The Baroness has broken her silence after her sharp exit from West Ham United as disaster loomed on several fronts last month.
The Hammers, now relegated into the Championship after becoming a tepid parody of the ‘world class team’ promises made just ten years ago, are the subject of Brady’ Sun newspaper article in which she rather throws her husband’s best friend – and her pick as manager- under the West Ham bus.
In her Friday article in the Sun.co.uk, Brady confirms what fans and players all knew – that Potter had screwed up big time in his half season at West Ham.
Brady – apparently – pushed for the appointment of Graham Potter but has been hugely critical of how he left West Ham in her own Sun column
Referring to the club’s turnaround which followed Nuno’s arrival, after her man Potter got his marching orders, she writes:
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“I believe there are reasons for supporters to look forward with some optimism, particularly with Nuno Espirito Santo remaining in charge.
When he came in, the situation was already difficult. Confidence was low, pressure was everywhere and every game carried enormous weight. Yet almost immediately there was greater organisation, greater discipline and just as importantly, greater belief.
You could see players fighting again, you could see a manager taking responsibility.”
….Unlike Graham Potter. (She could have added). Organisation. Discipline. Belief. A manager taking responsibility. Pretty blunt criticisms of, ironically, her own ‘pick’ as manager of West Ham, then.
The manager who she once referred to as ‘ a great man‘ is pretty much skewered by the Baroness’ own words in a fairly clear admission of the dreadful state in which Potter left the club and from which they never recovered.
The former Hammers manager, fired in September last year, was a team mate of Brady’s husband Paul Peschisolido back in his playing days and apparently they remain great friends. Until this article, maybe.
After? I’m not so sure.