Fans not yet buying into Martinez style
Now he simply has to win over the 40,000 Goodison regulars who greeted his first home game in charge of their club with a mixture of enthusiasm, scepticism and, ultimately, impatience.
The slick, patient passing game that was Martinez’s trademark in his remarkable reign at Wigan is effective and pleasing on the eye at times but this is a Goodison clientele more discerning, perhaps, than the one the manager left behind a few miles across Lancashire.
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