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In the heady summer of 2018, when everything was new, exciting and just a little daunting, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard exchanged as many messages as they had during all the years they spent as team-mates. As players, they had seemed to be living parallel lives and now, almost in unison, they were taking their first steps in management: Gerrard at Lampard at County. Encountering new challenges at every turn, whether on the training pitch, in the transfer market or behind the scenes, they messaged back and forth constantly, discussing what Lampard called “the mad life of management”. It is a crazily volatile business: Lampard took to the top of the on December 5, 2020, but was out of a job seven weeks later.

Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard at England training in 2003 (Photo: Phil Cole via Getty Images)



Both Gerrard and Lampard will have learned far more over the past four years than they could have imagined.



Gerrard and Lampard will be wiser for what they have been through at Villa and Everton respectively.


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