Thanks to Jon Colney for pointing out this quote from Big Fat Frankie in the Daily Star. Pay particular note to the last sentence…
“The England thing is not important to me at the moment. What is important is playing well for Chelsea. “When you’re playing well and on top of your game, you’ve got a feeling of confidence. Then there are times during the season when you feel like you can’t put a pass straight. I’ve dropped below the standards I want to set in the past. What player doesn’t. I have nothing to prove. The more experience you get in football, the more you realise that you don’t take notice of what someone wants to say about you isn’t involved in football or is just a fan.”
I’m just about holding myself back from commenting. Oh, sod it. I have always been one of the few to applaud Lampard when he comes back to Upton Park. But he’s shown himself to be a bigger whinger than Roeder. He’s a hugely talented player, and on his day he is a world beater. What a shame he fails to recognise West Ham’s part in his development.
Japan will stun England in next world cup. Group stage, 2-0.
Damien; Some of your points I agree with,but to say West Ham fans hate him cos he’s too Damn Good is way off the mark mate.
Just to fill you in with the datails,Frank started the whole thing off by saying he was leaving the club that gave him his first chance for personal reasons that were connected to his Dad getting the boot.
Then,later that year he said he would be the man to put the nail in West Ham’s coffin to send them down,and as you can imagine,it didn’t go down that well.
He then went on to Chelsea fans website and said he was glad to at last be playing for a decent team and that he had learnt more at Chelsea than he ever did at his previous club. That also did not go down well.
So to sum up Damien,if Frank was to keep his trap shut then the West Ham fans would not have been so nasty to him,but I’m afraid to say he has put the boot in and he must face the consequences! Nuff said I think. By the way,I neither hate him or love him,but I just needed to put you in the picture after your rant.
There are many reasons we hate Fat Frank but I have no intention of explaining myself to Chelsea fans. The only thing I will attest to is that I don’t know ONE West Ham fan who would have him back. Yeah he scores lots of goals, yeah he’s probably a Chelsea legend but you’re welcome to him. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.
Jealous? Yeah right. I’d rather have had the £11m any day.
You west Ham fans make me laugh, Lampard is class, just look at the amount of assists and goals he’s got for Chelsea, especially over the past 4 seasons. Give it up, he left ages ago and you treated him like shite when he played for you, so why get so angry all the time, small club, small brains. You are so average now that all your best players leave, will be the same for a long time.
England have been a better side without lumplard. He may wonder why WHU fans think he is a tosser.
Its simple he is shit.
during the last world cup he showed to the whole world what us HAMMERS fans had to suffer week in week out. If you look at the players we sold and was told we could sign any two back I would be shocked if any said that prick give me Cole and I would even choose Defoe over him.
Fatty who..?
Does anyone care what West Ham fans think about anything? LOL! They haven’t even participated in a single Champions League game! NOT EVEN PARTICIPATED IN A GAME! Unable to even qualify to enter a competion LOL!!!!
West Ham fans opinions to Chelsea fans are as important as York fans’ opinions are to West Ham fans. Nothing more, nothing less. West Ham makes up the numbers in the PL, like second-rate fighters are fed to good boxers for easy paydays. When it comes to REAL competition, it’s betwwen the big boys, not the likes of West Ham. Lampard must give thanks each day that he got out of there when he did.
lampard couldn t take the heat . so he got out of the kitchen. he can dish it out with ease ,but he can t endure it like an adult.
very childish. not the character or behavior of a real winner,to be getting into endless verbals with west ham and other supporters all across england ,years agao, and still at it today.
if lampard was as good as he thinks he is , and as good as some chelsea supporters think he is, he s let his efforts on the pitch do the talking. but he can t do that,he doesn t do that ,nor do many chelsea supporters do that .
where s the champions league trophy then? where s a european championship or a world cup for england then, or even something close to that ?
where is england qualification for 2008 then?
100 goals for chelsea? so what .
a little less talk and a bit more in terms of results for england.
if you re good enough, you keep your trap shut , and you just play on.
period. end of.
there s more to a football team than individual goal scoring stats. which might explain why ,despite spending a ton of money, chelsea s short-lived time at the very top of the english league looks to have passed,.
it s convenient for west london to point out the goals that lampard scores for chelsea. rather all too easy for west london to gloss over the goals he DOESN T score for england.
we ll how much lampard s goals against worldbeaters leicester matter when it comes to choose between him and hargreaves or barry.
Never have given a fu(k about Jnr since he showed his character in a bar just after 9/11, that episode showed me that West Ham are better off without him.
As for all these plastics coming here saying how great he is, fine when he moves, and he will just like dogbreath, shovemoremoneyko et all, then we will come to your boards and take the piss as you all cry in the knowledge that Chelsea’s days have ended as all teams fortunes change i.e. Liverpool’s reign during the 70’s to 80’s, and all you plastics crawl away back into your sad unimportant life’s
how pathetic is that ?
does it get any more pathetic than west london having nothing better to do than make idiots of themselves on an east london blog, on a weekend?
do you have nothing better to do with your dull,boring.one-dimensional lives?
obviously not.
and your even your insults are subpar.
stay in west london, where your toffiness belongs.
accept it- west ham fans don t give a toss about lampard or west london.
assists and goals my rear.
the man is a walking disgrace to professional sport.
are you that braindead ,those of you supposed chelsea”supporters” who came on here to hurl insults.not even good insults at that , that you can t grasp the fact that you
make yourselves look like absolute total morons ,by picking fights with people you don t even know and never will know?
stop, for a moment, and acknowledge what complete losers you prove yourself to be by carrying on this way.
feel good about it? feel proud of yourselves? feel productive and like you ve achieved something?
or do you feel like a complete fool?
im 15 just come bk from hammers they let goal in last minute im so gutted thought we was gonna win arrrrrrr
i would like to say sorry for bringing so many scum bags on to this blogg.
get off and go n play in the kings road,in the middle under a bus would be nice!!!
Damien, your response is typically blinkered and I think you miss my point.
I never said that Lampard is a bad player, simply that he is not as good as everyone makes out.
As you see fit to measure his playing ability in goals scored consider the fact that he scored last Wednesday for the first time since August. Do you call that consistent? I don’t.
Before we look to any West Ham players who have a worse record than that remember the accolade that Lampard gets. No West Ham player gets that level of praise.
The fact remains he is far too heavily praised, he wouldn’t get the same number of goals if he played for a team without the same midfield support (because he wouldn’t be able to get forward as much, just look at the mess he and Gerrard get into for England) and it is because of his attitude that West Ham fans don’t like him. Nothing else.
Personaly I think Gerrard is a better player and I don’t like Liverpool that much. His finishing is more crisp and certainly more powerful. Also £11m back when we sold Lampard surely has to be a good deal for us for a player who doesn’t want to stay and isn’t liked!!
spot on west _ham.
clear ,sensible,well stated points
Can someone tell me what Gerrard has done for England? 2 goals against andorra and apart from that? Overated in my humble opinion. Yeah he drives liverpool on, but has never been the same for england. If you have a holding player and one going forward for england its would lampard everytime. He would have scored that chance against russia that stevie “its ok when i dive” gerrard missed. Fair play lampard has’nt really been too good for england recently but still rather have him in than not.
Easy to make Lmpard a scapegoat.How many other england players have perfomed better than him? Its mainly west ham fans that slag him off. You say you’d never have him back and that you dont miss him but the fact is you are all obsessed with him.Slightly sad really seeing as he left years ago.
Anyway its good to see out of all you on here only tott went to your home game. loyal supporters to a man.
Cheers for the 6 points in advance.
Chelsea TilI Die, I can disagree with the stuff about Gerrard Vs Lampard. I don’t really like either of them but if pushed I would say that Gerrard is the better player. Just my opinion. But the important thing is that Chelsea are boring and Liverpool are boring cheats. Add to that the fact that I am not an England fan and it’s clear that I don’t really care what happens to either of them.
As for being obesssed with Lampard you are way off the mark. West Ham fans only get annoyed with him when he says something stupid, like in this post. he rest of the time he is not thought about. But he knows this so this is why he says these things because he likes to wind us West Ham fans up. That’s how sad he is.
Again your comments on loyalty are way off the mark. Upton Park only has a capacity of about 35,000 and it’s always full so tickets are like gold dust. That’s why we have plans to build a new stadium. Plus many of us who post here do so because we live far away and it’s our best means of keeping in touch with our club and other fans.
So try and make your comments a little less shallow next time eh. There’s a good chap.
moron, you don t 6 points. you need 60 by the looks of it.
lampard never does it when it really matters does he? when the pressure s on , he can t raise it.
leave the bitter herbs in chealsea.
sad sack 4 days later still going to the trouble of finding another club s blog.
have you no job, no pride, no dignity
how much do do u want to wager that u don t get 6 points off us punk rear witch?.
half empty stadium for a cjampions league fixture.
you re boring , your soulless, and yourt descent has started.
you don t like it? come and find me pinprick. so i can toss your west london reear in the nic
1 billion pounds later and you still don t sing.
london despises you.
the football league despises you.
teh entire country despises you.
you re millwall ,with a siberian ,stolen oil added in.
good luck getting your unemployment benefit
lampard can rot on the bench
gareth barry and hargeaves over him EVRY time
lamapard had his chance at west ham. he didn t get the job done on the pitch. that s his resposnibility and nobody else s . blaming it on all and sundry is just the usual
fulham road “everyone owes me a living ” mentailty.
there s more to life than spening silly money on trash on the kings toad.
and there s more to football than bitter frank lampard.
approaching 30 ,with a fat current account, but woefully short of maturity .
there s more to life than fat rear current accounts.
where were you , when you were excrement?
sipping overpriced cocktails on the fulham road trying to get chasing boring,frigid toffs?
plastic,unfantastic
chelsea- how many days does it take to dawn on you that you re just showing yourself up, on a worldwide scale? are you that dense?
where were you goals in austria then,frank?
easy against lie-cester . not so easy against real competition.
that s what happens to trash talking west london tripe
P.A.B.
WHERE WERE YOU,WEST LONDON, WHEN YOU WERE EXCREMENT?
answers on a post card P.A.B.
how many goals for lampard then against shalke ,pinprick?
the DONUT
yet gerrard managed to score to help prevent liverpool being knocked out.
take your lie-cester goals and stick them with your blue flag, west london tosh.
west londoin tossrags – still sending hatemail and making deaththreats to avram grant, niow that you re unbeaten in 8, despite a mediocre draw in austria???
racist pinpricks . you re an embarrasment to london and an embarrassment to football.
and your hooligans are weak chested punkwits.
where were you against everton then, frank??
coul dn t raise it against cahill could you ,frank?
clamp your trap ,wide boy, and start getting results instead of blasting off rubbish to the press.
stick those 2 dropped points with yoor blue flag , west london.
do your job, for once in your international career ,lampard.
nice job chelsea. you singlehandedly knocked england out of the european championships
player ratings vs croatia on scal eof 1 to 10
bridge- 2 absolutely out of his depth.
SWP- 3 lazy,loafing waste of space, always too many touches, never
tracking back.
Lamaprd- 4 apart from the penalty ,well taken under extreme pressure ,totally
anonymous ,with no value added . another lazy jogger.
Joe Cole -4 plenty of effort but no end product . at all
absolute disgrace. shame on you
HISTORY? – “super super frank” , you wouldn t know what history was if you studied it for the next 100 years.
half empty ground for a champions league match at stamford bridge- that sums up the qaulity of chelsea support.
and as for chelsea remaining in the top 4 , lots of luck . england cudn t even qua;ify with your mob. you re on borrowed time and borrowed money .
lampard gets abused for teh same reason you do- because you , him ,and many chelsea “supporters” are rude,ill-mannered ,humorless and arrogant with precious little to be arrogant about
your on 5 to 10 times our budget west london, and u limp to a 1-0 nil win ,courtesy of a dubious refereeing decision – that s the best u can do ?
funk u
great example you set for youngsters there john. grabbing luis boa morte by the throat.
is that how they taught you to defend on your council estate ? and is that the same council estate where they taught you how to drink too much alcohol and then vomit in pubs ? captain of england? the only thing you re captain of is a ship that sank.