Chelsea‘s abysmal 3-1 defeat by the hands of Arsenal on Wednesday night marked Frank Lampard’s fourth consecutive Premier League defeat because the begin of his second doomed stint in control of the west London outfit. 

Coupled with losses towards Real Madrid in each legs of the Blues’ Champions League quarter-final, Lampard’s ignominious return to Stamford Bridge offers him the doubtful distinction of creating the worst begin by a supervisor on the membership in its 105-year historical past. 

But Lampard’s last weeks at Everton earlier this season have been no extra profitable. 

Ahead of being handed his marching orders by the membership’s hierarchy in January, the previous England worldwide oversaw a woeful run of ten video games throughout all competitions and not using a win. 

Lampard is now within the midst of a seven-match dropping streak within the Premier League together with stints at each golf equipment. 

On the intense facet, the Blues legend has a protracted option to go earlier than matching the Premier League supervisor with the best variety of consecutive losses within the English top-flight. 

In September 2021, Daniel Farke made historical past with Norwich recording his sixteenth consecutive defeat after a lacklustre begin to the season. 

The determine is made all of the extra exceptional by the truth that virtually a 12 months and a half had handed between Farke’s Canaries beating Leicester 1-0 at Carrow Road and dropping to Everton on the highway. 

Norwich have been relegated on the finish of the 2019-20 season and promoted from the Championship lower than a 12 months later, with the German supervisor’s dropping streak bookending a 12 months spent away from the top-flight. 

Farke was sacked with ironic timing, simply hours after the crew recorded their first victory of the 2021-22 season, which noticed Norwich nab an away 2-1 win towards Brentford. 

Norwich would solely win 4 extra occasions that season earlier than being banished again to the division beneath. 

Nipping at his heels in second place is Mick McCarthy, who oversaw 15 defeats on the trot throughout his spell at Sunderland in 2003, solely to supervise one other disappointing run with the Black Cats two years later. 

From January 2003 till the season’s finish in May, McCarthy’s facet solely scored six occasions, however miraculously, he saved his job on the Stadium of Light. 

The second run, which got here two years later, noticed the drought come between October and December, ending with a limp 0-0 draw towards Bolton Wanderers on Boxing Day in 2005. 

But the turnaround didn’t result in an upswing in type, and McCarthy was sacked in March 2006. 

In the checklist of the 18 managers who’ve recorded over eight consecutive losses, British managers far outweigh their overseas counterparts, with solely 4 on the checklist managing abroad. 

One of the extra excessive profile names, Roberto Martinez, was on the helm of Wigan when the Latics recorded eight straight defeats. 

The Spanish supervisor’s ill-fated 2011-12 marketing campaign noticed Wigan win solely 4 matches between August and February, however an unbelievable fightback within the spring saved the facet from relegation and steadied Martinez’s footing on the membership. 

Chris Wilder additionally recorded eight straight defeats, with Sheffield United between October and December 2020, throughout which period the Blades additionally set the document for the worst-ever begin to a Premier League season not together with factors deductions, as did Alan Pardew, who was sacked in April 2018 amidst a 10-game winless run.