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
We're through. It means everything. We got very close last year but this year we want to go all the way.
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.
There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.
I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.
I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.
I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.
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.
We played very well at the weekend and when we do it is hard for teams to beat us because we have a lot of quality in the side,
Liverpool's strength in the Champions League last season was not conceding goals away from home. Maybe in the league they'll come out a bit more. Winning is more of a necessity for them.
I won't be thinking about the last game, so it won't affect them. They'll reflect on the good results.
We got the result and we're nearly there. I think we probably need to win two games and we are going to try to do that.
The anticipation of the World Cup is building more and more with every week now. As the season goes on, it becomes sharper in your mind and you can't help but start to get excited about it.
I wouldn't say what was said got under our skin. There were things said before the last Champions League game and we felt we had been talked about it a bad way. But we put it right in the league game up there which is the main place to do your talking.
The pitch will be full of players who are capable of changing the course of the game.