]

Coleman, being an Irishman, can play the violin. Howard on the timpani, Baines on the French horn, Jags on the tuba, Holgate on the bassoon, Macca on the clarinet (and constantly breaking his reeds), Hibbert on the triangle, Niasse on a used recorder. Barry would have made a great piano player, he could just nut the keyboard. Mirallas is also in the string section, but never turns up to rehearsal.

Of course, if Martinez conducted an orchestra it would be all treble and no bass. Although it's better than the dirges Allardyce would produce. And the Belgians would lay their instruments down on a bad day. "No, we don't want to play the Hebrides Overture, screw you."

I prefer this version.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

I prefer this version.

I'm glad I'm not the only appreciator of the Bonzos on here.

 

[Armel]

Please tell me he didn't actually dance.

ETA: he is one stylish mofo though.

As you later on noticed he did, but seriously his energy levels must be amazing. The amount of events he goes to is unreal (this weekend he went to 5 different games) and now he's also TD of the FA.

Or as a motivational speaker: "Failing is not trying to win"

 

[davek]

As you later on noticed he did, but seriously his energy levels must be amazing. The amount of events he goes to is unreal (this weekend he went to 5 different games) and now he's also TD of the FA.

Or as a motivational speaker: "Failing is not trying to win"

"Success is in everyone's head. The brain of each individual can allow you to do things that nobody could expect"

 

[Black Belt Jones]

"Success is in everyone's head. The brain of each individual can allow you to do things that nobody could expect"

In other words, it's all hopelessly relative in Bobby's world. Success is indeed in your head

Be sickening if this fraud tries to geg in on the Merckx celebrations later this year.

 

[davek]

In other words, it's all hopelessly relative in Bobby's world. Success is indeed in your head

Be sickening if this fraud tries to geg in on the Merckx celebrations later this year.

He's a winner. He knows he can set teams up to win and has the proof. The players have to be good enough and have enough belief. At Everton they just couldn't handle that.

 

[deipnosophist]

I still believe Bobby would have got us Champions league if Capt Jags and Bainesy hadn't nobbled him. He had us in such a good (phenomenal) moment of our football and, in Tom Cleverley, we had the best English player of his generation.

 

[davek]

I still believe Bobby would have got us Champions league if Capt Jags and Bainesy hadn't nobbled him. He had us in such a good (phenomenal) moment of our football and, in Tom Cleverley, we had the best English player of his generation.

No he couldn't. He wasnt able to repeat his first season miracle getting a game of on the deck football out of Moyes' hoof merchants.

The material has to be there to sustain performance talent as well as the will to win.

Our players - aside form one or two - were just pony.

 

[deipnosophist]

No he couldn't. He wasnt able to repeat his first season miracle getting a game of on the deck football out of Moyes' hoof merchants.

The material has to be there to sustain performance talent as well as the will to win.

Our players - aside form one or two - were just pony.

yes, I know that mate...I was just attempting to raise a smile

 

[goodisonopheliac]

"Success is in everyone's head. The brain of each individual can allow you to do things that nobody could expect"

"I should have got a hat trick against the RS. Hold me, Leighton."

 

[BigMick]

Big thanks to @Armel for sharing these wonderful videos of 'our Bobby'. Makes me realise how much I miss his press conferences and interviews after another catastrophic defeat.

His voice and has the same hypnotic effect as those 1960s Indian Transcendental Medititation gurus: Maharishi Martinez.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

I think Martinez can consider himself fortunate that Moyes was his predecessor.Because say if it was Martinez, that took over from Walter Smith in March 2002, then he would have took us down imo.He was a lucky general in many aspects, before the rot set in.From reading the book Faith Of Our Fathers, an oral history of Everton, the consensus from the players who were interviewed, was that Martinez was too nice.He wouldn't really give out to the players, after a dismal defeat he would say you played great in the dressing room afterwards.

He seemed to be in his own world, he couldn't accept the reality of the situation, he couldn't just say what needed to be said, when it needed to be said.The endless and pointless positivity alienated the players in the end.I think Martinez's downfall at Everton was that he was too stubborn with the tactics and gameplan, and that he lacked leadership.He didn't have that inner drive, that bit of nastiness i suppose, to confront the players, and tell them that things were not good enough, when it was all going wrong.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

I met a woman who works at Finch Farm and she said the same thing. Bob was too nice, and the players got 'grass is greener' syndrome when Klopp showed up.