Frank Lampard
Frank Lampard
Frank James Lampard OBEis an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for New York City FC in Major League Soccer. He is the all-time leading goalscorer for Chelsea, where he played for 13 years, and is considered by a number of journalists and football experts to be one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, in addition to being widely regarded as Chelsea's greatest ever player by some Chelsea players, such as previous record goal-scorer Bobby Tambling and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth20 June 1978
CityRomford, England
You get to the stage where every little bit of criticism that comes to you, you use to make you stronger, ... We get it from a lot of angles now and we hope to answer it by success.
The pitch will be full of players who are capable of changing the course of the game.
The pitch was as bad as it has ever been and we were getting frustrated.
We were concerned because no one wants to go 1-0 down at home, but it was always going to happen. We were always going to concede at some stage and it was about our reaction, which was spot on.
We've taken a bit of stick and I think no one has criticized us as much as ourselves by our recent performances, ... We thought we improved against Austria and today we wanted to play with a lot of pace in our game, a lot of attacking verve. We were unfortunate not to score a few more goals.
We know we're not quite there yet, last year was a fantastic day for us here. It was a big step towards winning it today. We're the ones nine points clear and as long as we do our job we're going to win the league. We got the result, we're nearly there.
I rate him very highly, right at the very top. He's a fantastic midfielder with a real all-round game.
Hopefully, we will win tonight and so reach the Champions League final. If that happens and I have the foot done straight afterwards, that would rule me out of the England tour,
The ultimate goal is to have the right formation by the time the tournament comes around and we will hopefully get it right, no matter how we line up.
That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.
I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.
I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.
Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!
There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]