New Chelsea boss Frank Lampard is delighted seeing English managers get their chance.
Lampard's appointment at Chelsea this week has completed a remarkable turnaround as there are now seven English managers in the 20-team top flight, with Dean Smith, Eddie Howe, Graham Potter, Sean Dyche, Roy Hodgson and Chris Wilder also flying the flag.
Leicester's Northern Irish boss Brendan Rodgers makes it eight Brits, as our football swings back towards how it looked in the early 1990s when foreign managers were in the minority.
Lampard says he does not want to be the standard bearer" but insists his generation can pave the way for more English bosses in the future.
Lampard added: I'm pleased as a young British manager to be given this chance, yes. I think it's been something we have spoken about a lot lately.
"It is something the FA have worked lot on, we have seen Steven Gerrard, we have seen Phil Neville, we have seen Scott Parker, being given the chance.
I don't say I see it as a responsibility, but I would love to do well, because I think we are a generation of players, worked under a lot of managers and would have been influenced by a lot of managers, lot of different qualities.
I worked under I don't know how many managers, [with] different qualities, and I know Steven Gerrard would have done and Scott Parker would have done. I don't want to be the standard bearer for young English managers but I would love to do well personally at this club and I would love so see other young English managers come through and be getting these kind of jobs."
