Chelsea boss Frank Lampard hailed for touchline passion after rows with Jose Mourinho and Jurgen Klopp
Frank Lampard seems to be doing his best to fall out with his fellow managers - and former teammate Trevor Sinclair his loving it!
The Chelsea manager exchanged heated words with Jose Mourinho during their Carabao Cup clash at Tottenham on Wednesday night.
Mourinho appeared to be telling his former player to quieten down, and offered Lampard some advice about touchline etiquette after the match.
The Blues boss also has a rivalry simmering with Jurgen Klopp.
The pair were involved in a heated exchange at the end of last season, while barbs have been traded between them over Chelsea's summer spending.
Lampard is early into his managerial career, and does not boast the experience or level of success that Mourinho and Klopp do.
But, according to his old West Ham pal Sinclair, it is great to see the 42-year-old show his passion in the dugout.
“I like the fact Frank stands up for himself. I think he’s his own man,” Sinclair told talkSPORT.
“He’s got to be looked upon by his players that he cares. I think that’s the reaction, from a players’ point of view, I want to see my manager arguing with an opposition manager if he’s giving it loads.
“I want to see him sticking up for us like he cares for it. I think Frank’s done that.
“He’s not going for little managers because we have seen it with Klopp. He doesn’t care.
“Frank’s done everything in the game as a player. If he wants to emulate someone like (Carlo) Ancelotti, he has to stand his ground in the technical box and I think he’s doing that superbly well.”
When Lampard took over the Chelsea job there were some question marks over his credentials due only one season as a manager with Derby County.
The Blues finished fourth last season but the pressure will intensify in the 2020/21 campaign with more than £200million spent on players.
Sinclair doesn’t think this will faze Lampard, though.
He said: “He’s had adversity surrounding him from when he’s a young player. I remember him in the West Ham team when he was making his breakthrough season. I have to be honest, he was on fire.
“In training we could see it. The way he played his games and he was scoring goals for fun.
“The West Ham fans were still abusing him because they thought he’d been given a leg up because of his old man and because of Harry (Redknapp) being his uncle and it couldn’t be further from the truth. He worked his socks off."