Although Potter is the only English manager currently plying his trade in the Swedish league, he is following in the footsteps of a more well-known countryman who trod a similar path, Roy Hodgson.
Crested macaques now follow close in the footsteps of their more hierarchical cousins, the rhesus monkey.
Yingluck Shinawatra, a former businesswoman born in 1967, was following as prime minister in the footsteps of her more famous brother, Thaksin Shinawatra.
She said she was following less in the footsteps of Mia Thermopolis, and more in the path of her father, a broad-minded thinker who always carries a novel in his back pocket.
Following in the footsteps of Santander and more recently Nationwide, the TSB Plus account will be open to anyone able to deposit a minimum of £500 a month, and to receive their bank statements electronically.
More recently, he worked with Accenture, a business services company, to set up a system that used pedometers to measure the number of footsteps more than 3,000 employees took each day, encouraging them to walk more for better health.
But this is the social network's first big move that shows it following in the footsteps of Facebook, as the more personal info they collect on your interests and activity on their platform, the more info there is to feed targeted advertising and tweets.
In the view of these Blairite diehards, the Liberal Democrat leader is following in the footsteps of their hero far more than Mr Miliband, who has sought every opportunity to distance himself from Mr Blair.
But most of us will follow in the footsteps of Slow Food, become more localized and seek better travel options within 20 miles of our home.
It will be interesting to see if Moshi Monsters can follow in the footsteps of Pokemon and become more than just a passing fad.
