Little did
his mentors down at the Boleyn know it at the time, but the ‘token’ educational
sessions provided at the academy for the young Frank ‘destined to be a major star’ Lampard would reap the benefits of a
top publishing deal and join the long list of footie literary heavyweights. However,
in the latest twist in the incredible Lampard tale, Frank has released a series
of childish stories about football that parents can use to induce sleep in
their kids at bedtime. Sources have revealed that the stories are really
insomnia inducing – up there with counting sheep and the like!
ZZZ...Lamps saves the day again! |
Loosely based upon his own experiences as a top flight professional footballer, readers who will be hoping to get some insight into the saucy goings on in the Chelski dressing room will be disappointed as the stories are said to be mostly based upon the well tested Roy Race / Fulchester Rovers theme with ’our’ Frankie starring as the hero. The majority are thought to involve a storyline along the lines of Frankie being unable to make the start of a crucial Chumpions League tie due to flight delays / military coups in one of the many African countries where he is involved in important charity work, but amazingly, gets back just in time to score a double hat-trick and save the day, de blah blah…
Meanwhile,
Irish soccer pundit, Eamonn Dunphy, who penned possibly the greatest football
book of all time “Only a game?”, is said
to have lashed out at the project as a pointless waste of time, even for a washed up has-been, before using the
whole debacle as yet another prime example of the seemingly boundless
narcissism of our football ‘stars’.
Other
rumours suggest that Lampard may embrace a range of new roles when he finally
deems to quit top flight football including as a peace negotiator in war torn
zones such as Somalia and Newham, as well as an astronaut in a planned mission
to Uranus. It seems for polymathic Frank that the options are infinetessimal…
Meanwhile, VERYWESTHAM
have started a campaign to get our very own ‘Frankie’ – the legendary Frank McAvennie
– to pen a series of ‘adult’ stories about a cheeky but loveable footballing
rogue who manages to score on and off the pitch. Now that would make for a proper bedtime read!
Macca has a book already
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