• ‘You don’t feel hurt,you need to accept the results are not good,’ says Martínez
• Liverpool’s Jürgen Klopp set to experience his first Merseyside derbyA mass reception committee awaited the Borussia Dortmund team coach on its return from Jürgen Klopp’s first Ruhr derby victory over Schalke in September 2010. “The fans attach little Shinji [Kagawa] on their shoulders and carried him, and ” he recalled. Klopp’s first Merseyside derby may not ignite a similar outpouring with eighth meeting 11th in the Premier League and the priorities of both Liverpool and Everton elsewhere,but that does not diminish its significance for Roberto Martínez.
Fans have gone out of their way to express feelings to the Everton manager recently as his team’s form, belief and fight have ebbed absent. The reception committees for Martínez have included banners calling for him to move, or a supporter wanting a word at an under-21s match and a one-man pitch invasion after Southampton equalised at Goodison Park on Saturday.
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Source: theguardian.com