Frank Lampard to Everton: Video shows ex-Chelsea boss’s classy response to Champions League win

Frank Lampard has been appointed as the new Everton manager on a two-and-a-half-year deal and succeeds the vacancy left behind by Rafael Benitez.

The former Chelsea manager will now sit in the Goodison Park hot-seat just a year after he was sacked as the Blues boss but it is an exciting appointment for the Toffees, who are desparate to rectify their ailing form.

Lampard took over at the London club back in the summer of 2019 and had the tall order of building a squad of players during a transfer embargo in what was his first Premier League managerial appointment.

Yet, it was a bitter-sweet ending for the Blues stalwart.

With Chelsea dropping to ninth in the league, Lampard was sacked at the end of January 2021, after he had failed to satisfy Russian owner Roman Abramovich’s desire to close the gap between the club and the league leaders.

It was a tough time for the man who lives and bleeds Chelsea and truly epitomises the brutality of the football business.

For any coach, a sacking is a difficult thing to take, but Lampard’s emotional attachment to the club he made 648 appearances for perhaps made the news even tougher for him.

That was further compounded when he watched the side he had built go on lift the Champions League trophy the same season.

But while many would be bitter about the sacking, Lampard showed his class in an interview with Gary Lineker ahead of the 2021 FA Cup final, where his former club were defeated by Leicester City 1-0.

Looking back at his time in charge, Lampard spoke candidly and selflessly about his departure, admitting that while it wasn’t nice to leave, the club’s success and the development of some of the younger players was also very important to him.

“Obviously, you never want to lose a