When you have the backing that Graham Potter has at Chelsea, you don’t need to blame referees.
With the quality at Potter’s disposal you don’t need to deflect attention away from your false starts. So when the Blues boss leads his team out for a first-ever European meeting with Dortmund on Wednesday night, he’ll stay true to his principles and keep his head while all about him are losing theirs.
Had Potter angrily pointed the finger at referee Craig Pawson or the VAR for not awarding a penalty when West Ham ’s Thomas Soucek's blatantly handled in the box, there’d have been more than a few suggestions that the Blues boss was struggling to cope.
