The top ten reasons Chelsea sacked Rice-obsessed Lampard
Date published: Tuesday 26th January 2021 6:57 - Matthew Stead
There is sadly no equivalent of
Frank de Boer pinging them in in training and telling Martin Kelly he’s shite before starting him in a Premier League game, but there is plenty of supposedly inside information surrounding
10) Lackadaisical versus Luton
‘Abramovich made the final call to sack Lampard…after seeing no real signs of improvement in the FA Cup win over Luton’ – Martin Lipton,
Little over a fortnight after suggesting that only ‘an absolute car crash in the next few weeks, a drop into the nether regions of the Prem table’ or ‘an embarrassing FA Cup exit’ would seal Lampard’s fate at Chelsea, the Deputy Head of Sport at the nation’s best-selling newspaper is here to state that dropping from 9th to 9th in the Premier League table and beating Luton to book an FA Cup fifth-round date with Barnsley was the final