A Frank admission
Frank Lampard went into this week as arguably the most strongly-backed manager brought in by Farhad Moshiri but given the Everton owner’s track record for pressing the panic button, the current Blues boss could now be wary of the fan backlash that has accompanied these three successive defeats. Lampard has been onside with the majority of Evertonians from the start – along with Carlo Ancelotti whose unequalled credentials in football’s leading dugouts made him something of an untouchable at Goodison Park, he is the only one of Moshiri’s appointments to be afforded his own song – but the cheers have quickly turned to jeers this week through the sequence of bum notes on the pitch.
In many ways the antithesis of his emotionally-distant predecessor Rafael Benitez, Lampard has tapped into the passion of Everton and harnessed those emotions but ultimately like the former Liverpool manager, who lost nine of his last 13 Premier League matches in charge, and indeed as all in his profession are, he will be judged upon results. Half of the top flight’s bottom eight clubs – including Bournemouth – have sacked the manager they started this season with and while most of us who care for the Blues and watch them on a regular basis recognise the folly of the constant cycle of hiring and firing that has sent the club on a downward spiral on the field under the current regime, questions are now being asked by some.
