He sits in the court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet. |
The crew on board the aging vessel is a mix of Namibians, Cubans and white South Africans, overseen by a martinet whom everyone dislikes. |
He understands he can't be a martinet with a group of seasoned professionals. |
It is run by an ex-army martinet absurdly out of touch and absent-mindedly rooting about in irrelevances. |
In the worst sense, he was a monomaniacal martinet whose focus on his bailiwick to the exclusion of everything else is phenomenal. |
To the midfielder, the perception of him as a mirthless martinet is a failure to understand the greatest manager this country has produced. |