Roberto Martinez

Martinez is majorly peachy. Any Spaniard who jacks in a life in his sun-soaked native country to not only play, but to then waste more of his life as a manager under Wigan's slate grey skies should be awarded an KCMG post-haste!

My wife, who is interested in football but does not necessarily know all the personalities, came in from the kitchen yesterday evening after the interview on MOTD and commented on what a nice and genuine bloke that Wigan manager was, what was his name again?

We also met, in the Marriott Hotel in Durham on feb 17th (my daughter's birthday, so i remember it) Martin O'Neill, because Sunderland were staying there before their beating of Arsenal in the Cup the next day. Another genuine, nice, honest, modest unassuming sort of bloke. I had always had a great respect for him. That confirmed it.

I'd swap all day long, unbelievable manager