If Graham Potter Master’s degree in emotional intelligence was as meaningful as is often stated, he would sense innately that evidence of some unreasonableness in his personality would help matters right about now. It has become an accepted opinion among the more considered element of the football community that the idea that Potter should demonstrate some performative anger is an antediluvian and barbaric demand made by reactionaries. The fact that football supporters as a group can often seem antediluvian and barbaric complicates the matter somewhat, especially as Potter is working for Chelsea, a support base which has never had any…

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