Casual as you like, Emiliano Martinez delivers the killer line. Flanked by Aston Villa chiefs Damian Vidagany and Monchi, Martinez has just announced to about 350 supporters that he has signed a new five-year contract with the club.
The Argentine has already been serenaded with Holte End favourite ‘Emi Martinez, the world’s number one!’ and is in no mood to argue. ‘I became the best in the world here,’ he says, as breezily as if recalling what he has eaten for breakfast.
Asked about Saturday's meeting with Arsenal, who sold him to Villa for just £17million four years ago, Martinez describes it as ‘just another game’.