{"id":872354,"date":"2026-08-29T06:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:24:10","slug":"frank-lampard-coventry-boss-on-his-managerial-inspirations-and-proving-doubters-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872354\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lampard: Coventry boss on his managerial inspirations and proving doubters wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Football Interview will be available on BBC One at 12:45 every Saturday during the Premier League season, as well as on BBC iPlayer, BBC Football YouTube and the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the second episode of the new season, available on Saturday, 29 August, musician Tom Grennan sits down with Coventry City manager Frank Lampard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a player, Frank Lampard worked under some of the biggest managers in the game, including Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Guus Hiddink and Rafael Benitez &#8211; not to mention his uncle Harry Redknapp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eight years into his own managerial career, the Coventry City boss cited Mourinho and Ancelotti as the main influences on his style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jose and Carlo are like both sides of the coin,&#8221; the 48-year-old told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jose was very on you, he transmitted his self-confidence, but if you stepped out of line or did something wrong, you&#8217;d feel the strength of him, whereas Carlo was chilled and calm. When you look back, you go, &#8216;that&#8217;s a nice environment to work in&#8217;. It felt like he trusted you. So I try and take little snippets. I&#8217;m probably somewhere in the middle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lampard played under Mourinho and Ancelotti at Chelsea and won the Premier League and FA Cup with them both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it is important to strike a balance between the pair as he targets more success with Coventry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I start to sometimes go towards being Jose, sometimes I go and be a bit more Carlo,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve learnt that young managers, you come in and feel like you have to to criticise a bad performance or say something about an individual that turns up late. The more I&#8217;ve done this job, I realise that they&#8217;re all humans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes a lad comes in late, you don&#8217;t know the back story. And so trying to jump on him and being this hard man manager, you&#8217;ve got to be more Carlo. But then if you&#8217;re a bit more relaxed sometimes and people are on the pitch, not doing their job, sometimes you&#8217;ve got a bit more Jose.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Football Interview will be available on BBC One at 12:45 every Saturday during the Premier League season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-872354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}