It’s interesting to deconstruct and to actually to look at the reactions and the dynamic, there has been a change this time.
Ultimately it came down to results to my mind, yes we know the personalities involved don’t like the board or Moshiri, we’ve been a financial basket case for years, we’ve made bad signings and bad appointments in the past, but I’d suggest no one would give a flyer about that if Lampard had got results from Bourmouth on - it would all be hunky dory.
Up until this point the managers have been the lightening rod the buffer or ire between the manager and administration. From Martinez right the way up to Lampard. Something changed though and I honestly, beleive it was Lampard his profile, the cult of celebrity and te perceived was “he got us” - there was so much good will weirdly for the man, that even when it became clear he was a bad manager and not up to the task, no one could get angry at him - that had to go somewhere and the leaders of the protest groups channelled it toward the board, not wholly incorrectly, but in a poorly timed, unweildly, incoherent, polarisingand uncontrollable way. But it was a reaction to results In the main and misplaced tension by the fans, we are football fans at our core. But the Lampard lightening rod thing is unique up to this point.
This is the first time the manager wasn’t the lightening rod and to be honest the administartion was lost, they hedgehogged it, leaked stuff and we were caught in a vacuum of the being afraid to act on Lampard around fear in the reaction.
The end result is both the administration and the protests through cival war and the unleashing of uncontrollable forces, compleatley undermined what ultimately was the only objective the welfare of the club, both can hold their hands up to my mind about the culpability of their actions in terms of the direct impact on the well-being of the club. There are loads of uncomfortable truths to go around,
