A season or two in Scotland with moderate success could have repaired his reputation but despite the backing of Souness it seems that Bennett opted to go with Philippe Clement.
Ibrox CEO James Bisgrove missed out on the sunshine jolly to Cyprus and was reported to have held talks in London with Lampard about the job vacated by Micky Beale.
Lampard is on the back of two disastrous spells in charge of Everton and Chelsea but is vain enough to think that he can go up to the My Nan League and surpass the modest achievements of Steven Gerrard.