Like many others I've slept on it and found myself just as annoyed this morning.
I wanted him gone around this time last season, but convinced myself that he deserved time to turn it around. Well, 12 months on and very little has changed.
Putting aside his dire record and our astonishing underachievement, two things that make me utterly despair are his stubbornness and the complete and utter bollocks he talks in the media. Remember Moyes? Remember how stubborn we thought he was? Martinez makes Moyes look like the ultimate pragmatist in comparison. If something wasn't working under Moyes, more often than not he'd change it (sometimes not as quickly as we'd like, granted). But ask yourselves, would we have gone 18 months under Moyes letting in goals right, left and centre? Not a chance. We'd tighten up for a few weeks and get a few scrappy results, and then we'd be okay. Martinez doesn't even seem to think defending is a legitimate part of the game, his complete ambivalence is infuriating.
Then we get on to his media appearances - listening to them every week, you can only surmise that he's either 1) A WUM or 2) Utterly deluded. If we're playing terribly (which we patently are), I want our manager to acknowledge that, but when asked he comes out with the biggest load of toss you could possibly imagine. He almost seems unmoved by our results, as if passing the ball around the back 4 and keeping 60% possession is somehow more important and worthy of praise.
I've no doubt he's a wonderful man and a brilliant ambassador for our club, but the sad truth is he doesn't have what it takes to be a manager at this level. And despite my praise for Moyes, I don't want him back, we can do better, but is he a better manager than Martinez? It's increasingly hard to say no.
