The soon-to-be-outgoing Liverpool captain’s brand of impulsive, burden-bearing brilliance will be missed by those who feel sport is losing its romance …
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A second opinion on Frank Lampard: football’s great learner
My own thoughts on Lampard, following my colleague’s piece earlier today. “Oh my goodness, that’s incredible. Frank Lampard against Chelsea” – Steve Wilson, MoTD 2: 21/9/14 …
Lampard looks to football’s final frontier: space
In this rarefied age of footballing athleticism, those players who can both find and exploit space are, ultimately, the ones who will reach the moon …
Reflections on the career, to date, of Xavi Hernandez
For all that world football lauds, and rightly so, the astounding twin talents of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, neither of those two quite justify the epithet “changed football” in the same way as Xavi Hernandez, Barcelona and Spain’s favourite eldest son …
Gerrard the fall guy once more in career scarred by self-destruction
As England teeter on the brink of World Cup elimination, serious questions must be asked of Gerrard’s attitude and ability when it really counts …
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