Thank you Macca and Captain...

...for standing up for Lampard.

Post-Andorra match, criticisms rained [yet again] on Lampard's poor performance. His detractors don't seem to be done yet ever since they started after Frank didn't score a single goal in the 5 matches England played in the World Cup. I bet even people in the 606 podcast condemned him for not contributing a lot to the game. But the England manager came to his defense, "Frank Lampard normally likes a lot of freedom and space to run into, especially from centre midfield. There wasn't that much space to run into.

"But the one thing that really pleased me about Frank's game on Saturday was he had more touches of the ball than anyone else, he had more passes than anyone else.

"His success rate was higher than anyone else on the park and he received and passed the ball over 100 times. That is a phenomenal number of times. I've never know anyone else achieve that amount.

"It was a different role for him, a more subdued one because of the packed defence, and he really left and created the spaces for other people to run into. It was a different kind of game for Frank and he did it really well."

In the same manner, Captain John Terry defended Lampard saying he's been fantastic the past few games and that he has nothing to prove. He also said that criticisms on him are unfair.


Thank you for the good England people.