LAMPARD

thought long and hard before clicking "ludicrously over-rated"

somewhere btwn how journalists and internet rates him tbh

best midfielder of his generation.

Quite a lot of ground between slightly and ludicrous, I feel I'd vote somewhere between those two.

aw man i thought i'd covered the options, wd repoll but hey i'm a lazy man

nvm thinking about him in conjunction with the phrase "best midfielder of his generation" helped me make up my mind.

Ballon d'Or 2005
1 	Ronaldinho 	 Brazil 	Spain Barcelona 	225
2 	Frank Lampard 	 England 	England Chelsea 	148
3 	Steven Gerrard 	 England 	England Liverpool 	142
4 	Thierry Henry 	 France 	England Arsenal 	41
5 	Andriy Shevchenko 	 Ukraine 	Italy Milan  33

Rated about right probably. I mean, he is really fucking good, on the basis of his goalscoring record alone. Not a very popular view round here perhaps but w/e. People wetting themselves over Michu as a midfielder with a striker's goalscoring abilities always seem to forget that Frank has been pumping in 20 goals a season or so across all competitions regular as clockwork for nearly a decade. An easy player to hate, but Chelsea fans must love him pretty much unconditionally at this point.

At this stage, Gerrard is the more overrated of the two sacred cow England midfielders. I mean Lampard has always been the more consistent of the two, but Lampard never really had those Hollywood moments where he looked like he was single-handedly saving his team from the jaws of disaster. Probably as a result of playing in a better team for most of his career.

His passing his pretty good but not world class, he used to be able to run tirelessly and created a lot and yeah scored a fuckload but he just... never seems to do very much that looks impressive. Now his pace is going, and he was never that fast in the first place, he tends to slow a midfield down and he doesn't have the vision to drop into a deeper role that would prolong his career like, say, Scholes. He was ludicrously overrated at his peak, never really a world class midfielder, now he's probably rated about right.

I hate him and think he's a fat clown, if I were Chelsea I'd probably keep him around and let him retire there. But there does seem to be some evidence that his totemic value to Chelsea is holding the longer-term development of the squad back. But then Chelsea themselves keep acting like idiots in that regard, so who knows.

I always wondered how he'd have done in Serie A, but the fact that he was actually voted the second best player in the world behind Ronaldinho, by people voting with a straight face, is almost entirely down to Mourinho being prepared to build a team around him and a system in which he could be consistently effective. Plonk him straight into any other team and I doubt that would have happened, as successive England managers found out.

I mean now he is older and slower and when he's off his game he can look an utter clunker, I can see why he never fit into the system AVB was trying to build, he can only really play one way and trying to get him to do anything else shows up his limitations, but the same is true for an awful lot of players.

a more measured version of a lot of what i was thinking, i guess. still baffled by some of the ludicrous hyperbole radio and TV pundits drool over him, you'd be pushed to find a moment when he was the best midfielder at his club never mind the world

Also his general movement off the ball has never seemed that good by fancy modern European standards, he always seems to be running up and down in a straight line, but he was and probably still is exceptionally good at timing a run which explains his goalscoring record.

I'd hazard a guess that he's probably the player who has accumulated more Fantasy League points than any other in like ten years as well.

Never been aware of Lampard being talked of hyperbolically that often, I'm probably not paying enough attention, there is certainly no comparison to Gerrard, who is in a field of his own when it comes to being overrated by his admirers

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well done journalists

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Brave choice of facepaint from JT there

England and Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard is to write a series of children's books, publisher Little Brown has announced.

The midfielder, whose contract expires at the end of the season, will pen five books, called Frankie's Magic Football, for children aged five and above.

Apparently there will be characters based on his team mates over the years.

Perhaps there will be a sleepy steam engine based on Michael Essien.

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Can't even escape from this guy at work :'-(

There's much more than meets the eye alright..

Overrated players team of the year - Charlton Life
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If only that forum had my intelligent, piercing insight huh

With 100 England caps

3 or 4 of which he turned up for

https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-lampard-facing-us-fan-backlash-9-11-054053564--sow.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC_dwmgW4AAwQXt.jpg

Why has he got Daniel Sturridge's hair?