The narrative seemed to write itself: Frank Lampard, having been offed by a famous Roman, resurrecting his managerial career at Easter. But the narrative was wrong. There has been no new manager bounce for Chelsea, quite the reverse. They have had a different manager for their past three games and they haven’t won any of them. This has been a new manager splat.
Sacking Graham Potter with quarter of the season remaining was presumably supposed to jolt Chelsea into life, to at least give them a puncher’s chance in the Champions League. That has not happened. Maybe at Stamford Bridge there will be an emotional surge, the once and future manager returning to save his club in their hour of need, but there was little of that in Wolverhampton.
