Talk:Frank Lampard

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Contents 1 Birth 2 Vandalism 3 Height 4 Photo 5 Below form 6 Honors 7 Scandal 8 Unsufficient information 9 Nickname

[edit] Birth

Romford? In London? I don't think so.

Yes it is. Look at a map. Bhoeble 18:21, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Romford is traditionally in Essex. SteveO 13:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

You are both correct. It is part of Greater London Google Maps(pretty much anything inside the M25 is) but its traditional county is Essex Google Search. UK postal addresses place Romford in Essex. The term Greater London is only used for administration. Heezy 16:39, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Romford is in the London Borough of Havering. In 1965 it was transferred to Greater London under the London Government Act 1963 along with the likes of East Ham, West Ham & Barking. Royal Mail continued to include the former postal county until 1996 in addresses in the part of the area transferred that was not in the London postal district (such as Barking and Romford). 80.168.159.82 20:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Who are these people with no life? This seems to happen on a fairly regular basis on this page. Blueasy 05:04, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Steady on mate! None of us have any life, let's face it. Otherwise we would hardly be Wikipedians now would we? Hee Hee. Bobble2 14:48, 24 April 2006 (UTC)Bobble2

Hopefully it won't increase after today's lack of lustre.  SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  19:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

This page gets regularly vandalised. Shouldn't it get semi protected status? Beeromatic 13:08, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

It gets vandalized, but not so much as to need protection at the moment. Wikipedia tries to protect pages as sparingly as is reasonably possible. It might have gotten s-protected at the very end of the world cup (I can't remember), but there's not enough vandalism traffic now that it would be worth locking out potentially helpful editors. Vickser 18:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Did you see what someone wrote??? Frank Lampard, a fat bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can they do that?!!? I hate some players too but I still respect them. Tasiger 15:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

probably just a Wet Spam fan bitter that Frank moved to a bigger club

Hey! Something is wrong with the site!! I don't know if that's vandalism but something's just not right. The article doesn't show all the information about Frank even though they were edited and you can see them when you're editing the page.Tasiger 15:20, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Height

Lampard can't possibly be 1.77m. On other pages it says 6'0 - I don't know what that is in meters, but he must be at least 1.84m.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.128.235.210 (talk • contribs) 13:23, 20 Jun 2006 (UTC)

Official site states 1.83m or 6' : can't get more official than that.(Grugu 21:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC))

• I've moved this section to the bottom of the talk page for consistency. TheJC ^Talk_{Contributions} 15:19, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

The photo is pretty crap. I'm sure a better one could be found.

[edit] Below form

At the World Cup in Germany in 2006 Lampard played below form for the majority of the tourament and missed a penalty in the penalty shoot-out against Portugal in the quarter-final.

I agree with this comment, but it's unencyclopedic. It would be nice if we could find a reputable source saying something similar. He looked unrecognisable from the Chelsea player firing goals in from any distance, not to mention the nervous wreck that went up to take the penno. Does anyone know where shot accuracy figures can be found?  SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  19:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I added the accuracy numbers and a link to an article talking about how everyone's talking about how Lampard's playing poorly to support the poor form claim. It's in a new England section. Vickser 20:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Honors

I'm new to Wikipedia, will someone please add in that he was a midfielder on the 2005 (FIFPro World XI) team, linking the entire paranthetical area. I've been adding most of these to other World XI players, but Lampard's is locked up. Delete this if you add it, thanks.

The article does mention it. I've now added the wikilink as well.SteveO 10:52, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

It's better not to delete anything on the talk page. — Alex ^(T|C|E) 22:34, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

no one has bought to light that Lampart alough he is rubbish can get in to the england starting 11 anytime

[edit] Scandal

isnt there a latest scandal involving him and some spanish woman (not his wife) - that while he was in spain not too long ago filming an ad he got sexually involved with the woman in question?? i cant quite find the source yet, maybe someone else can. Chensiyuan 16:11, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unsufficient information

"Frank's ever present habit..." - I read that somewhere and I was wondering if anyone of you know what that means?Tasiger 18:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe it's a reference to the fact that Lampard rarely misses a game, something which a lot of West Ham fans attributed to nepotism during his time there.[1] SteveO 13:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

When Lampard was at West Ham, daily newspapers reported that he was a regular at the club because of his father. I saw a newspaper myself there. And West Ham fans also cheered when his leg got broken "in disrespect". This can be added, as it is not nice but an important information about him in his journey.

[edit] Nickname

Why isn't Fat Frank included as a nickname. A lot of football websites and football fans call him Fat Frank. Someone should put it in.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.250.13.228 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 26 February 2007.

Given some of the highly dubious and abusive things which "a lot of football websites and football fans" say about players and managers, I doubt that is appropriate criteria for inclusion here. SteveO 17:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Abusive or not it is his nickname.Dixie Dean didn't like be called Dixie, he preferred to be called Bill but so, he is still known to many as Dixie. --82.153.37.119 21:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Firstly, Dixie Dean is known to history by that name, and I don't think it was ever used abusively, he just didn't like it. So it's a misleading example. Secondly, the standard is not to include abusive or offensive nicknames in infoboxes. Pretty much every well-known football figure has a pejorative nickname, but to my knowledge none has one which appears in their infobox. SteveO 11:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)