Batcave Brigade
30 Apr 2006, 11:33 AM
Fat Frank is at it again. Once again, he comes off as a complete cnut.
Frank Lampard Jnr. Times magazine
It was expected West Ham's fans would embrace Lampard as one of their own, especially as the son of a club legend, but his early appearances were made against a soundtract of booing.
"It was very difficult because the fans thought that I was getting an easy route in the team because of my dad and my uncle," he recalls. "Grown men haranguing a kid, swearing at me. Between the age of 17 and when I left West Ham I had that hanging over me, and I hated it. There was always an underlying feeling against me. It meant that one of my biggest aims in life was to prove them wrong. I have now been back as the second best player in the world, and England international, blah, blah. That gives me great pleasure."
His Essex upbringing seems a long way behind him these days...."And now I think I'll never go back," he says. "I will never forget where I came from, but I have settled in so well in Chelsea. It is much more cosmopolitan, and I live among foreign people and movie stars, who don't look twice at a footballer."
"I remember when Rio Ferdinand was scouted by West Ham, my dad took a big interest in him. He used to drive over to Peckham to pick up Rio to take him to training. I went with him once and we picked him up at a small flat on the fourth floor. Again, not wanting to sound snobby, but I could see the difference with my background and what Rio had worked so hard to come out of, and better himself and make a better life for him and his family."
"Private school helped me to get good grades and good manners." Yeah right Frank, good manners? What, the way you behaved in front of those Americans after September 11th? You're no better than anyone else sonny boy!!
Frank Lampard Jnr. Times magazine
It was expected West Ham's fans would embrace Lampard as one of their own, especially as the son of a club legend, but his early appearances were made against a soundtract of booing.
"It was very difficult because the fans thought that I was getting an easy route in the team because of my dad and my uncle," he recalls. "Grown men haranguing a kid, swearing at me. Between the age of 17 and when I left West Ham I had that hanging over me, and I hated it. There was always an underlying feeling against me. It meant that one of my biggest aims in life was to prove them wrong. I have now been back as the second best player in the world, and England international, blah, blah. That gives me great pleasure."
His Essex upbringing seems a long way behind him these days...."And now I think I'll never go back," he says. "I will never forget where I came from, but I have settled in so well in Chelsea. It is much more cosmopolitan, and I live among foreign people and movie stars, who don't look twice at a footballer."
"I remember when Rio Ferdinand was scouted by West Ham, my dad took a big interest in him. He used to drive over to Peckham to pick up Rio to take him to training. I went with him once and we picked him up at a small flat on the fourth floor. Again, not wanting to sound snobby, but I could see the difference with my background and what Rio had worked so hard to come out of, and better himself and make a better life for him and his family."
"Private school helped me to get good grades and good manners." Yeah right Frank, good manners? What, the way you behaved in front of those Americans after September 11th? You're no better than anyone else sonny boy!!