Bobby cant talk up Big Dave enough

from Sky Sports News (and note the ” “, as they are direct quotes)

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11682/7332778/Martinez-Whelan-knows-best

Whelan also caused a stir when he suggested that there was a very real threat that Wigan could go down this season, but that he was not worried if they do because there is a ‘resilience’ around the club.

Martinez is aware of the comments but insists they should not be viewed as defeatist, as that is not the message Whelan was trying to get across.

He said: “I think what he is trying to say is that financially, we have made a lot of arrangements over the last few seasons and now we are efficient as a football club, and could survive anywhere.

“I think it’s a real compliment to be able to say that – as a football club we could survive in any division, and probably we couldn’t say that three years ago, where we were relying on the chairman’s funding to be able to play our football.

“If you know the chairman, he is a winner, he doesn’t accept defeat easily and he knows that we are starting to get ready to achieve our aims this season.“We are going to give everything to stay in this league and he is the first one who believes that.”

Wigan will get another opportunity to clamber off the foot of the Premier League table on Saturday when they go to Sunderland.

Note the – ‘starting to get ready to achieve our aims this season’ – so does he mean, wigan are starting to think about winning a game or two as up to now they have not been ready to achieve this. What will todays excuse be? Maybe he should just start begging to keep his job in a more direct way.