Chelsea thrash West Ham to pile pressure on Graham Potter

This was Graham Potter finding out what a broken club looks like. It is the London Stadium emptying out long before full-time, patience worn thin by the latest in a long line of humiliations. It is fans reacting with sarcastic applause when your new £15m goalkeeper saves a shot with the game already dead and, perhaps more than anything, it is one poor lad mounting a solo pitch invasion after seeing Chelsea go 5-1 up thanks to West Ham’s latest failure to defend a set-piece.Potter, whose job is surely under threat now, left Chelsea bruised by the experience but this was something else. Continue reading...

Chelsea thrash West Ham to pile pressure on Graham Potter

This was Graham Potter finding out what a broken club looks like. It is the London Stadium emptying out long before full-time, patience worn thin by the latest in a long line of humiliations. It is fans reacting with sarcastic applause when your new £15m goalkeeper saves a shot with the game already dead and, perhaps more than anything, it is one poor lad mounting a solo pitch invasion after seeing Chelsea go 5-1 up thanks to West Ham’s latest failure to defend a set-piece.

Potter, whose job is surely under threat now, left Chelsea bruised by the experience but this was something else.

Continue reading...