"We know that he needs to be loved. But it does seem a little bit rich to be complaining that people paying between £50 and £80 to watch a single game are not being massively supportive when it doesn’t appear as if all the time he is putting the effort in. He didn’t seem to be saying, ‘I’m playing well get behind me’, he was saying, ‘I’ve done lots of things in the past’. Well, OK, it’s what you do now that counts. You are only as good as your last performance. Fans want to see that people are trying. It’s easy to criticise fans but people do know commitment when they see it.