The thing that annoyed me most about Lambert was his tendency to say things which were patently not true, regarding events that we had all just witnessed.
It's pretty hard to make a case for the "lads" having "given everything" and the manager "having no complaints" because he thought we "were excellent, really excellent" after we've just been utterly humiliated by Southampton or some other meh who-gives-a-shit club, who haven't had to get out of first gear.
He seems a nice enough guy, but so did McLeish, and he was fucking awful, too.