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The Football Show · 14 October 2026
"Is Peter Martin the one and only member of the Stephen Robinson Defence League?" A viewer asks, and Peter answers: give managers time. He did it for Derek McInnes, and on Celtic: "I just felt they've left Martin exposed... to paper over the cracks of their complete ineptitude." Plus Robinson's League Cup semi-final ("my third one in six months"), Derek Harper's "Robinson's football is awful", and "nobody cares about style" when you win. From The Football Show LIVE, 12 October 2026.
Transcript:
I don't think so, but I'm not an Aberdeen fan, I don't watch them every week and performances and results like that will increase the pressure on him but I wouldn't say after six games he's under pressure. Jack says, 'Is Peter Martin the one and only member of the Stephen Robinson Defence League?' The guy who's back home saying 'Stephen Robinson is a football terrorist.' I don't know who that is. I don't know if you get the Aberdeen top, Rob will give you that. Rob will give you that. Yeah, yeah, it's got, it's got SR on the back. But I don't know, I just feel as if, I just feel as if with everybody, and by the way, I stand by this, you don't want to become an apologist. You try and not be kneejerk you try and look at things in the context and I remember in this show in the start of the season three or four games and I'm saying listen you need to give Derek McInnes time.
They were slaughtering him. Yeah. You need to give him time. With Martin O'Neill, it was a different kettle of fish, because quite simply, you credit them... I'm friendly with Martin, I like Martin. It's the same as we were getting pelters for the Neil Lennon scenario last season. I just felt they've left Martin exposed. I just think they've left him wide open to paper over the cracks of their complete ineptitude and their pig-headedness that they'll do it their way, and everybody shut up and keep buying the strips. So I think from that point of view, I find myself defending Martin against a group of people that are, you know, not liked by many now. But you know when you look at other managers and you see you've got to give them time you got to give them... You can't be sacking people. See, the unfortunate thing is, Gray is a perfect example.
Stephen Robinson's in a semi-final as well, the League Cup. No, listen, I think the fact that he's got to the semi-final, and it's interesting, because I remember his post-match after that, and he went, 'Yeah, that's my third one in six months,' so he was just putting a marker down. But he's actually capable of... I think what is it, one win and then obviously they get through, within that and seven games yeah but obviously they get through in the cup as well so what about Derek Harper, who's just said there, 'Robinson's football is awful, trust me, I go every week.' Well, do you think about it, see if his football was actually paying dividends and they were winning, then they would settle for anything, I think. And I know people go, it's an entertainment business, but see when you're walking away and you've won a game of football, nobody cares about style.
Yeah, so all of a sudden, then, you can have a wee bit of a turbulent kind of spell. But see, the thing is, the unfortunate thing is, Peter, a lot of people have already made up their mind early.
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