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This isn’t anti-Everton sentiment, but I bloody love seeing Frank Lampard’s Everton getting beaten and I’d love for them to go down with him as manager. There, I’ve said it.

I’d want the same for any club managed by Mr Lampard right now. It’s not anti-Frank as a person either; I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice fella. It’s what he represents.

My Lampard antipathy is rooted in the fact that this was a job that he ought never to have been given and was not qualified in any way to do and was only given because he’s Frank Lampard, ex-top footballer. Same goes for the Chelsea job. While that sort of over-promotion of someone because they’re a famous name is less common in football now than it once was, the fact it still happens needs calling out.

Anyone who had Frank’s short nearly four-year managerial CV who wasn’t Frank Lampard would never have been anywhere near that job. Firstly, because managing Derby County and Chelsea is not a grounding to pull Everton out of a spiral of decline; fighting relegation is a skill and you need some experience to draw and great man-management to motivate the players to do it.

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The fact he fell out with some Chelsea players in relatively short order and had to use Petr Cech as an intermediary should have been a warning sign to Everton that those essential man-management skills are probably not his strong point. That within weeks he was publicly questioning whether Everton players had the bollocks for the fight, only