Everton boss Frank Lampard admits he's leaning on his uncle, Harry Redknapp, as they battle to beat the drop.
Lampard revealed: “I speak regularly to Harry - no matter what the situation. He is always a great voice of reason and experience and he has been in this situation before. It's not like he tells me to do this or that - it's not that kind of advice.
“But I chat to him casually and some of the things he says to me makes you think 'yeah, of course.' With people like him, you find the best things they say are simple. I'm not trying to put Harry down when I say that because it's the absolute opposite. The smartest managers make things very simple. Whenever I speak to him, whether it's 'what do you think about taking the Everton job, Harry? What do you think about the Chelsea job? What do you think about this situation, because you were there with Portsmouth?'
“Those things are easy to bounce off him - and you might get some nuggets of advice. In terms of what the nuggets are, I'll keep them to myself! But it's great though to have him on the end of the phone."
Family has also been important to Lampard away from the business of trying to keep Everton in the top-flight - although he admits that the task is consuming every waking moment.
He said: “Fortunately I have really good people around me in terms of the staff here and family at home. It gives me great perspective.
“The harder bit is when you are not actually playing games and you have a long week, because you think about the job all the time. You need to have real support at home - and I'm fortunate that I have that with my wife and children. I've got four kids, and a couple of them are pretty young, and they make you smile all the time. A couple are a bit older, which is different but great in the same sense - and those things are important."
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