English Premier League 2012/2013 - Real World Football - FM24

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28 Mar 2013 23:14:41

He's not behaved like Dalglish did during the Suarez racism scandal but Martinez's behaviour has been absurd to the point of disrespectful. Surely an apology is at least the basic we can get.

Telegram Sam

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29 Mar 2013 00:20:36

Look at Dalglish et al. wearing the Suarez shirts last season for an example of how far a manager will go to publicly defend one of his players.

Pippadoc

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29 Mar 2013 00:50:49

In some ways I think it's his intention to make himself the focal point, the bad guy, of the drama, to deflect the attention from a player he maybe thinks would struggle with a lot of media criticism coming his way.

Mourinho and Ferguson are similar examples of managers making them the focus of media scrutiny (although usually in less contentious situations) to shield the players from the media. Not that I'm saying Martinez is on par with those two as a manager. It just seems like this long after the whole thing he would alter his stance somewhat, if he was concerned with his own image, given there's been a lot made of how poorly he and Wigan have dealt with the situation and generally I think he comes across as a fairly intelligent man.

Telegram Sam

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29 Mar 2013 01:12:23

By Pippadoc | Permalink | On 29 March 2013 - 00:50 AM

In some ways I think it's his intention to make himself the focal point, the bad guy, of the drama, to deflect the attention from a player he maybe thinks would struggle with a lot of media criticism coming his way.

Mourinho and Ferguson are similar examples of managers making them the focus of media scrutiny (although usually in less contentious situations) to shield the players from the media. Not that I'm saying Martinez is on par with those two as a manager. It just seems like this long after the whole thing he would alter his stance somewhat, if he was concerned with his own image, given there's been a lot made of how poorly he and Wigan have dealt with the situation and generally I think he comes across as a fairly intelligent man.

Mmm, that's a good point. Martinez is a clever guy and I wouldn't be surprised if he was doing his bit to deflect attention away from McManaman and onto himself. He won't give two shits what the public make of his comments if it takes the heat off of his young player.

K3V0

16 years ago

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29 Mar 2013 01:27:20

He's not going to turn on his own player, especially when you consider their squad isn't that big.

Poe

17 years ago

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29 Mar 2013 02:51:23

You don't have to turn on the player, just say the tackle was unacceptable and move on.

I'm sure McManaman knows himself what he done was incredibly stupid and ridiculous - so much so he delibrately handballed the ball out of play 30 seconds later so Haidara could get treatment.

SpinSwimScream

14 years ago

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29 Mar 2013 11:05:55

Haven't even apologised yet have they? Well McManaman anyway

Shola

16 years ago

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29 Mar 2013 16:26:38

PS: As of Thursday - eleven days after the incident - Alan Pardew confirmed that nothing in the form of an apology had been forthcoming from either Wigan, their manager or their player.

Martinez has done the exact same as Dalglish did, backed the player 100%, not apologised and claimed to be the victim. Well apart from the t-shirts.

bluemoon.

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29 Mar 2013 16:42:12

Massive difference between what Martinez and Dalglish.

Sam

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29 Mar 2013 16:53:14

By bluemoon. | Permalink | On 29 March 2013 - 16:42 PM

Massive difference between what Martinez and Dalglish.

This.

Martinez's comments about McManaman being the victim were silly, but he's nowhere near the idiocy of Dalglish.

Although an apology from the club or McManaman I think would have been nice.

Vercoe

11 years ago

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29 Mar 2013 19:11:48

Would've been expected too tbh, that's the worst part.

Obtuse

15 years ago

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30 Mar 2013 02:42:29

The Suarez incident should have seen Liverpool banned from football (Kick Racism from Football). A tackle is far different

Ninja

14 years ago

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30 Mar 2013 12:24:01

Nani back on the bench today, aww yis. Hopefully Valencia converts his international promise into a performance that isn't so bad I want to rip out my scrotum in anger.

hammer9

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30 Mar 2013 12:28:16

We want 3 points!

JCash3000

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30 Mar 2013 12:57:05

By hammer9 | Permalink | On 30 March 2013 - 12:28 PM

We want 3 points!

So do we

Sam

17 years ago

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30 Mar 2013 13:32:51

Quite an average performance, but we're winning and that's all that matters. Another goal would be nice.

Ashley Young continues to be incredibly poor.

BR.

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30 Mar 2013 13:42:27

Sunderland look pretty devoid of ideas - their best hope is to probably keep it at 1-0 and nick a goal off a set-piece.

As soon as United get their second, it's game over.