Roberto Martinez Interview

[FelindreJack]

I absolutely detested him and if he came on tv I’d have to turn over quickly to stop myself spitting at the screen but on Saturday 11th April 2015 Roberto Martinez brought his Everton team to the Liberty Stadium to play the mighty Swans in a Premier League fixture.
We weren’t there,we were sat by Amy’s bed in ITU in Morriston Hospital where she was critically ill but stable with Sepsis,she’d been unconscious all week and had gone down to just over two stone in weight.

On the following Monday the sister in charge of ITU came to us and asked if Mike McCabe the consultant from A&E could come and speak to us.
My wife and I immediately wanted to know what was wrong as we thought it was going to be devastating news but the ward sister said she didn’t know.
Later that morning the door opened and Mr McCabe walked in,I recognised him from the local paper and I’d seen him at the Liberty,he spoke to the ward sister and she pointed over to us.
He walked over and introduced himself and asked about Amy and said he’d looked at her notes and all the signs were looking positive,he was very comforting and reassuring.

Then he said “anyway the reason I’m here is because my secretary has taken a phone call from Roberto Martinez’s secretary this morning and Roberto and Richard Evans noticed you guys weren’t at the match on Saturday and they’d been told the reason why and they would like to know how Amy is doing?”

I just started crying.

Then he asked for permission for his secretary to phone Everton back and pass on the information.
He shook our hands,said everything will be ok and left.

Don’t be too bitter guys it’s only football.

Fair play, glad everything worked out with Amy Dar. I was a youngster when Martinez was a player here, he was one of my favourite players at the time, I met him a few times and he got to know my name. I met him a few years later when he was the manager and he still remembered me, i know it’s only a small thing but it just goes to show the guy that he is. It hurt the way he left us, yes, but as you said, it’s only football.

 

[dickythorpe]

He did nothing that was different to many of our "legends" that played for us.
Moved on for better money......like many of us do in our jobs.

 

[Swansea93]

He was always lovely when I met him as a kid, he took me and a few friends into the Guildhall when they celebrating the L1 title, took us on the Swans coach for a look around and to meet the players, yes of course I was gutted he left us, he left for Premier League and to a former club, but without the success and the blueprint he brought to the swans we wouldn’t have achieved what we did imo

 

[Pegojack]

The thing is that its that kind of thinking that some still regard Jenkins as a Swansea City FC legend, yet they both s**t on SCFC, all be it more so Jenkins.

I’d thank Jenkins too… because funnily enough, we’re still a million times better off now than where we would have been if he didn’t come and save us… whilst in that time we also experienced Premier League, League Cup and European Success.

That's a bridge too far for me. He and his fellow sell-outs deliberately stabbed the Swans Trust in the back, and therefore the fan base, purely to line their own pockets. Scum in my eyes, and always will be, however they try to justify it.

 

[waynekerr55]

The thing is that its that kind of thinking that some still regard Jenkins as a Swansea City FC legend, yet they both s**t on SCFC, all be it more so Jenkins.

I’d thank Jenkins too… because funnily enough, we’re still a million times better off now than where we would have been if he didn’t come and save us… whilst in that time we also experienced Premier League, League Cup and European Success.

Point of order - he didn't save us. Controversial opinion but Dineen did more in the early days and shelled a load of his own dough out.

But yes, there was much good. We are financially fúcked now as a result of his own actions as DoF