The best Premier League season or just the most random? We’ll see

06.04.2023 - 11:11 theguardian.com

W hat exactly is going on? Did Roy Hodgson returning to Crystal Palace begin a chain of events whereby all football will slowly but surely go back in time.

Premier League: the Benjamin Button years. Frank Lampard is heading back to Chelsea, Leicester are considering Martin O’Neill.

What next? Gerry Francis at Spurs? Roy Evans to push Liverpool back up the table? Will Harry Redknapp and Frank Lampard Sr be in the away dugout at Craven Cottage on Saturday for West Ham’s trip to Fulham?

Is it just easier to hire a manager whose laptop is already connected to the wifi or at least knows where the toilets are? Here’s hoping O’Neill doesn’t tip up at Filbert Street for his first game.

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Frank Lampard believes a love-hate mentality, fuelled by social media and akin to politics, is behind the whirlwind nature of managerial changes in the Premier League and that the situation will calm down only if expectations of those in the dugout become more “reasonable”.

Chelsea's James and Mount ruled out for the remainder of the season: Lampard

Chelsea defender Reece James and midfielder Mason Mount will miss the rest of the season due to injuries, interim manager Frank Lampard said on Tuesday (Apr 25).

Rodrygo brace finishes the job for Real Madrid as Chelsea make Champions League exit

Chelsea's last hope of salvaging their season slipped away as Real Madrid completed a comfortable aggregate victory to dump Frank Lampard's side out of the Champions League.

Chelsea out of Champions League after Rodrygo finishes the job for Real Madrid

Chelsea’s last hope of salvaging their season slipped away as Real Madrid completed a 4-0 aggregate victory to dump Frank Lampard’s side out of the Champions League.

In the bowels of Stamford Bridge, it seems, there isn’t much looking glass

Football Daily has spent the last few days enjoying a right good laugh at the expense of Chelsea co-owner Todd D’oh!ly. Yes, he’s sitting on $5.3bn, which is about £500, and we’re wrestling with the big questions of 2023 (bread or spread?). But just look at the state of this philanthropic multi-billionaire! As Chelsea prepare for a season-defining Big Cup match against Real Madrid, most of the talk is not of the players, or Frank Lampard’s win percentage in his second spell as manager, or even his draw percentage. It’s D’oh!ly, whose dressing-room pep talk after the defeat by Brighton on Saturday has leaked faster than b@nterous first-leg predictions from his overenthusiastic mouth. D’oh!ly reportedly called Chelsea’s season “embarrassing”, after which, according to the National Grid, there was a surge in pot/kettle analogies, and singled out one player – bought for big money in the last 12 months, and yes this stuff does write itself – for criticism. In the bowels of Stamford Bridge, it seems, there isn’t much looking glass. D’oh!ly’s combination of enthusiasm, power and ignorance are in danger of setting USA! USA!! USA!!!-UK football relations back 20 years, and they weren’t exactly thriving before he invited Jesse Marsch to hold his watery beer.