'We now know why clubs hire Frank Lampard'

Frank Lampard has also managed Derby County in the Championship

No amount of superlatives are really sufficient to describe what's happened in the last year under Frank Lampard at Coventry City Football Club..

When Doug King took him on the Sky Blues were 17th in the Championship table, and a significant proportion of the fanbase were not convinced.

In fact many preferred Ruud van Nistelrooy, who ended up at then-Premier League Leicester City and he did not survive going down with them.

An extraordinary run to the play-offs was only halted by a last-gasp extra-time Sunderland goal in a heart-breaking semi-final second leg.

But there was no real hangover from that, and even their solitary defeat at Wrexham has been responded to in the most spectacular fashion - that one L isolated among 10 Ws.

In all competitions, Coventry have played 52 games under Lampard, with 29 victories, 10 draws and 13 defeats, although two of those defeats were in cup competitions against Ipswich last season, and Millwall this term. That is a win ratio of 55.77%.

His brand of high-risk, high-reward football has brought goals, goals, goals, and results, even if sometimes they have found it tough - Middlesbrough on Tuesday being a case in point.

But Coventry are on course to break almost every record going in the Championship, and possibly the EFL itself.

As one podcast famously put it, when he got the job: "Why do clubs keep hiring Frank Lampard?"

Twelve months on I think we've got our answer, boys.