Championship

FRANK’S KEANE TO HAVE LAST LAUGH!

by
The LeaguePaper Team
24 February 2019

RAMS BOSS LAMPARD PREPARES TO TAKE ON OLD FOE IN EAST MIDLANDS DERBY

By John Wragg

EARLY DAYS: West Ham’s Frank Lampard attempts to tackle Manchester United’s Roy Keane in 2001

‘I felt that shove and I felt it mentally, that this is the big boys’
THE first time Frank Lampard came up against Roy Keane he got a look and a shove.
It was one of the most important lessons in Lampard’s graduation towards becoming a player of longevity and great distinction.
Tomorrow night, Lampard takes on Keano for the first time as a manager.
He doesn’t expect anythi...

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