Old and new Chelsea meet with the box-office return of Frank Lampard

Club said former manager’s reappointment is part of their ‘clear and stable plan’ – and apparently they were not joking

GUESS WHO's BACK: Chelsea interim manager Frank Lampard. 

It’s the circle, the circle of life. It moves us all through despair and through hope. Although to be fair, in some cases with a little bit more in the way of the former.

But not today! For he is returned, Chelsea’s own royal blue lion king. As expected, and equally, as massively unexpected, Frank Lampard was unveiled just after lunchtime on Thursday as Chelsea’s new, slightly more permanent caretaker manager.