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Article: Football: Euro 2004: New model Lampard fired by the fearlessness of youth England v France Chelsea's marathon man puts the bit-part days behind him
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2004
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Not so long ago, Frank Lampard would have regarded with
trepidation the proximity of both Patrick Vieira and Claude Makelele.
One as a Premiership opponent; the other as a potential rival for a
Chelsea midfield shirt. In an otherwise surreal year, following Roman
Abramovich's Stamford Bridge conquest, the England midfielder has
eclipsed the former player - during that famous Champions' League
quarter-final victory at Highbury in April - and outshone the latter
in the Chelsea establishment.
That's why you detect that here tonight, assuming Sven Goran
Eriksson allows the genie to emerge from "Lamps", as he tends to be
known, and selects him in his midfield, the Chelsea man will be
undaunted ...