Chelsea are being urged and tipped to sack Graham Potter, though nobody can find anybody to say it so they just pretend…
Stiff middle fingers
That was pretty poor from Chelsea at Manchester City but sorry, not having this from The Sun:
‘Man City 4 Chelsea 0: Injury-ravaged Blues humiliated by second-string hosts in FA Cup nightmare as fans turn on Potter’
Of City’s most-used 10 outfield players this season, five started against Chelsea on Sunday. Second string, our collective arses.
And of the players from outside that elite list, multiple-title-winning defensive pair Kyle Walker and Aymeric Laporte’s seasons have been curtailed by injury and Julian Alvarez is back-up to the world’s deadliest finisher and he has just won the actual World Cup.
Some sodding second string.
There will be blood
Scenting managerial blood, The Sun website go again with this humdinger of a headline:
‘Chelsea legend Frank Leboeuf calls for Graham Potter to be SACKED after Man City drubbing as he slams ‘shameful’ stars’
SACKED, you say?
‘CHELSEA legend Frank Leboeuf has called for boss Graham Potter to be sacked after just four months at the helm.’
The slight problem? Leboeuf said absolutely nothing of the sort.
What he did say was “Mr Potter, enough is enough now, something needs to be changed”, which suggests that any change he is demanding is Potter’s to make. And we don’t think Potter will SACK himself.
And yes, we see you MailOnline, pretending the same:
”Enough is ENOUGH’: Chelsea icon Frank Leboeuf calls for Graham Potter to be SACKED, slams ‘gutless’ stars Mason Mount and Kai Havertz and says Jorginho should be cast off in stunning outburst’
You can use as many capital letters as you want; he still didn’t actually say it.
Who wants to be a millionaire flop?
There’s obviously mileage in Graham Potter sack talk, which is how you get headlines like these in the Daily Star:
‘Graham Potter ‘can’t survive much more humiliation’ before getting Chelsea sack’
Those little marks in the air are quote marks, traditionally used to mark quotes. So who is the headline quoting?
‘It’s difficult to see how much more humiliation Graham Potter can survive.’
That’s literally how Jeremy Cross’ match report begins. So the headline to a match report is quoting the actual match report now? And a terrible match report at that…
‘If the Chelsea boss thought the FA Cup would be a welcome distraction from his side’s Premier…
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