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It can. See this season. Not sure how you can divorce the success of a football manager (by the way Potter is deliberately the head "coach" ) from their owners, squads, and finances or the influence of Tony Bloom in Albion's case but fair enough. PS: you brought up cheating !!

You're right to say that football is notoriously knee jerk (as are football forums !) and a manager's shelf life can be limited but to dismiss a strategy or long term plans in Brighton's case is overlooking the change in the last 11 years or 23 years. It clearly isn't all about the short term...

Yep. They're an established EPL team but lets not get too carried away. All credit to them for that City victory but it was nearly 2 years ago. (Dec 18) - but their normal record v top 6/top 10 clubs is as patchy as ours. One win last season v (Man Utd, Arsenal, Man City, Spurs, Liverpool...

Mystified ? Bloom took over Brighton in May 2009. So far the project has been 11 long years.He can be pretty ruthless when needed - see Hughton - but he's not going to be distracted from his goal of a top half, sustainable profitable team for the sake of a few defeats or a bad run. We've all...

Not pointing out that we can improve - who doesn't think that anyway (game management, defending at set pieces, giving the ball away, finishing are areas so far this season worthy of a look) - hardly makes you are a "bigot" or even a rose tinted one.

Palace lost 4-0 on Saturday, Liverpool 7-2, Leicester 3-0, Wolves 4-0 and Man Utd 6-1. Man City lost 5-2 last week, Newcastle 3-0 to er, us. All worse results than any of ours so far. Fulham, West Brom and Burnley have no points and don't look in a great position.. Do any of the clubs above...