Chelsea are taking a huge punt on Frank Lampard. For all we know, he could be a new Pep Guardiola or Zinedine Zidane, but has the heart ruled the head in appointing a man with precisely one year's managerial experience and it being in the second tier of English football?
For now, the fans, who never took to Mauricio Sarri, will celebrate the appointment of "one of their own." In their minds, the bright and articulate Lampard is rightly a much-loved club icon after 649 appearances and, among many trophies, three Premier League titles as a player.