Simon Jordan slaughters Everton boss Frank Lampard live on talkSPORT for recent comments
Simon Jordan has blasted Frank Lampard for his comments on managers being sacked live on talkSPORT, accusing the Everton man of “self-serving crap”.
Lampard spoke during his pre-match press conference this week about sacking culture and said he didn’t like it, but Jordan didn’t like that he chose to call it out after benefitting from it in the past.
Speaking live on talkSPORT [19 October,12:42] Jordan went on a rant about how Lampard should be thankful the culture is how it is, or he’d be in the lower leagues having to earn his way to the Premier League rather than having the journey he had into management.
“You get an effective leader in to do an effective job. If in 18 months time, or a year’s time or in Watford’s case three months time you haven’t seen an effective outcome you change it,” he said.
“Yet football seems to think it’s immune from that. And what you get is self-serving crap from people like Frank Lampard, sitting there saying ‘oh you know, I get to come in..’.
“People like you get gigs because the industry changes the way it does, and jobs come up. Otherwise you would be waiting for years and years and years.
“You’d have to do an apprenticeship in the leagues below you to get an opportunity to be in the Premier League if this cycle of changing managers didn’t exist. So don’t cry about the system, when you are a beneficiary of the system when it suits you.
“And when you’re not a beneficiary of it because your performance – your performance – hasn’t been good enough, that you cite it as an industry that is unfair and unruly.
“All of the upside and none of the downside. I don’t think this is right and I don’t think Frank Lampard is right to make these observations.”
Uncalled for
Lampard was simply saying what many people are thinking, that the culture of sacking managers and handing their jobs to other people before it’s even available isn’t nice.
The fact Lampard has benefitted from the culture being in place doesn’t mean he has to like it, and Jordan himself later went on to say that he didn’t like the culture either.
But Lampard may have been the wrong man to put the message out there that it’s wrong because he’s benefitted from it quite heavily in the past to get the Chelsea and Everton jobs.
Jordan went in hard on Lampard despite agreeing with his message, so it seems to be a case of right message wrong messenger.
As it stands Everton fans are delighted with Lampard being the man in charge and it’s well known that Jordan doesn’t like him, so we’ll just have to get used to him having his digs every now and then while he’s our man at Goodison.