Frank, during the worst day of his managerial career Frank Lampard's Coventry. Every time I hear Coventry described as such, I roll my eyes into my head and remind myself of the time that Sky turned football into a game all about individuals rather than about teams. That isn't his fault of course but Frank Lampard was one of the huge players of that particular time.

Russell Martin Will Not Be Managing Either Team Today In the normal scheme of things, when you go to Carrow Road in the Championship, you are going to one of the teams up near the top of the division who will be challenging for promotion. Norwich have always been one of the yo-yo teams before Leicester on ourselves got in on the act but they are parachute payment free now and having made a succession of bad decisions over the past couple of seasons are languishing in 23rd place, even lower than Portsmouth.

Championship Golden Boot Here I Come Birmingham City, freshly promoted out of League 1 are the visitors to St Mary’s this afternoon, in a game where we find out if Tonda Eckert can deal with the adversity that we happened upon last week at Millwall. Friday morning arrived with reports beginning to do the rounds that Tonda would be given the permanent job, which is what happened in the evening, with him signing a deal until the end of next season, which is when the parachute payments run out, so Sport Republic have put all the eggs in this particular basket.