I’ll do a Jose on United, to be Frank

FRANK LAMPARD aims to emulate legendary Jose Mourinho – by dumping Manchester United on his Chelsea managerial debut.

The new Blues boss begins his time in the hotseat today with a clash against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men today.

And that is the very fixture that sparked the Special One’s glorious first reign at the Chelsea helm back in August 2004.

Lamps played in a 1-0 home win over Fergie’s United that afternoon – and would love nothing more than to ignite his own Blues revolution with three points at Old Trafford.

The prolific ex-chelsea and England star, 41, said: “You would certainly get momentum.

“I remember the game, it wasn’t great and we didn’t play particularly well, but we won.

“It was a nice start for us because we’d had a good pre-season and all our standards had been lifted by Jose Mourinho.”

That nice start led to a campaign of total dominance by Lamps and Co as they continued to sweep all before them en route to the first of back-to-back league titles.

While he stopped short of making any such wild predictions about what victory might do to Chelsea’s brave new world – with their mix of established stars and a gang of hungry homegrown talent – Lampard believes it would boost confidence.

“It would be great to have that sort of momentum after the first game, “said Chelsea’s all-time greatest scorer with 211 goals between 2001 and 2014.

“It’s the same because it’s the same teams we’re talking about... but it’s not the end of the story. We’re going to a tough place in Old Trafford, and the thing with football is you can lose at those places.

“We have to have a bigger picture than that. But, yes, if we get early momentum by getting a result, it would certainly help – as it helped us in the Jose Mourinho days.

“I hope it would give us a boost and belief but you also get belief through how you train every day.

“We come back from Manchester and on Monday we fly to Istanbul for Liverpool (UEFA Super Cup), so there’s not much time to overthink things.

“We want to hit the ground running but we’ve been given a tough start, especially when you consider the turnaround of Sunday to Wednesday with the travel. It will be two hard games. But we have to be up for that.”

Although they were Europa League winners last season, Maurizio Sarri’s Chelsea finished a staggering 33 points behind Premier League champions Manchester City.

Little wonder they are being written off as title contenders.

Not that Lampard cares. He said: “At the top, where you want to be, it is tough – and it makes it sweeter to prove people wrong.”