{"id":106331,"date":"2025-10-07T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106331\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:37:09","slug":"i-was-dropped-but-i-was-still-skipping-out-thinking-hes-the-best-manager-ever-roberto-martinezs-irish-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106331\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was dropped but I was still skipping out thinking he\u2019s the best manager ever\u2019 \u2013 Roberto Martinez\u2019s Irish connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Long before he was in charge of Portugal, the Spanish manager worked his way up the English football pyramid and impressed both Thomas Butler and Conor Sammon\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roberto Martinez celebrates with James McCarthy after Wigan booked their place in the 2013 FA Cup final where they would stun Manchester City\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/is jamesmc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Roberto Martinez celebrates with James McCarthy after Wigan booked their place in the 2013 FA Cup final where they would stun Manchester City<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Thomas Butler can still remember the day he marched into Roberto Martinez\u2019s office demanding answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Furious after being dropped from Swansea\u2019s starting line-up, the former Ireland midfielder made a beeline towards his manager\u2019s desk, ready to give Martinez a piece of his mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before he was in charge of Portugal, the Spanish manager worked his way up the English football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-106331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sean-oconnor","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}