• ‘It’s not approximately winning the fans over with talking; it’s approximately doing it with wins’
• Everton supporters not placated by 2-1 win over BournemouthRoberto Martnez may not realise he has talked his way into trouble but even the Everton manager appears to accept he will struggle to talk his way out of it. He has twin audiences to convince and the added difficulty that minds,particularly those of the supporters, already seem to be made up. He may be making a concerted attempt to persuade the fresh majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri but actions, or as he admitted,speak louder than words.“It’s not approximately winning the fans over with talking; it’s approximately doing it with wins,” he said. Yet with three games remaining there may be too few opportunities to procure them before an end-of-season review that must maintain the potential to double up as an inquest.
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Source: theguardian.com