Any moment from now, former Paris St-Germain Manager, Thomas Tuchel, will be appointed to take over from Frank Lampard who after 18 months in charge at Stamford Bridge was fired Monday afternoon.
Lampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week’s defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.
His final game was Sunday’s 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.
Lampard was appointed on a three-year contractwhen he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.
The former Chelsea midfielder guided the Blues to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leedsin early December put the club top of the Premier League.
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John McSeveney s spell as Barnsley manager was short and not especially sweet, but one he looked back on as a crucial part of a learning process which helped keep him involved in football for a further 30 years.
The Oakwell boss between September 1971 and October 1972 – a particularly testing time in the club’s history – the Scotsman, who has died aged 89, settled in the town. A well as having successful spells as assistant manager at Rotherham and Sheffield United, McSeveney’s work took him as far afield as Ireland, Guyana and the United Arab Emirates, but he always returned to Barnsley.
Born in another mining town, Shotts, which lies halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, he worked as a pit mechanic during the early days of a football career which began at Hamilton Academical.
Sunderland: 17 October 1951 â 5 June 1955
SAFC career 38 appearances / 4 goals.
Club historian Rob Mason pays tribute.
We were saddened to hear that John McSeveney passed away on Saturday 12 December, at the age of 89. John was a winger who came to Sunderland from Hamilton Academical in 1951.
While playing for Sunderland in the 1950s McSeveney also had a job at Wearmouth Colliery where the Stadium of Light now stands. Having debuted in a 1-0 win at Manchester United John explained to Red and White in 2006 that after that match he travelled back to his native Scotland to collect his belongings and when met on his return by team-mate Billy Bingham, he went to a dance at the Rink in Sunderland and on that very evening met Joyce who was to become his wife of over 50 years.