Everton beat Southampton in the first game of the day to record their first away victory against the Saints in 13 years. Romelu Lukaku won man of the match with a brilliant display capped with two goals.
Commenting on that, Everton manager Roberto Martinez tried to phrase something in a way that would suggest he wants Lukaku to repeat his performance, but got things slightly wrong.
Roberto Martinez on Romelu Lukaku apologising to a female fan he hit in the warm-up. 'Maybe he’ll have to hit a woman in every game.'
— Sam Cunningham (@samcunningham) August 15, 2015
Given the class of Martinez, we can be supremely confident that he isn't condoning violence against women here. It's just an unfortunate case of a foreign manager getting his phrasing quite wrong.
