[Albion] Potter to a 'bigger' team

[PFW]

With all the talk of Potter going to Chelsea got me thinking. Has a Brighton manager ever left/ been headhunted to/by a team that is higher up in the table than Brighton

 

[JOLovegrove]

With all the talk of Potter going to Chelsea got me thinking. Has a Brighton manager ever left/ been headhunted to/by a team that is higher up in the table than Brighton

Have you checked the league table recently?

 

[PFW]

Have you checked the league table recently?

Ah, a flawed question!!! OK a so called 'bigger' team!!!!

 

[Icy Gull]

With all the talk of Potter going to Chelsea got me thinking. Has a Brighton manager ever left/ been headhunted to/by a team that is higher up in the table than Brighton

Steve Coppell, Brian Horton and Micky Adams (as an assistant) for a kick off

 

[Brovion]

With all the talk of Potter going to Chelsea got me thinking. Has a Brighton manager ever left/ been headhunted to/by a team that is higher up in the table than Brighton

Several times. Steve Coppell lo Reading being the most recent I think. Those of us with longer memories still recall Freddie Goodwin going to Leicester! (And of course Clough to Leeds followed by Taylor to join up with him at Forest).

EDIT: Yes, thanks Icy, I'd forgotten Adams and Horton!

 

[Bracknell_Gull]

Poyet?

 

[AnotherArch]

The more interesting, and difficult, question is ' who has ever left us voluntarily for a club that was in a currently LOWER position in the same league hierarchy?

 

[Gwylan]

Several times. Steve Coppell lo Reading being the most recent I think. Those of us with longer memories still recall Freddie Goodwin going to Leicester! (And of course Clough to Leeds followed by Taylor to join up with him at Forest).

Goodwin went to Birmingham

 

[Brovion]

Goodwin went to Birmingham

He did indeed! My mistake.