I'd say Potter is a LONG way from being "obvious". A couple of successful relegation scraps with a small PL club is hardly a golden ticket to St Georges Park.
And yes, Southgates club CV was hardly spectacular either, but he did get 60-odd caps for England, run the U21s for several years and so...
Nobody is ever going to agree 100% with his selections, least of all me. There's flawed logic many a time, and he's been caught like a rabbit in the headlights both times in the WCSF and the ECF, failing to react or do anything to turn the tide from a position of early superiority.
But he's...