One on One | Lampard on pushing for promotion and life in management

28 Jan 2026 · 26 min · 8 chapters

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In short

Frank Lampard’s “One on One” with Sky Sports about Coventry’s bounce-back after playoff heartbreak, his approach to promotion, and what it’s like transitioning from player to manager. He discusses resilience, constant tension in management, and keeping focus on “the next game” rather than the big picture.

Key claims

Coventry’s culture and work ethic are driving results; they didn’t overhaul the squad but stayed with the same group; parachute-style financial advantages make promotion harder; English coaches can succeed but need the right club “tools,” and modern job security is harsh.

Notable examples

Coventry’s late Sunderland semi-final loss; Lampard’s earlier Derby playoff final experience; his West Ham debut vs Tottenham (1996) and a photo in his office; Chelsea dressing-room culture with John Terry, Didier Drogba, and Petr Cech; Ipswich’s energy and Burnley’s mid-table resilience.

Guests

Frank Lampard (Coventry City manager), interviewed by Joe Tomlinson and Juliet Farrington (hosts).

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Chapters

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Resilience in Management

0:00 to 0:51

Explore the importance of resilience for players and managers in football.

“Would you have liked to have managed you?”

Frank Lampard's Journey

1:06 to 3:20

Discuss Frank Lampard's transition from player to manager and his career highlights.

“Changes at Chelsea and Manchester United have given us the chance to put out more episodes than usual.”

Playoff Heartbreak and Recovery

3:20 to 6:05

Lampard reflects on the playoff semi-final defeat and how it shaped the team's approach.

“I really felt for them because they gave everything and the fans and club, everything.”

The Challenge of Promotion

6:05 to 7:10

An insight into the challenges facing Coventry in their bid for promotion.

“And you don't really want to go through the playoffs again as a manager, as a coach, would you?”

Coventry's Rich History

7:10 to 9:40

Lampard shares his thoughts on Coventry's historical significance and recent struggles.

“so I try not to get drawn into your questions here I'm like what's the next game what's the next game what's the next game rather than the big picture but we're in a good place.”

The Emotional Weight of Management

9:40 to 11:40

Exploring the emotional challenges that come with being a football manager.

“and the fighting back of this club from where it was.”

Reflections on Success and Resilience

11:40 to 14:03

Lampard discusses his experiences and how they shape his coaching philosophy.

“I was fortunate in a way because the big parts of my career at Chelsea I played very regularly.”

Frank Lampard Discusses Life at Coventry

14:03 to 22:50

Frank Lampard shares insights about his management experience at Coventry City, touching on team dynamics, personal reflections, and the challenges of coaching.

“My job, unfortunately, brings constant tension because you're always reflecting on the last one if it wasn't great, but really concerned about getting it right for the next one.”
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0:02Juliette:Were you easy to manage? Would you have liked to have managed you?

0:06Frank Lampard:Yeah, generally I was. I'm quite a resilient person from my long playing career. Every player, you know, you have tough moments, tough challenges. You have to be resilient. It's part of our game. If you aren't, it will knock you down too many times. Of course now we want to go up automatically because of where we sit. But I also know there's so many points to fight for. So I try not to get drawn into all your questions here. I'm like, what's the next game? What's the next game? What's the next game? Rather than the big picture. But we're in a good place. My job, unfortunately, brings constant tension because you're always reflecting on the last one if it wasn't great, but really concerned about getting it right for the next one.

0:46Frank Lampard:And that's the life I live. Hello and welcome back to One on One from Sky Sports, the podcast where we chat with football's biggest names. I'm Joe Tomlinson.

0:56Juliette:And I'm Juliet Farrington. And Joe, it's the first time we've been together in 2026. We're nearly at the end of January. It's been quite some month, hasn't it, for both of us?

1:05Frank Lampard:Yeah, there's been quite a lot of breaking news to react to. Changes at Chelsea and Manchester United have given us the chance to put out more episodes than usual. So if you missed our chats with Leo Resinia, Harry Maguire, Pedro Neto, amongst others, do go and check them out. But Jules, today you've been to see one of England's golden generation.

1:27Juliette:Yeah, from years gone by. You don't really need to explain much about Frank Lampard, the player. One of England's brightest stars, won so much, everything with Chelsea. But I've got a quiz question for you, Joe. Who do you think he made his West Ham debut against almost to the day, the 31st of January, back in 1996? And I was thinking to myself, what was I doing in 1996? but as a 17-year-old, who did Frank Lampard make his West Ham debut against?

1:57Frank Lampard:Stab in the dark and going Spurs.

2:00Juliette:Commentary. What? Where he is now. Exactly. Yes.

2:03Frank Lampard:Simulation. We are living in a simulation.

2:05Juliette:It is, isn't it? Just things sometimes work out this way. You'll hear in the interview that he has a photo of him coming on in that game, hanging in his office where he is now as manager. So it was great to sit down with him and have a chat with him at the club that now he calls home. And over the course of our conversation, we talked about what it's like going from player to manager, how he hopes the culture around the club at Coventry will see them over the line to promotion to the Premier League, what it's been like as an English coach, as a manager in football at the moment. But we started with the disappointment of last season when Coventry lost to that late Sunderland header in the playoff semifinals and how they've managed to bounce back to sit at the top of the championship.

2:49Juliette:So here is my conversation, my one-on-one with Frank Lampard.

3:20Frank Lampard:unbelievable playoff pain even for the playoffs this is off the scale

3:26Juliette:frank thanks for joining us i know it's a busy time the schedule is a little bit crazy but can we just go back to that playoff semi-final defeat at sunderland and what did you do straight after that that's allowed you to have the season that you're having right now well well um it was a lot

3:46Frank Lampard:of disappointment straight after it because I think we managed to achieve in the second half of the season to make that big run into the playoffs. I think to play really well over both games doesn't make it any easier playing well but in reflection you can be quite happy with the strides we've taken but obviously the disappointment was huge and I felt really a lot for the players. I really felt for them because they gave everything and the fans and club, everything. So that burden is there when it's fresh but I've been in this game a long time. I understand successful moments, I understand difficult moments.

4:19Frank Lampard:And when you reflect and go see what we did, it was more about how can we come back, how can we have another go, how can we try and improve in every way. So I think it was a good reflection time over the summer for me. We didn't make huge changes to the squad over the summer, probably relative to what other teams did, more business, et cetera, but we kept a lot of the same group and we just said, right, from pre-season, let's work hard. I don't think we expected what we've got, but we were very determined to just go again.

4:45Juliette:But having experienced playoff setback before that Sunderland game, because you experienced it with Derby in the final itself, did you react in a similar way? Because the first time you had experienced it, it probably would have been harder than the second time you've experienced it.

5:03Frank Lampard:I found them both tough. I mean, after Derby, I obviously left and went on to Chelsea from there, so I didn't go back as such. It was a similar feeling, if I'm honest, because this job's the biggest difference between player to manager is that you feel the burden of responsibility so much. So I had a really good relationship with the owner at Derby and similarly here at Coventry, and I know how much passion they both have for their clubs. I understand the fan bases of both clubs, and you feel that. So there's a selfish thing too for yourself. You want to win matches and have success. But the Derby one, we come up, it's a really strong Aston Villa team, and the differences in the final were that, and that loses you the game.

5:40Frank Lampard:And this one, it just felt like, because we'd only been in since early December, the strides that we'd taken, I quite quickly felt a sense of pride in the work done from the group to get that close. And I know we were very unlucky in that semi-final. So it's my job to not be too despondent. I'm the first one that has to react and react hopefully positively. So by the time we come back to pre-season, it was, OK, let's go again. Where can we improve? What can we do? And me, staff, players. and we have improved.

6:09Juliette:Definitely. And you don't really want to go through the playoffs again as a manager, as a coach, would you? Because of what you've experienced. You know, you want to get there straight away this time.

6:19Frank Lampard:Well, now I do. If I had sat at the sights at the start of the season, this league is very difficult. Let's be really brutally honest about it. Parachute teams come down with a huge, huge advantage over others financially. And now this year we probably have four parachute teams because Sheffield United remained in the league. We also have maybe two teams that came up from League One that are acting like parachute teams, but they're having the right go. The Hollywood teams. Yeah, they are. And fair play, this is great. This is a part of the championship story. It's exciting for everyone watching, but for us, we knew that it would be a challenge to try and get into playoff positions again.

6:56Frank Lampard:So what we've done in the first half of the season has been great because it's work coming together and we've got ourselves in this position. And of course now we want to go up automatically league is where we sit but I also know there's so many points to fight for so there's a long way so I try not to get drawn into your questions here I'm like what's the next game what's the next game what's the next game rather than the big picture but we're in a good place.

7:18Juliette:No I know that but when you think the big picture is it's been 25 years since Coventry were last in the Premier League you would have played against them do you remember any of those moments?

7:27Frank Lampard:Well I remember making my debut against Coventry at West Ham I came on with Gordon Strachan and he was 35 or so and I was 17 and I've got the picture in my office. You will not find an older and a younger person. Gordon Strzokin's coming on and this is Frank Lombard. Of course I remember growing up watching Coventry in the FA Cup final. It was one of my first FA Cup finals in my memory. Playing against Coventry and just having an understanding that they were an old League One, you know, Premier League team as we call it now, but Division One. So I followed the story from the outside But also now I'm doing this job, more importantly, I feel the desire, I feel the tension, the fans, I want to get back there, quite rightly.

8:07Frank Lampard:And we're probably fed into that by having this start of the season. So everyone's getting excited and we just have to stay very focused.

8:14Juliette:It's been through a lot though, hasn't it? This club has been through a lot and I was thinking of 2019 and it didn't seem to be that long ago, but it is considering what's happened in the world since 2019. League One, ground sharing, eventually come back, lockdown. And you've been through a lot as well. So it's like as if some things just align, don't they, at the right time for different reasons. But it gives you the perfect opportunity.

8:41Frank Lampard:Yeah. And I haven't lived that commentary story, but I'm fully aware of it and you can feel it. And parts of it are a great story. You know, the disappointment, the sadness of the situation to come down. I didn't live that, but some people who work here are fans and they lived it. and now I'm in touch with the fans so I understand how they feel and what we're trying to do I suppose my detachment from that is to try and prove the real positivity because when a club's had such a hard time and even close playoff final close FA Cup semi-final in recent years not to mention even going down to League 2 you can have a feeling of oh we don't quite do it and we might fail again and I really want to try and make sure us in the house we try and stay really positive with just a practical football nature of it.

9:24Frank Lampard:We want to make these fans happy. It would be amazing because of what the story is. But we have to probably take emotion out of it and just focus on what's really in hand. But what we do know is that if we do manage to get something really positive this year, then it's just a beautiful part of all the story and the fighting back of this club from where it was.

9:43Juliette:And how would that make you feel? Because you've been through it as well. You've been through the mill in that space of time too.

9:50Frank Lampard:What, in the twi -

9:51Juliette:Well, when you look at Derby and then you go to Chelsea and then you go to Everton and then back to Chelsea. Yeah, sure.

9:58Frank Lampard:I think with management, and I think he's never been more clear with management of what is success and what's relative. I mean, my jobs with Derby when I went there was to try and, you know, we had some financial problems, was to try and make the playoffs and get them. It's understandable you could not win a final. And you have to understand it as a football manager. I went to Chelsea and we made the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. So my story is different. and you learn from good and you learn from things that don't go your way. But I don't feel like I've got a big handbrake on me or shackles on me because of anything.

10:31Frank Lampard:I've been long enough as a football player, I've had lots of success, fortunate to be part of good teams. But I also remember the things that didn't go right. But I part them now. All I think about, what do I do out there every day with these players? What's my messaging? What's the training? And how can I be a leader that hopefully takes us to where we want to get to? and I don't reflect too much on too much other stuff.

10:49Juliette:Maybe not reflect them, but have you become more resilient?

10:52Frank Lampard:I'm quite a resilient person. From my long playing career, there are many, many things. Every player, you know, you have tough moments, tough challenges and you have to be resilient. It's part of our game. If you aren't, it will knock you down too many times. I kind of like that stuff. I have a kind of always a real core of wanting to not just prove people wrong. That sounds too cynical, but in this world, with so many opinions around, I actually want to just focus on my job, do a job that I'm confident I'm pretty good at and hopefully get success. I'm a resilient man, I would say.

11:28Juliette:I remember what you were like as a player. People remember what you were like as a player. Good player. But were you easy to manage? Would you have liked to have managed you?

11:38Frank Lampard:Yeah. Generally, I was. Yeah, generally. I was quite low maintenance. I was fortunate in a way because the big parts of my career at Chelsea I played very regularly. All players want to play, I know that even more now. So I was good with that but what I did, I just trained hard, I didn't like to go to manager's office too much. I would like to think most of my managers would say that I was pretty easy, most, not all. But now I understand it as well, I'm on this side and I think the game has changed. There's modern players, there's different demands, there's different situations, there's agents around players and family and expectations, and it's all slightly changed from my era.

12:17Frank Lampard:And I'm not being a dinosaur saying my era was great and we were different. Has it become harder? For management terms, I would say yes, because every squad now, we hold a squad, it's quite a smaller squad in this league, but it's still 20 or so players. And a tough part of my job is picking 11 and upsetting another 10 every week. It's a really tough part of your job. You know, it's like, you know, your job, another job. You get asked to go to work right through the week, all the tough stuff, and then the good bit comes and you're taken out of it. That's a horrible feeling, and I have to deliver that news.

12:47Frank Lampard:So you've got to try and work as hard and as positively as you can day to day so people are enjoying this environment, enjoying coming to training. And I think we've done a good job of that because we've got a very good culture here of a group that's together. They work really hard out there, and they've seen the success that that can bring so far this season.

13:04Juliette:Do you think Coventry suits you and you suit Coventry? Can a personality match a club 100 %?

13:15Frank Lampard:Well, at this moment it feels yes, because I'm very happy here and hopefully the club are happy with me because of where we sit.

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13:20Juliette:But where you sit is at the top of the championship.

13:23Frank Lampard:We do, and I'm very aware of that. And it's important to be positive in life. And I'm absolutely positive because I know the work we did when we came in here. It was challenging. There was a lack of confidence. Mark Robbins has done an incredible job. He's one of, if not the greatest managers of this club. I've got no problem with that. But when we came in, you could feel that it was a difficult moment. And we've worked. And I'm not taking this all from me, for sure, because the staff that I came in with, with Chris and Joe coming in together, and the players and everyone in the building who has stepped up and seen this sort of curve that we've been on, everybody deserves credit for that.

13:59Frank Lampard:But I also have to understand that the minute we drop or we get sort of too confident, oh, I love Coventry and Coventry loves me. That's not a good situation. My job, unfortunately, brings constant tension because you're always reflecting on the last one if it wasn't great, but really concerned about getting it right for the next one. And that's the life I live. Said that, I am happy. I'm very happy at this club. And to answer your first question, the balance of it feels pretty good. And hopefully at this point we sue each other.

14:24Juliette:Just on Mark Robbins, because as you say, he's held in such high regard and he was here for so long, I don't think anybody expected him to leave. So he goes to Stoke and you come in and you've come up against each other since then. What kind of conversations do you have with him? He's a good guy.

14:40Frank Lampard:Yeah, he's a good guy and that's football. We all know, you live the manager's life, football manager's life. You understand that you're probably not going to stay on your job forever. Unfortunately, that's a reality. Normally, it's not your decision to leave. so I'm you know in my short years I'm already fine with that I've got no problem as when we speak we spoke after both games all the games that we played I think we've played them three times in the league twice and in the FA Cup now and we have good conversations it's fine you know I wish him very well he was speaking to all the players because he's got lots of relationship he was wishing them all the best saying he hopes that we get promoted you know that's very nice and that's it he's a football person and I think he respects opposition as I do so we've sat and chatted a lot after games

15:23Juliette:I just wonder from a wider point of view, because obviously you're here and we've seen Liam Rossini go in at Chelsea, a club you know so well about. We've seen Michael Carrick interim at the moment at Manchester United. And there's been this discussion about whether an English coach will ever win the Premier League. How hard would that be to achieve, just on a wider scale?

15:44Frank Lampard:Well, I wish all coaches well in this league because I know the demands of it. And specifically, of course, I wish English managers well because I am one and I understand it. And how hard it is? Well, firstly, you have to be a club that has the tools to win the Premier League. And not many clubs have that. If you only look at the last years and you go on English manager, hasn't won the Premier League. But you look back a lot of those years when Manchester City have been dominant, where Chelsea were dominant with foreign managers sort of in my era. So there's a lot of you have to have the tools as the manager to be able to do it because the success you can have will only be relative to what you're working with.

16:19Frank Lampard:So you have to be at the minute you look at it and go, Liverpool and Man City had that dominant period where you felt that only they would win the league. Now Arsenal are actually in that equation. So an English manager has to do what everybody else has to do, has to work in every job they've got to try and move up the ladder to potentially get that chance. And we've got some good quality English managers to truly believe that. And I think it's worth over-analyzing. Good coaches, it doesn't matter where they're from, they come and do a good job and they maximise themselves at the jobs that they're working at, whether they're English or foreign, etc.

16:48Frank Lampard:We're blessed that we've got the greatest leagues in the world, in my opinion. The Premier League is the best, and this championship is as exciting as any league in the world. So let's just enjoy it and not focus too much on the individuals.

16:58Juliette:But the one thing you said, there is a core of good English coaches right now, which you are one of them. It does seem that you are being given these opportunities to develop and grow and try and do something really special.

17:11Frank Lampard:Yeah, but then the reality is that now a lot of the clubs in Premier League or in the Championship are owned by foreign ownership of sporting directors that could be from anywhere. And there's a big pool of coaches at every job that probably comes up in line waiting for that job. So us English coaches, we just have to work hard. I don't think I get too caught up in the perception. Why do we get a hard time or why do we get this opportunity? You work hard in this game as I know it. I've worked hard since I started kicking the ball very young to try and have a playing career and then a managerial career.

17:43Frank Lampard:And as I've got a little bit wiser, I've realised not to be too caught up in arguments of who gets this opportunity and why or whatever. Just focus on what you've got in front of you.

17:51Juliette:But it is such a hard job to get. There's only 92. I was talking to your press officer about it. And once you lose your job, it's hard to get back onto it again, isn't it? That cycle.

18:01Frank Lampard:Yeah, it can be. It can be because that's the life that we choose to live. and reaction in the modern day is so harsh. You know, Xabi Alonso is the best coach in the world six months ago and now he's out of his job, so he can't be any good. You know, that's nonsense. There's good coaches doing good work, sometimes good work. It maybe doesn't come through in results. And in this modern world, we're very quick to make changes and all those things. So that is an unfortunate part. We're privileged to do this job. But that has come to the territory. And what I'm happy about being here is that I enjoy coming to work.

18:34Frank Lampard:because I've got some really good people around me and a good group of players. I love working with these players because they make me laugh every day. They've got them really well and they work really hard out there and they want to do well for this club. It's kind of all you can ask for in a way.

18:46Juliette:In what way do they make you laugh?

18:48Frank Lampard:Because they have such a good laugh together down in the dressing room. I hear them all the time. I walk around this building. We're not the biggest training ground so I can hear them pretty much from everywhere. They're either with it sunny. It's not today. They're out there playing cricket out the front after training. They do it in the dressing room. They mess around. Some people I don't think understand it. they're like shouldn't we all be really formal and just think about work and training no have good times enjoy coming to work and then the minute they get on the training pitch any information we give or demands they're really good they want to do it and that's that's uh that's a pleasure to

19:17Juliette:work with is that something then you you've created or have tried to create and you've done in the jobs that you've had so far or is that just summing up the culture and the environment that we're in

19:28Frank Lampard:right now i think it's a bit of both because every group is different in that sense and we've got quite a british core in the group good sense of humor good good well i think we like to think so most of them and that's some of it i would say we've we've created as in we as in myself chris and joe coming in as the news staff predominantly i tried to create that i'm always about work ethic and it's all i talk about is work work work but as i've got why i understand all the moments in between are really important as well because if you don't have a good feeling around the camp and you get difficult results it can become difficult very quickly so you have to gauge the group you're working with.

20:02Frank Lampard:These boys take care of a lot of that themselves. I think they've created this really good group so I just kind of let a lot of that stuff run as long as they train out there and don't go over the line on things I'm fine.

20:12Juliette:But I like that because you're probably the same as a player in the dressing room that you are in at Chelsea and at West Ham. Just maybe not always up to mischief but when you had an opportunity to you would be. Well maybe that,

20:28Frank Lampard:you know, people talk about your playing career and getting to managing. One of the good things I had a lot of experiences as a player, not just on the pitch. And I understand that good culture, as everyone loves to talk about in this modern day, comes in many ways and many shapes. And if I look back to my best times at Chelsea, of course, managers, etc., but I look back at the dressing room and I go, we had an amazing captain in John Terry. We had a really diverse dressing room of players that were leaders in Didier Drogba and Petr Cech and all these people. And yeah, we would have so many laughs in the dressing room and all those things.

20:59Frank Lampard:and whether we'd go near a line, if there was a line anywhere, might happen, but when we went out, we went out to win and we went out to play and we were very, very strong as a group. So there's a lot of people that write about culture and do pretty seminars and talk about culture, but they don't understand it in different ways. And culture's there for one reason, it's there to win. If you have a good culture and you don't win, forget about it. So at this point, we've got a good balance with that. But as I say, we have to always keep on top of it because if you drop it and you don't win, then you have an issue.

21:28Juliette:Yeah, coming to an end, because maybe finish it off on that then, because in a way it's going to play a huge part to what you want to achieve this season, the culture that you have.

21:38Frank Lampard:Yeah, it will do, because there's a lot of stuff. We work a lot on the training round. Tactically, I think we've evolved a lot as a team. I'm not sure the lads get enough credit for that, because we have a lot of games we've played this season where I'm really pleased, because I know the work out there is transferring onto the pitch. But I think to get out of this league, specifically when you're not a parachute team, when I think about teams, I think about the Ipswich story a couple of years ago and I looked at it from the outside and it might just be me, but they've got something good going on there.

22:03Frank Lampard:You could see it from the outside in terms of the energy of the group on the pitch. And I look at certain other teams. I remember when teams like Burnley, we know, doing amazingly in the Premier League and you kind of go, how do they keep coming mid-table when you think they might be down there? And you could see character and everyone has a different version of it and ours has to remain. and that's why I'm big on that and that's why sometimes when the lads make me laugh or I'm a little bit I want to not tell them off or get them in line.

22:25Juliette:Not find them.

22:26Frank Lampard:I have to find the right moments to do those things because I understand how important it is for us and if you're having good personalities in a team that will be winners and leaders like I think we have sort of started to show themselves people like Bobby Thomas etc they've got personality which means he might test me in the week but I know that when we want fighters on the pitch we're one of the first ones to stand up and I love that.

22:48Juliette:Frank it's been an absolute pleasure Thank you for giving me your time. Thanks a lot. Nice to meet you, Jeff. Thanks very much. Thank you.

22:53Frank Lampard:Cheers, thank you. Yeah, thanks, Frank. You hang up first, Jules. But as we recall, Coventry three points clear at the top of the championship. I know they've had a couple of wobbles, but by and large, they have just been sensational this season. And Frank's just a joy to speak to, isn't he? He brings so much energy to a room.

23:09Juliette:Yeah, he's a really good person to talk to. And also, you think he went into Coventry 18, 19 months ago. And look where they were when he went in. and look where they are now. And obviously getting them into that playoff position last season was a huge achievement. And if they go all the way this time around, well, goodness knows what the city will be like because it's 25 years since Coventry were last in the top flight. And it's a fixture for so long in that old first division, that brown kid, the FA Cup winners, and they have been put through the mill in the years in between. But as you were hearing, they put their playoff heartbreak behind them from last season.

23:48Juliette:And as Frank Lampard said, he's keen to make sure they go up first time around this time. And as he talked about it, he's tried to bring his team together, focusing on the culture of the club, a really important part of a team culture, that is, Frank Lampard was telling me, letting his players play cricket after training, having a laugh with them. They certainly test him, as you found out. And I wonder if also Frank Lampard needed this as much as Coventry needed him because he says he's resilient, but you can't help but think that he's been through the mill as well. A little bit bruised maybe by his experiences at Chelsea.

24:21Juliette:At Everton, he was fighting fire. At Derby, they had all sorts of problems there. But for now, he's happy sitting on top of the championship at the club where almost 20 years ago to the day he made his first start as a professional footballer.

24:39Frank Lampard:Love that, Jules. Thanks very much for listening to another one-on-one. Everybody at home, we're going to be back again with another podcast next week. so if you don't already, please do give us a follow so you don't miss it.

24:49Juliette:And you can find our interviews across all the Sky Sports platforms, that's Sky Sports News, across the YouTube channels and on the socials as well. And Joe, you're heading up north, you're heading back to Old Trafford. You've been there quite a lot this season, haven't you? So hopefully you'll be hearing from you and...

25:06Frank Lampard:Michael Carrick, Sir Alex Ferguson 2.0, the guy who is going to change the entire fortunes of this great club. hopefully he will be as entertaining as his football team have been on the pitch anyway. He'll be out next Wednesday. So hopefully, Jules, I'll chat to you then.

25:25Juliette:Hopefully your mood will still be good. See you soon, Joe.

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From the publisher
Juliette has been to Coventry City to chat to Head Coach, Frank Lampard, for this week’s ‘One on One’. Lampard discusses their push for promotion to the Premier League and reveals what he thinks could be their secret weapon this season. We also chat about being an English football manager and he relives his West Ham playing debut as a 17-year-old.

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