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Chelsea manager Lampard: Football suffering same extremes as politics

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard has talked about the changes to football coaching in recent years.

The caretaker is only in charge at the Blues until the end of this season.

With the club likely to appoint Mauricio Pochettino permanently, Lampard was asked for his thoughts on the changing managerial landscape.

“The landscape has changed and, this is generally, we've lost maybe sight of alignment sometimes, maybe expectation sometimes, or reasonable expectation," he told reporters.

"Some of it has been fast-tracked with social media and this open world - like politics, you either hate something or you love it, you're not allowed to be somewhere in between and it feeds into football.

He continued: "You're winning games, ok we love you, but if not, ok we hate you and there's pressure. There are a lot of things that link into that. In terms of me, you say I've been sacked twice and I was fortunate enough to have a career where I never had to have that feeling too much. I got released by Chelsea but I was 34, 35.

"Pretty much every manager will get let go at some point and once it's happened once or twice, it feels a little bit softer than the first time. That's a reality and it will only feel that bit softer if you give everything you can in the circumstances you've got. It's making sure you get the balance right of what's a reasonable expectation and what isn't and that's not just talking about Chelsea."

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