Coventry City boss Frank Lampard knows those on the outside will never understand the daily trials and tribulations of being a manager.

It’s why he has the utmost confidence in himself to block out the noise and do his job wherever that may be.

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When asked by talkSPORT whether he is motivated to prove those who questioned his managerial credentials wrong, Lampard insisted that had never been a driving factor and is simply something that comes with the territory of being in the dugout.

“I think sometimes people will talk about my career in different ways with no context about the situation, no context about the behind the scenes, the club or my period at Everton or going back to Chelsea,” Lampard said.

“I could explain the context clearly to a football person, but someone far away on social media, I can’t.

“You can’t get too caught up in it.”

Lampard added: “Again, perspective. You get a bit older and you’re never going to please people that might not want me to do well anyway.

“So just do your job at the place you’re at and have confidence in yourself.

“I’m alright with that.”

Lampard is certainly doing a job at Coventry City, with the Chelsea hero on the brink of leading the Sky Blues to the Championship play-offs.

It is a remarkable prospect given the club sat in 17th and only two points above the relegation zone when Lampard took over last November.

Given Lampard had been sacked in his previous two full-time roles at Chelsea and Everton along with a dismal caretaker stint at Stamford Bridge, some fans were sceptical whether the 46-year-old was truly cut out for a career in the dugout at a high level.

Frank Lampard’s managerial career

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The fate of Wayne Rooney, another superstar player from Lampard’s era but had failed miserably in his two Championship jobs with Birmingham City and Plymouth Argyle, was also used as an unfair stick to beat Lampard with.

But Lampard’s work with the Sky Blues has proved a swathe of his detractors wrong.

Going into the final two games of the season, Coventry sit sixth in the Championship on 66 points, three ahead of Middlesbrough and Millwall who are seventh and eighth respectively.

Blackburn, who are ninth on 62 points, also remain mathematically in the hunt for the final play-off spot.

It means the Sky Blues’ play-off fate is very much in their own hands and they could secure one final chance at promotion this season with a game to spare if results go their way this weekend.

However, Lampard refused to look beyond the fixture against the Hatters, who are locked in a nail-biting fight for survival, and has drilled that message home all week long to his players.

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“I think we know the different options of what may be,” Lampard said.

“My main focus is to really look at Luton because they’re fighting for a lot. To come down from the Premier League, the position that they are in. They’ve still got some Premier League players, got a great result in their last game.

“It (Kenilworth Road) will be a hostile stadium, supporting their team, as they should. So I don’t go too far beyond that.

“Of course, if we get the right result and results go our way, we know it’s possible that we get the right result.

“But if other results don’t go our way, we go to Middlesbrough and it’s all on that.

“So it’s important that I, as the coach, as well as the players, go, ‘Right, just focus on this one.’ And that’s what we’ve done through the week.”

Should Lampard steer the Sky Blues to the Championship play-offs, it would mark the second time he has done so.

Lampard accomplished the tricky feat in just his first season as a senior manager when he was in charge of Derby County.

In fact, the 46-year-old guided the Rams to the play-off final but fell at the final hurdle in a 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa.

But with valuable play-off experience in his pocket and a team that came within a penalty shootout of a Premier League return only two seasons ago, there’s every chance Lampard is in the eye of a perfect storm to guide Coventry back to English top flight.