Royalty on the King's Road

Frank Lampard may equal Bobby Tambling’s Chelsea scoring record today, but the bond between the Stamford Bridge legends will always be stronger than stats. Kieran Shannon spoke to the Cork-based striker about Lampard, Jimmy Greaves and the swinging sixties in West London.

Royalty on the King's Road

He wants Frank Lampard to break his record. Genuinely, he does. While the nurses and doctors that have cared for him over the last few months and years will sometimes exclaim their relief, delight, bias that “Lampard didn’t score this weekend!”, to Bobby Tambling, ‘Lampard’ is ‘Frank’. Chelsea’s best ever player.

A gentleman. His friend.

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