[Football] Potter [NOT] at Chelsea

[Neville's Breakfast]

I personally don’t like the chap given how he left us, who he left us for and the mass exodus he caused. I’ve enjoyed watching Chelsea plummet and Potter not do so well but I’m a bitter, twisted individual with a short memory. Boo him by all means. We all know how much he enjoys that. But death threats and abuse to his family is too far and has no place at all.

They also reveal a complete lack of understanding of pantomime.

 

[raymondo]

Death threats along with their cousins sexist and racist abuse seem to be becoming more and more popular. When I did my jury service 20 plus years ago one of the charges against the defendants was threats to kill. As I remember it it carried a potentially very hefty prison sentence.

How hard can it be to find these people and hit them with the full force of the law. Once some of these sad sacks get serious prison time then all the other trolls will stop.

If the threats are coming form overseas then surely it's not too hard for the social media platforms to present the evidence along with the individuals/clubs to the relevant authorities in whichever jurisdiction is responsible for the abuser.

You are right - it's wrongly been allowed/facilitated to become normalised.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

f*** him. Sympathy will not buy it. He is a f***ing snakey ****. Deserves it being shit there, those pandering to him are everything thats wrong with our fan base. Hes doing this to drum up sympathy votes, prick. Do not trust him.

We'll put you down as on the fence

 

[Robinjakarta]

f*** him. Sympathy will not buy it. He is a f***ing snakey ****. Deserves it being shit there, those pandering to him are everything thats wrong with our fan base. Hes doing this to drum up sympathy votes, prick. Do not trust him.

So death threats are OK? Simple yes/no question.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

They also reveal a complete lack of understanding of pantomime.

Oh no they don't

 

[raymondo]

TBH for a £60m contact I’d be prepared to be spit roasted by Steve Parish and Wilf Zaha whilst Jo Brand shits on my tits.

Money isn't everything

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Death threats in the social media age are a bit of a nonsense. 99.9% aren't credible. If anything it's just a vehicle for people in the public eye to garner a bit of sympathy when they're under pressure.

In the 90's you had to know some personal details and make a bit of effort to send a death threat, that in itself carries an element of threat.
On Social media any old scumbag can write and send offensive words from anywhere in the world.

I bet the people who murdered Jo Cox and David Amiss didn't send threats, they just went and did it.

This. Things haven’t got better or worse. Provide a platform and the idiotic fringe will use it. We have gun control here to control a certain element’s uncontrolled behaviour. We could do with social media control to achieve the same online or at least @Bozza could provide the stern tellings off on Twitter etc as it works on NSC.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

So death threats are OK? Simple yes/no question.

Didn’t say they were, did I? They are abhorrent. But thats not what I am talking about.

 

[seagullwedgee]

I don’t like the bloke. I never have. My list of reasons is too long to list here. I hope Chelss get absolutely battered to bits today. i hope he gets dogs abuse from the fans, and gets sacked in the morning. Then he can be freed from the pressure of a job that is not suited to his method, and freed from all the vile social media threats.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Quite an astute move by GP to make this public. A subset of Chelsea fans are going to have to own responsibility for any future difficulties in finding the Potter replacement. Any top manager has a choice of jobs and the Chelsea one is becoming more toxic by the week.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The whole situation has a real End Of Days feel about it now. Only so many ways of attempting to explain away all these endless mediocre performances. A feeble display v Tottenham and going out of the Champions League to Dortmund and his position is untenable. Truth be told, it already has been for quite some time now. The 'mutual consent' thing beckons anyday now. And there will be nobody more thankful than Potter. He must absolutely hate going to work, no matter how much they're paying him. It's a waking nightmare of his own making

 

[portlock seagull]

Quite an astute move by GP to make this public. A subset of Chelsea fans are going to have to own responsibility for any future difficulties in finding the Potter replacement. Any top manager has a choice of jobs and the Chelsea one is becoming more toxic by the week.

Top managers always succumb to top salaries, they’ll be no shortage of and Chelsea are in that club where money has become meaningless. Half a billion is nothing to the owners. Same at Citeh and NewSandCastle. This is why I don’t understand wrath of their fans citing ‘wasted money’. Firstly it’s not theirs to waste. Secondly when money is meaningless because you’ve too much of it, how can it ever be wasted? You simply spend even more of it until results improve. Inevitably they will by virtue you’ve got more that just about everyone else. That is the ‘modern game.’ Interesting isn’t it?!

 

[Stat Brother]

70+ (73 I think) line up changes in 18 games.

 

[portlock seagull]

70+ (73 I think) line up changes in 18 games.

Still only half the squad used then?

 

[Billy in Bristol]

Nice paragraph about our progress post Potter...

Timing and luck: there is more to Graham Potter’s strife than a lack of passion

Brighton’s progress under Roberto De Zerbi since the Chelsea manager left only emphasises the role other factors play in a manager’s success

www.theguardian.com

 

[Billy the Fish]

1-0 again.

Graham is toast!

 

[Swansman]

If it finishes 1-0 you have to imagine that will be it

 

[The Fits]

Big question is who would replace him? Jessie Marsch?

 

[ChickenBaltiPie]

Can’t deny, not sure I’ve cheered another team scoring (that doesn’t directly effect our position in the table at the tail end of the season, haha) more! Whoops…and as I write this, in goes the second. YAYE!! Keeps Chelsea down and out the way but makes it that bit harder to catch Tottenham.

 

[Lenny Rider]

If it finishes 1-0 you have to imagine that will be it

I think they will wait for the end of their CL campaign, unless they were to win it