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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    Copying, cutting and pasting can be complicated.
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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    The Coventry players and fans celebrate Tatsuhiro Sakamoto’s winning goal at Oxford (Eddie Keogh/Getty Images) “A typical Championship game,” Lampard calls it afterwards, disappointed that his team lost control at spells during the second half but delighted by the way they responded after being...
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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    “It’s a been a similar story here. We were playing really well in a 4-3-3, then we lost (Ephron) Mason-Clark with an injury, which left me with only one experienced winger, and we had to change. If we didn’t change, I don’t think the team would have been as strong. So we changed, adapted and...
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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    Mark Robins got Coventry agonisingly close to last season’s FA Cup final (Ian Kington/AFP via Getty Images) He started out at Coventry playing a back four, but the turnaround in results followed a switch to three at the back. That was not Lampard’s intention when he arrived, but he feels it is...
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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    The Lampard experience at Coventry has been the opposite. They were only two points clear of the relegation zone when he took over. Saturday’s victory took them up to fifth. They have won 11 of his first 18 Championship games in charge, but the trend is more impressive than that. After taking 12...
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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    Lampard prefers the challenges of football management to media work (Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) Lampard was on a sticky wicket, given the popularity of his predecessor. In just over seven years in charge, Robins led Coventry to promotion from League Two to League One, then to the Championship...
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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    It’s Friday morning and, in a small room at Coventry’s training ground in the Warwickshire countryside, Lampard is reflecting on his first three months in the job. He is really enjoying it, he says. “Coming in mid-season — and I’d done it before at Everton — brings a lot of challenges to work...
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    The Athletic - Lampard article - part 1

    The rejuvenation of Frank Lampard at Coventry: “This is what I love doing the most” Oliver Kay The board goes up, signalling five minutes of stoppage time, and Frank Lampard looks nervous. He has spent the afternoon prowling his technical area, back and forth, but now his pace quickens, arms...
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    We look poor

    Nick? Bet’s still on if you’re feeling brave.
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    We look poor

    Fair enough, I think it’ll be tight.
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    We look poor

    We won’t get relegated, but I’ll bet either of you £25 that Stoke finish above us. Food bank if I win. Happy to be wrong.
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    Lati

    I’m not laughing.
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