For how long will clubs keep making The Frank Lampard Mistake with either him or one of his peers? JohnnyTheNic despairs.
All those who thought Frank Lampard was obviously not the man to lead Everton to a new dawn were proved right last week as he left his third job in four-and-a-half years.
How galling this must be for those poor saps who are good managers but who don’t enjoy the executive privilege that Lampard has clearly had lavished on him based on nothing other than his reputation as a player. He is, in that sense, emblematic of where we are as a country: a faux meritocracy where your name still gets you further than your talent.
This is why you go to lower-league clubs. You go to learn. You manage lower down the pyramid to develop a style and a direction and to learn how you go about delivering that vision. You make mistakes, you do good things and you learn the business of management. Look at Thomas Frank. He never played professionally but has been in one coaching role or another since the late 90s. He’s got an enormous level of experience to draw on in a way that makes a mockery of Lampard’s managerial CV. Okay, Brentford are run infinitely better than Everton, but they show this addiction to the big name is all too often very misplaced and there are less famous but far better operators are out there.
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