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You can describe any manager by talking down achievements and omitting other factors. I know a manager who's only achievements are: - bimbling around the Italian lower leagues for eight years with a win rate of less than 40%, winning only the Italian version of the FA Trophy, - getting...

Spot on. The thing is, Chelsea are still Chelsea. You simply cannot begrudge an ambitious manager for wanting to test himself at the highest level, it's just a real pity that it happened at Chelsea. "Hey, Mr Potter? Come here and we'll surround you with your mates, pay you £10m a year and give...

I'll regret this, I'm sure, but I agree. Real Madrid and "Winning the ****ing Champions League" are almost certainly Chelsea's priority and also their only chance of being in the Europe again next season. Potter can't afford to throw the cup competitions at Chelsea, so I expect him to seriously...

Never had an issue with this. Suffering is relative, surely? Can you only suffer in the Ukraine? Or Syria? At what point does he qualify to suffer? I mean, receiving death threats personally and wishing death on his kids must have been a real challenge wherever or whoever you are. "Shut up mate...

I think a finisher is a big part of it, but I was actually referring to out inability to break down teams that sit back, pop 11 men behind the ball and sh!thouse us for 90 minutes in the hope of springing a quick counter to get something out of the game. Fulham and Palace were obvious examples...

Oh I know, and the manner of those wins is something special too, but that said in Potter's last 15 games we beat Man United twice (4-0 and 2-1), thrashed Leicester 5-2, beat Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham twice (as per...) and only lost twice (Man City and Fulham) and scoring for fun. My...

Although I generally agree, if you'd been in a coma for the last 6 months and taken the Palace and Fulham games at face value you'd have been forgiven for thinking Potter was still our manager: A billion % of possession, not taking our chances, conceding on the break etc etc.

It's not retrospective narrative building to say we improved under Potter from the Hughton era and De Zerbi has improved us further from there. Of course, there were some dire patches under Potter but as others have said they were fewer and far less grim that those under Hughton. My point is...

I mean, this is either fishing or idiocy. Whatever agenda you may have, Potter improved the Albion and without his changes to the way we played football I can near on guarantee that De Zerbi wouldn't be anywhere near taking the Brighton job. The move from Hughton > Potter > De Zerbi was a...

I'm not sure how you got him being spot on about ref abuse in 2023 to thinking I'm condoning him having a go at Brighton fans in 2021

He is absolutely spot on to be fair. We can engineer reasons to keep laughing at him, sure, but this isn't one of them. For those who don't want to watch the video: “I try to be careful not to get into these discussions through the media,” Potter said. “Of course I get angry. I am a human...