Frankie goes to Fleet Street?
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2. Never been married.
14. The strong father figure section – surely Frank Senior would have been playing most weekends rather than taking Frank to the terraces? (-thanks Kievw)
The Checklist
(The origins of these clues can be found here)
1. Is he English?
2. Is he currently married?
3. Has he played under at least 4 managers?
4. Has he had a transfer between 2 Premiership clubs?
5. Was he a Premier League player in January 2011?
6. Has he played with a group of French players at one club?
7. Has he played with a striker who refused to move unless the pass went exactly where he wanted it?
8. Did he play for one manager for a considerable amount of time who was great before losing it?
9. Has he played for a manager who lost the dressing room?
10. Does he have a friend who plays for Liverpool?
11. Might he think Harry Redknapp is the Messiah?
12. Has he appeared as a pundit? (TSF probably doesn’t do so)
13. Did he have a long term girlfriend as a younger player?
14. Had/has a strong father figure.
15. Not an Arsenal or Man City player (at end of 2010-11 season).
16. Did he play a match at some point towards the end of March or first few days of April 2011?
17. Not a keeper.
18. Has a daughter.19. He played with Paolo Di Canio –removed by public demand 20. Someone who’s got a chat about ‘another season’ coming up -see revealing tweet post
21. He’s been involved in a last day relegation battle
22. He’s played for a newly promoted Premier League club
23. Has been subject to a deadline day transfer
24. TSF is Caucasian
25. Has a good friend who is African and has played for a team in Russia
26. Has been diagnosed with depression
27. Played in the lower leagues at start of career
28. Played against Liverpool for a lower league club
29. Was one of the best players in a very successful team
30. Played for a club that got themselves in financial trouble
31. Plays the Paul Scholes role
32. Played under a captain who will go down as one of most successful in the club’s history, without having earned it
33. Played under a stand-in captain wearing a large tubi-grip with a marker pen-written ‘C’ as captain’s armband
34. Has played as captain
35. Has played for a club who promoted their assistant manager to manager (and went on to get bad results)
36. Not a Liverpool fan
37. Played in a team that won promotion to the Premiership
38. Following on from clue 21: That team got relegated due to a goal going in at the other end of the country in the dying minutes of the final game of the season
39. Clue 38 was his last game for that club
40. His wage at the time of clues 38 and 39 was the best part of £100,000 per month
41. He went on to play in the Premiership again after the relegation in clue 38
13 responses to “Frank Lampard”
His Father retired from football in 86, meaning Frank would have been 8 years old… he could have taken him to the games from then on, the perfect age some may say.
Also, he was with his fiancee for 7 years, if he had said fiancee rather than wife it would have been obvious…so maybe he used the term wife…
Ah, good point re Frank Snr, I shall strike through that point!
He was referring to his current wife as he said something along the lines of ‘last week my wife said…’
Obviously his nickname (wife) for Christine Bleakley… Clutching at straws….
Come on, it’s so obviously Frank it’s untrue!
6. French players: Desailly, Lebeouf, Gallas, Anelka, Malouda, Deschamps, Kakuta – and can add French speakers Drogba, Kalou.
8. That whole article was about Mourinho – there’s possibly no other manager in the world it could’ve been talking about who was “Special” then had some self-doubt towards the end and became not special any more
9. You’re kidding. Grant & Scolari for sure, but even Mourinho to some degree by the very end
10. Cousin Jamie Redknapp perchance? Just a guess (NOT!)
13. Ms Rivas
14. Frank Lampard snr was a hard taskmaster for him.
The only factor against is the kicking a ball up against a council house wall in his hand-me-downs, but for a kid from the East End I think he allowed himself some poetic license.
Seriusly, close this book.
Completely agree, ticks so many boxes, has a partner involved in the media that could have helped arrange the column, and is supposed to be one of the smartest players in the PL (according to Chelsea’s IQ tests), and was well educated, so would have no trouble chucking around some of the more high brow quotes which have featured in the columns.
One article described a scandinavian friend he forgot wasn’t actually English. It’s Eidur Gudjohnsen obviously. Even I forgot he wasn’t nglish. Oh come on… :)
It is frank lampard.
I am convinced it is fat Frank
19. Didnt Frank play with DiCanio at West Ham?
Frank would never read, even less write for the Guardian. He’s true blue. Other than that I’d believe it.
It is Frank Lampard. There’s a giveaway in his guardian extract. He says he won player of the year back to back. Frank Lampard is the only English player to have won it back to back.
It has to be frank.
In the book he explicitly states he’s the only player to ever win back-to-back player of the season awards..
My point exactly. Who else can it be? He’s the only English player to do so since the start of the Premier League.