Is Martinez still the man for the job?

Fair points, Jimmy.

I am very pro-Martinez and pro the way he clearly wants to play. However, he doesn’t help himself sometimes, case in point being bringing on Gomez (who I am also a fan of but he who is really testing my loyalty at the moment!) in the position he did.

I actually disagree with you slightly in that I think he could have put Melchiot on that right side last night, given the game situation at the time. It was crying out for a bit of a physical presence and experience but with the best will in the world, Gomez is not going to offer that.

On Gomez and the accusations of his crab-like passing, I was interested to observe wild and hysterical booing and jeering when at one point, having been given the ball in a very tight suitiation with no-one showing for him in an advanced position, he played the ball back to Bramble to retain posession. Two minutes later, Scharner did exactly the same thing, even though there were forward options open, yet he was roundly applauded.

Now I know that Gomez has a tendancy to do this quite frequently and maybe Scharner isn’t guilty of it as often, but there seems to be a trend for people to be constantly watching and picking out every single perceived error made by Scotland and Gomez and ignoring some of those made by other players.

This particularly applies to the two extremely annoying women sat behind me who clearly have no football-related comment to make at all, save for stringing the words “Scotland”, “Gomez” and “clueless” in the same sentence. No issue with that particualrly, provided they had another record to play every now and again. That said, their presence at the stadium should really be confined to the laundry room, washing the kit. Not even worth a sh@g, either.