Given the men’s team she found herself linked with a few years ago was also a basket case, Emma Hayes would probably take a dim view of the idea that Chelsea should have put her, rather than Frank Lampard, in charge of their men’s team these past six weeks.
That previous link, you might recall, was with Wimbledon, who were third bottom of League One and sinking like a stone in February 2021, when it was reported that they had condescended to consider her for their shortlist to replace manager Glyn Hodges, who’d just been shown the door.