Potter has signed his own P45 at West Ham with three worst calls yet

West Ham 1-2 Crystal Palace (Bowen 49’ | Mateta 37’, Mitchell 68’)

LONDON STADIUM — The Graham Potter experiment looks increasingly like somebody in the boardroom swallowed a textbook on what modern chairmen want when the decision was made. The result: a club in disarray and a manager plunged into a bleak, uncertain hinterland. It is hard to see how he survives; less still, where he goes from here.

From the beginning there was a hint of co-dependency about this appointment. Potter needed this to work as badly as West Ham did. David Sullivan will no doubt lurch in the opposite direction now and both he and Karren Brady deserve every ounce of scrutiny they receive for it.

But whether it is to be Nuno Esperito Santo, Slaven Bilic, or someone else entirely, at least they have options. Fo