Frank Lampard has admitted he was “out of order” after sparking a post-match melee following Coventry’s 1-1 draw at Southampton.<\/p>\n
Saints fans had showered the Sky Blues boss with chants and branded him a “s*** Steven Gerrard” in the latter stages of the match.<\/p>\n
And after the full-time whistle, Lampard went onto the pitch and repeatedly gestured to the home supporters, which led to players reacting.<\/p>\n
“I was probably emotional,” said Lampard. “The fans had given me a bit in the last 10 minutes and I went on the pitch to give them a bit back.<\/p>\n
“It was really out of order but I wouldn\u2019t have had as long in this game if I wasn\u2019t sometimes emotional on the pitch, and not a bad bloke off it.<\/p>\n
“I was very proud of the players and then it got a bit heated.<\/p>\n
“Not every game can be shake hands and smile. We live for this game to be emotional.<\/p>\n
“I have no problem with their players or fans. This is a very good football club and I have always liked it.<\/p>\n
“They might not have that back for me tonight but that is fine. Nothing is meant in this game, we both want to win. I was hyped because of what my players had done.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m not a robot. I had 10 minutes of that and I think I\u2019m allowed to have a little moment.”<\/p>\n
Lampard had been forced to deal with a sickness bug in his squad \u2013 which ruled out first-choice trio Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Bobby Thomas and Liam Kitching.<\/p>\n
His table-toppers took the lead in the first half as Ephron Mason-Clark nodded in Victor Torp\u2019s cross, but were forced to hold on in the second half after Jay Dasilva had been dismissed.<\/p>\n
Dasilva thundered into Welington\u2019s shin 85 seconds after the restart, and despite Nathan Wood\u2019s first Saints goal heading his side level, Southampton could not find a winner.<\/p>\n
Southampton controlled things after gaining a man advantage but goalkeeper Carl Rushworth made good saves to deny Irish pair Finn Azaz and Ryan Manning. The hosts ended with 23 shots, but only seven on target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Lampard has admitted he was “out of order” after sparking a post-match melee following Coventry’s 1-1 draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-202971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}