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
I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.
I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.
I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.
I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up
Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years
Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
But we have the players, as we have shown against good opposition this season, we're an extremely difficult side to live with at home. (on Chelsea)
The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.
As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.
I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)
They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch. (on Arsenal)
But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.