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Best press conference moment: Brighton 2022 Fans’ Forum
We have saved the best Graham Potter moment as manager for last – and it had nothing to do with what happened on the pitch.
Okay, so the Brighton 2022 Fans’ Forum was not technically a press conference. It was though a glorious evening when Albion season ticket holder Dave stole the show.
An older fan, Dave took to the microphone around 45 minutes into the event to read out a five minute long poem he had written lambasting the Albion for introducing a £2.50 fee for printing matchday tickets at home.
Fans’ Forum host Johnny Cantor tried to cut Dave off mid-flow. Neither man nor beast could stop Dave. Once he eventually reached the end of his poem, the audience clapped and cheered.
So too did Potter. In fact, Potter looked as happy as he did at any other time in his three-and-a-bit seasons at the Albion. He laughed his head off, cheered and applauded more ferociously than anyone else in the room.
This was in stark contrast to Paul Barber, who was trying to smile but not-so-subtly seething inside that somebody had gone to the time and effort to write a clever poem criticising the club.
Potter loved it. Barber did not. Maybe that is why Brighton gave Potter permission to talk to Chelsea? They were happy to see the back of him after siding with that wannabe-Shakespeare troublemaker Dave? Now it all makes sense…