Tribal Football
·2 January 2021
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·2 January 2021
Chelsea boss Frank Lampard insists he'll never walk away from the job.
He also insisted that plenty of trophy winning teams, like Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, went through bumpy periods themselves before finding glory.
Lampard said: "I enjoy pressure. If I didn't enjoy it I would not have got back into this, or I would walk away at the first chance, and that's never ever going to be something that I would do.
“The first person that puts pressure on me is me. I do that all the time, for good and for bad.
“I take it on. I don't mind it. That's how I am. Maybe my wife will tell you how I react to pressure better than I do. But I don't kick the dog!"
The Chelsea manager added: “It doesn't mean you are always happy. I'm not as happy right now as I was when we beat Leeds last month and we were on a 16 game unbeaten run. That' s normal.
“But it makes me focus on the job. You learn a lot more in defeat or in tough moments. You have to review more, look at yourself more, look at every little tiny percentage, and I like doing that. That makes you better as a coach and as a person.
“It's a different level of pressure from when you are a player, and that's something I had to handle as soon as I stepped into management. Because you take the pressure on from more angles, and rightly so."