Martinez is clearly a well liked and much respected man, however there can be no doubt that he has been exposed as a coach at the top level.
Playing pretty passing football, and getting the plaudits for it, is entirely different to producing successful football teams.
ALL successfull teams are built on a strong defence, and you move on from that point. He hasn't seemed to learnt that lesson at either Wigan or Everton.
I remember hearing Ian Wright talking about his time at Arsenal with George Graham, and how we would get totally fed up with the continual work on defence that they did - so much so that he hated going into training.
However he looks back now, and realises that that is why he won most of the medals that he did.
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Playing pretty passing football, and getting the plaudits for it, is entirely different to producing successful football teams.
ALL successfull teams are built on a strong defence, and you move on from that point. He hasn't seemed to learnt that lesson at either Wigan or Everton.
I remember hearing Ian Wright talking about his time at Arsenal with George Graham, and how we would get totally fed up with the continual work on defence that they did - so much so that he hated going into training.
However he looks back now, and realises that that is why he won most of the medals that he did.