Frank Lampard looks to his first club, West Ham, and his uncle Harry Redknapp for inspiration as Everton battle to stay up and bid to become a proper Premier League force.
Lampard’s Everton are at a ‘critical’ juncture as they face his former club, Chelsea, on Sunday with six games left in which to protect a proud record of being in the top flight since 1954. Everton are in the bottom three with two games in hand over Burnley and Leeds.
The Everton manager is idolised at Chelsea as the club’s record goalscorer and their manager for 18 months before Thomas Tuchel arrived and won the Champions League.