Your mate is in denial (or possibly partially sighted?). The guy (Martinez, rather than your mate) is an absolutely horrific, snide, weapon.
And I disagree with the other poster above who declares that 'if he were ours, we'd love him'. I for one wouldn't - he's a total prick.
There was an offside late last night - right in the NW corner - where J.Pedro came back from a clearly offside position to challenge the defender as he was clearing it. When the ref blew, there were people all around us going MENTAL. Proper raging - spitting their words, veins bulging...
I don't mind it, but wish our fans were a bit more rational about when to unleash it (or knew the rules).
Its a bit tinpot when our crowd are bellowing that in response to a correctly-awarded decision.
They never did email any instructions, but via the chat on the ticket site, for anyone else chosen for collection:
Tickets are to be collected from 12:00 at window 6 in the matchday ticket office, located to the left of the main reception. Only a limited number of ticket holders have been...
I'll pick the young lad next to me, please.
Seems a perfectly nice kid and everything, he's just a bit HEFTY and ENCROACHES a bit on my space.
(I don't actually want to clear him out - just swap him for a smaller version).
I voted 'It was me' because I'm childish. It wasn't - but TBH I am getting quite bored of the bloke.
He could be a great coach, but he's swallowed all the hype, and definitely isn't quite as good as he thinks he is. If he was he'd be able to modify his tactics to better suit the available...
I think they do a quick mental assessment, and if the attack looks likely to come to something, they'll let it play out, in case it ends in a goal. If it is not immediately threatening they will flag it at the time.
Given that we don't ever look like scoring ATM, they were probably right to...
I basically agree, but might frame it differently.
As soon as we saw Steele was given the nod, it was obvious that RDZ was planning to go BIG on the rondos in our own box to draw them on. I wasn't expecting him to go QUITE so big.
It was almost as though getting a patronising pat on the head...