The English managerial success story shunned by the Premier League

Graham Potter has performed minor miracles in seven year with Swedish club Ostersund but never gets mentioned when a comparable job becomes available in England

Graeme Jones knew there was something atypical about the full-back who had joined him in signing on for a League Two season at Boston United. It was 2003 and winter was, for different reasons, drawing in on both men’s playing careers: Jones had been a prolific goalscorer in the lower divisions but was 33 and had half an eye on what was next; Graham Potter was five years younger and had never quite strung together a few consistent seasons in the top two tiers with Birmingham, Stoke, Southampton and West Bromwich Albion. There was a sense of disillusionment in Potter but there was more, too: a spark behind it all that, in 10 years as a professional, Jones had rarely seen in a team-mate.

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