There are plenty of excuses, plenty of mitigating circumstances, but there is no disguising Frank Lampard’s struggles as the manager of a Premier League football club.
He is on one horrendous run, losing 15 and drawing two of his last 18 matches.
Yes, he walked back into a basket case of a club when accepting the bizarre invitation to keep the bench warm for Julian Nagelsmann or whoever is next but that does not excuse the performances of his team so far. Todd Boehly’s buffoonery is, understandably, being highlighted as the root cause of Chelsea’s problems but Graham Potter did not perform well and Lampard is faring no better.
