Emi Martinez

[Scratchins]

Has anyone mentioned Neil Cutler's role in this? I bet Emi will be in touch.

[Towser]

Has anyone mentioned Neil Cutler's role in this? I bet Emi will be in touch.

He has already

[Chico Hamilton III]

He looked like a man possessed in the build up to the shoot out.

Penalties should favour the kicker.

But with that loon, it feels like a 60-40 chance in favour of him always.

Hopefully we get the benefit of some of that in our run to Wembley in the second half of the season.

Grobbelaar was shithousing in European Cup finals over 40 years ago. And van Bruekelen was the Dutch master of it. It’s nothing new.

Harry Kane will shit his keks if Spurs get a pen on New Year’s Day.

[SaddVillan]

My son's just Whatsapped me this:

His reputation for saving pens might be more important than his actual ability to save pens.

Emi saved;
3 in the Copa America shootout v Colombia
2 v Netherlands
1 v France and can probably claim the miss too.

I reckon that when you step up to face him and you're not a regular penalty taker you know the odds are against you.

[LeeB]

My son's just Whatsapped me this:

His reputation for saving pens might be more important than his actual ability to save pens.

Emi saved;
3 in the Copa America shootout v Colombia
2 v Netherlands
1 v France and can probably claim the miss too.

I reckon that when you step up to face him and you're not a regular penalty taker you know the odds are against you.

Ha absolutely owns the stage when it comes to penalties. Look at Lloris, he may as well have gone home at the end of extra time, he was totally irrelevant for Argentina's penalties.

[Pete3206]

About Martinez sticking his Roy Munson out in front of that Qatari official.

Sorry you squares, I thought it was hilarious. Lighten up.

[paul_e]

My son's just Whatsapped me this:

His reputation for saving pens might be more important than his actual ability to save pens.

Emi saved;
3 in the Copa America shootout v Colombia
2 v Netherlands
1 v France and can probably claim the miss too.

I reckon that when you step up to face him and you're not a regular penalty taker you know the odds are against you.

Ha absolutely owns the stage when it comes to penalties. Look at Lloris, he may as well have gone home at the end of extra time, he was totally irrelevant for Argentina's penalties.

The best way to look at it is can you imagine anyone taking a pen like Messi an Dybala did against Emi? He goads players into trying too hard to beat him and takes advantage of them losing their cool.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I hope he brings his golden glove out with him for every Villa game. He can wave it at away fans and leave it in the back of the net with his man bag. Top shithousery

[pauliewalnuts]

When it went to penalties did anyone think even for a nanosecond France would win? I didn’t.

Apart from Martinez, who would have been prepared to set fire to his grandmother on the penalty spot to get an advantage, they had Loris, who was odds on to do a Shilton 1990 and not get near any of them.

Martinez is a winner, and he’s our winner.

I’m also glad he did the cock gesture with the trophy in front of the random Qatari dignitary. Fuck them.

[The Edge]

I'm not a fan of the shithousery, I must say, but if it's what it takes for him to be so excellent, then so be it. If he wanted to celebrate every throw-in by farting on a photograph of Madeleine McCann, I wouldn't approve but that would be his method and his business.

It's not how I'd choose to go about things, but pretending modern football is a game of honour and fair play is delusional.

It's nothing new. Even Bobby Moore knew a few tricks although not on the same scale as Emi's shithousery. He famously rattled Scotland just by being polite. The story goes that the Scots were in the dressing room at Wembley and they were making an almighty racket and banging on the walls etc in an effort to scare the shit out of the England players. Bobby waited for a moment's silence then knocked on their dressing room door. They opened it and he stood there in full white kit with the ball under his arm. He simply said "game on chaps" and walked away. The Scots realised that their attempt at intimidating England hadn't worked. Sort of gentlemanly shithousery. I can't recall who won but the story was told on talk sport and I think it was Alan Mullery talking.

[eamonn]

Lloris is shite, I'm sick of seeing him, he reminds me of a housemate I used to share with, they both have smackable faces.
 And I don't get the fuss about him. He was their captain too...sheesh.

[Somniloquism]

If the French player hadn't have been intimidated so much into pushing it as wide, Emi was saving it anyway.

[LeeB]

If the French player hadn't have been intimidated so much into pushing it as wide, Emi was saving it anyway.

They showed that players face just before he took it and the first thing that came into my head was 'Mason Holgate'. He was already beaten before he shot.

[The Edge]

If the French player hadn't have been intimidated so much into pushing it as wide, Emi was saving it anyway.

Yeah he definitely had it covered.

[Risso]

If I was keeper in a penalty shoot out like that, I think I'd stay in the middle most of the time.  There are always one or two that go straight down the centre, whereas if the player taking the kick puts it into the side left or right, it's got to be a great save even if you guess right.