booing Frank Lampard

[TheFaQQer]

I don't hate him - hate is too strong a word. I think he plays abysmally for England though, and shouldn't be in the team.

IIRC, during and after the World Cup, Fat Frank was moaning that the press were only focussing on his England performances, and not giving him credit for how well he'd played for Chelsea. One hack I was reading pointed out that he had got the credit AT THE TIME, and would he like them to start the reviews for the next matches with "Lampard, who played sh1t in the World Cup but don't worry folks he'll be banging them in against Bolton next week,..."

[barry_abs]

right, so it's a combination of poor england form and general, personal dislike then.. i could understand england fans being outraged at bentley refusing the U21s but still think frank's treatment is curiously harsh..

personally, i thought he was sh1t at the world cup - really f**kin useless.. but the whole team were guilty.. i could rant here, brakes applied.. what i didn't understand was the hate campaign against just one player..

frank was runner up in the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2005, beaten only by that party-animal brazilian.. hasn't repeated the feat since, but what a season he had in 2005..

i think frank's only crime is not being as good as the titan that is Gerrard.. i think gerrard is standing between frank and his best position for england.. the suggestion that he's not proud to play for england is daft.

[wendigo100]

Lampard is a good player who had a dodgy world cup, mainly because he missed so many chances.

Perhaps if his so-called betters had had the wherewithall to get into those positions themselves we would have won more games.

He is merely a scapegoat. The money thing is irrelevant.

[barry_abs]

has anybody read frank's book?

[BoredBloke]

I wasn't aware it contained words. I thought about looking at it to see if he had gone over the lines though

[AtW]

has anybody read frank's book?

Look chap, I don't know if you are too young or your samurai father just did not teach you basics, but it is not Frank's words in that book. The footballers are rich, physically strong, attractive to shallow women and all that, but they ain't exactly smart. They don't write those books - professional writers do and they put their name on the book: I have far more sympathy to that MI6 spy who was undercover in Al Q in Afranistan and he "wrote" a very good book about it - obviously with his English he could not write that well, heck I can't do that, but he told the story to a pro who then wrote it very nicely - that guy at least risked his life and he is not native English speaker, so for such "book" is excuseable for him, but not for Frank Lampard or any other footballer who "writes" those books.

95% income tax for any footballer earning over £5k per week. One year in jail for each attempt to avoid or evade paying that tax.

[oracleslave]

Look chap, I don't know if you are too young or your samurai father just did not teach you basics, but it is not Frank's words in that book. The footballers are rich, physically strong, attractive to shallow women and all that, but they ain't exactly smart. They don't write those books - professional writers do and they put their name on the book: I have far more sympathy to that MI6 spy who was undercover in Al Q in Afranistan and he "wrote" a very good book about it - obviously with his English he could not write that well, heck I can't do that, but he told the story to a pro who then wrote it very nicely - that guy at least risked his life and he is not native English speaker, so for such "book" is excuseable for him, but not for Frank Lampard or any other footballer who "writes" those books.

95% income tax for any footballer earning over £5k per week. One year in jail for each attempt to avoid or evade paying that tax.

So you just looked at the pictures then?

[AtW]

So you just looked at the pictures then?

Only on Page 3

[Pondlife]

snip....

95% income tax for any footballer earning over £5k per week. One year in jail for each attempt to avoid or evade paying that tax.

'aving a larf I hope.

[sasguru]

'aving a larf I hope.

However hard he tries he can't get rid of his Soviet instincts.
Repeat after me, atw: the MARKET, the MARKET, the MARKET.