Magic day unless your name is Potter: Brighton 4-1 Chelsea photos
“I didn’t take many photos because I was too busy losing my mind at Brighton beating Chelsea 4-1.”
If we had a pound for everyone who words to that effect in the aftermath of one of the greatest afternoons in Albion history, then we would be very rich indeed right now.
Fortunately, some of you did find the time to capture the total bedlam caused by the Albion heaping utter humiliation on their former head coach Graham Potter as he returned to the Amex for the first time since abandoning ship for Stamford Bridge.
Potter is not the only Brighton employee to have been bought by Chelsea these past few months. New Blues owner Todd Boehly seemingly has no idea how to run a Premier League football club and so has decided to asset strip everything he possibly can from one of the most successful operations in the division.
Billy Reid, Bjorn Hamberg, Ben Roberts, Bruno, Kyle Macauley and Marc Cucurella have all scurried off up the M23.
Brighton head of recruitment Paul Winstanley looks set to join them before Chelsea come back in January for Leandro Trossard, Moises Caicedo, Alexis Mac Allister, Gully, Richard Reynolds and the team bus driver.
Such pillaging by Boehly, Potter and Chelsea meant the Amex was as loud and febrile as it has ever been. There were boos. Chants of “You’re getting sacked in the morning.”
Some Albion fans even managed to smuggle inflatable snakes into the stadium. Expect those to be added to the list of items prohibited for being more dangerous than a nuclear weapon, alongside a flask of soup and a bottle lid.
Chelsea wilted in such an intimidating atmosphere, up there with the first game at the Amex and the Championship playoff semi final second leg against Sheffield Wednesday in May 2016.
Trossard put Brighton ahead with just five minutes on the clock. Own goals from Reuben Loftus-Cheek and Trevor Chalobah made it 3-0 going into half time.
Kai Havertz pulled one back for the Blues soon after the restart, but that was as good as it got for the visitors. Pascal Gross finished the rout in the injury time as a chorus echoed around of “Potter, Potter, what’s the score?”
Brighton 4-1 Chelsea, in case you had forgotten. Glorious.
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