I reject that position that Martinez has no excuses to not win the FA Cup now. How entitled can you be - and in a season when just about any team can beat just about any other. It's an arrogance that'll haunt us if we succumbed to it. Also, it's as if Martinez has none of the burden of history to secure a trophy that all his other predecessors were able to get away with carrying and failing with.
Can he manage us to a cup win? Yes. Should it be expected? No.
Nothing but the best is good enough, unless ofc your martinez in which case 60 points, oh wait 55 points, oh wait errrrm what points total it has been revised down to this week Dave?
And can't be expected to win a cup when the the teams likely to be left in are us, Palace, Watford and West Ham, yeah that's the spirit Dave, we can't expect little old Everton to possibly win 2 games in a row aginst those calibre of teams can we?
All his other predecessors? Why not be honest mate, you mean Moyes, because of his predecessors who failed to secure a trophy since Kendall mark 1 we have
Harvey - sacked after less than 3 years in charge
Kendall mark 2 - sacked after 3 years
Walker - sacked after less than a year
Royle - 3 years but won the fa cup
Kendall mark 3 - 1 year
Smith - sacked in his 4th season
How exactly where any of them getting away with not winning anything - and not even counting the fact the club was in a far worse state in every way off the field in those managers reigns
But thats all by the by, the bold bit says everything about your stance with martinez mate, not willing to set him any target that he should achieve and even the low targets you do - you often move the golaposts to make it easier, the players go into the semi hoping to win then they will have already lost the game, lets hope Martinez has more balls than you do and tells them he expects them to win the game
