Graham Potter: Chelsea head coach reveals he and his family have received death threats | ‘It doesn’t rock me’ | Football News

Graham Potter has revealed he has received death threats, but the Chelsea head coach insists he is not swayed by his desire to turn the club’s results around.

Potter is under pressure at Stamford Bridge after last Saturday’s 1-0 home defeat to Premier League bottom side Southampton.

The team, who are 10th in the league, have won just twice in their last 14 games and scored one goal at home in 2023.

The 47-year-old announced on Friday at a press conference that he had been the subject of an email attack, saying: “I have support, I have some very bad emails that I want to die and want my children to die, so obviously it’s not fun .

“The challenge for me was, ‘Okay, how do I act?’ That’s what I’m always avoiding, higher, more forcing you to be personal, I want to succeed here. There’s this nonsense that I don’t care about. Where did it come from? your proof of that?

“When you go to work and someone blames you, it’s not fun. You can answer in two ways. I can say I don’t care, but you know I’m lying. Everyone cares what people think. because we’re hardwired to connect socially.

“Ask my family how life is for me and for them. It’s not fun at all. I know the supporters go home and they’re upset because the team didn’t win but, I assure you, my life in the last three. , four months has been quite average, except for the fact that I grateful for this experience.”

Speaking of death threats ahead of Sunday’s game at Tottenham, life goes on Sky Sportssaid Sky Sports’ Geoff Shreeves: “You just have to put it aside, and thankfully it’s an isolated incident and it can come from anywhere. It’s just one of those things.

Asked if it had shaken him, he replied: “Not really. It’s just a throwing line, I think. I don’t give it more weight than that.

“It’s not fun and it’s not fun for the family. You accept criticism, you accept boos when you lose games, you accept whatever comes your way.

“Of course there is a line, but I will not be the first person in life where that line has been crossed and maybe in this case it has been crossed.”

In his five months in charge of Chelsea, Potter has been criticized for his relaxed and lackluster image on the sidelines.

Asked if he resents the presumption that he doesn’t care and doesn’t hold a grudge, he tells us Sky Sports: “Yes I am, but at the same time I also understand that people have opinions based on what they see, and what they see is a small part of me, my personality, how I act and how I got to this point.

“If people think you can just go from the ninth tier of English football through the fourth tier of Swedish football and climb up the pyramid and end up here with an apathetic, apathetic and unemotional personality, then they should try for themselves and see how they rise.”

Asked if he ever gets angry and stuck with players when necessary, he replied: “Yes, but I do it in a way that I think respects them and at the right time.

“Anyone can get angry but it’s about getting angry at the right time, in the right place, with the right people. I think you have to do what’s right for the team and the club.

“The anger is there. The feeling is there. If I had been a little selfish and a little selfish, maybe it would have come out more. But I think that the real part of this job is to put myself and think about the team and the club, and that I have done in everything job and it has become me too.

“You can criticize, but I come from a place where I know how to start, I know now, I know the team and the people I’ve worked with.

“We could do some montages of people who might give me good references from the work I’ve done and they’ll also say that I’m not what I think I am.

“People are treated a certain way and it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter.”