Everton boss Roberto Martinez refused to get down over critical graffiti appearing at Goodison Park on the weekend.

Martinez was asked about the scrawls after victory at QPR.

"What I have discovered is that we're a passionate football club, a big football club," said Martinez.

"I understand when we don't get the results we want, you're going to get unrest, so as a manager I accept that.

"You always need to focus on what we can do to be a winning team, which is my focus and my only aim and I always respect whatever the views from the outside.

"Football is not about managers or me, we showed last season when we finished fifth that our football was fantastic.

"There are reasons why we couldn't maintain that in this campaign, I'm the first one to accept that Everton is a club that should be fighting for the top positions."