I’d like to think Frank would get the backing of the board and fans if they came here but I’m starting to wonder if even they would get stick if things didn’t go well (not as much as Sarri right now, but enough to hurt them and their legacy).
I think part of the issue is expectations at the moment, I really thought in 15/16 that as a group of fans now used to challenging for honours, we handled that disappointment quite well. But I now think that we’ve actually probably become the most demanding supporters in the country. There are fans in their 20s who have known nothing other than success and view 5th place as disastrous failure (there’s plenty of older fans who think that way too).
Part of me is happy about that collective inability to accept mediocrity and maybe it’s helped fuel further success as a result, but another part of me wonders whether it’s become self entitlement and led to expectations that are never going to be satisfied. I know it’s all relative but there are supporters of 80+ other clubs in the country who would still love to be in our shoes right now.
I guess what I’m saying is, is there literally no low we could suffer under Lampard that’d make us part company with him? I don’t believe there is, and arguably rightly so, however I don’t think even that low would be low enough for me to want to take that risk at the moment. But perhaps that’s me just thinking too negatively and worse case about things.