Frank Lampard interview: Misconceptions of British managers, learning to be 'tough', challenges for Coventry

In the breakout room overlooking Coventry City’s Sky Lodge training ground — where there are sofas, a table tennis table, a dartboard and a big screen for an Xbox — Frank Lampard is reflecting with The Athletic about leading his side to the Championship title.“There’s a general misconception with British managers — because the British public have lived and breathed us as players — that if we’re ex-players, we get jobs because of our playing careers. We go and cheerlead a group or try to create a vibe like the old days we might have had and we just go, ‘Go on, lads, out you go and play’.Advertisement