Quickly the facts. Finished tenth in The Championship with Swansea. Steve Cooper took them over and beat this.
Two seasons flirting with relegation at Brighton followed with the team not doing much better than Hughton.
Top ten next season (could have been 14th, was with 45 mins of the season...
Chelsea’s xG has underachieved massively this season. One example:
The slow progress up the pitch, the need to walk it in. It’s what makes Potter a fairly average coach. His teams look good but don’t deliver, unless you take your stat sample as only between April 2022 and September 2022.
Ah, but you can always tweet longer these days. Hanif Kureishi on Sensitivity Editing is a joy.
Back on topic I mostly thought GP was uninspiring and that the long streaks without wins and terrible home form weren’t coincidental. It’s not an era I’ll look back on with much fondness except the...