Inside Graham Potter's West Ham exit: How chaos behind the scenes led to his downfall, the meddling from David Sullivan that ruined his transfer plans and why players backed him right until the end

It's over, again, for Graham Potter. Seven months at Chelsea, eight months at West Ham. This was not how his career was meant to play out.

This was not the plan for the manager Pep Guardiola once hailed as the finest coach England had to offer.

Potter should be at the top of his game now. In another life, he would be England manager. He certainly was not supposed to have been chewed up and spat out by one giant of English football and then ground down and crushed by another.