Frank Lampard

Carried from the pitch on a stretcher, his 31st-minute substitute was Rio Ferdinand.

The game also saw his first booking as a West Ham player.

Lampard claims to have been jeered from the pitch by West Ham United supporters, an action which made him consider leaving football.

He had made 16 appearances in all competitions for The Hammers.

From this season Lampard took the number 18 squad number having previously held the number 26 spot.

Lampard came on as a 76th-minute substitute for Eyal Berkovic.

Frank James Lampard (born 20 June 1978) is an English professional football manager and former player who was most recently caretaker manager of Premier League club Chelsea.

He is widely regarded as one of Chelsea's greatest players ever, and one of the greatest midfielders of his generation.

He has the record of the most goals by a midfielder in the Premier League and of scoring the most goals from outside the box (41).

Lampard began his career at West Ham United, his father's former club, joining the youth team in 1994, his schoolboy hero being West Ham striker, Frank McAvennie.

Lampard joined West Ham when his father was the assistant coach, entering as an apprentice in the youth team in 1994 and signing a professional contract the following year.

A box-to-box midfielder, Lampard began his career in 1995 at West Ham United, the club where his father, Frank Lampard, Sr.., also played.

He went on loan to Second Division club Swansea City in October 1995, debuting in his team's victory 2–0 over Bradford City and scoring his first career goal in a match against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Lampard played nine times for Swansea before returning to West Ham in January 1996.

Lampard made his debut for West Ham on 31 January 1996 against Coventry City coming on as a substitute for John Moncur.

His only other game of the season was the season's last, on 5 May 1996, a 1–1 home draw with Sheffield Wednesday when Lampard was used as a substitute for Keith Rowland.

The following season Lampard made his first start for West Ham, on 17 August 1996, in a 2–0 away defeat to Arsenal before being substituted for Robbie Slater.

Lampard's season ended on 15 March 1997 when he sustained a broken leg during an away, 0–0 draw, against Aston Villa.

On the first day of the 1997–98 season, West Ham opened their fixtures with an away game against Barnsley who were playing in the top tier of English football for the first time in 110 years.

Lampard played 106 matches for the England national team, after making his debut in 1999.

He ranked highly on a number of statistics for Premier League players for the ten years from 1 December 2000, including most games and most wins.

He is best known for his time at London rivals Chelsea, for whom he signed in 2001 for £11 million.

In his thirteen years with the club, Lampard established himself as a prolific scorer from midfield, becoming Chelsea's all-time leading goalscorer, with 211 goals scored in all competitions.

Lampard won three Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League, four FA Cups, and two League Cups.

Lampard scored 29 goals for England, and was voted England Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005.

In 2005, he was named FWA Footballer of the Year, and finished runner-up for both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year.

He represented his country at three FIFA World Cups – in 2006, 2010 and 2014 – and in UEFA Euro 2004, where he was named in the Team of the Tournament.

After retiring from international football, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2015 for services to football.

After retiring, Lampard served as a team captain on the ITV sport panel show Play to the Whistle from 2015 until 2017.

He has also written a number of children's books.

After leaving Chelsea, Lampard played for league rivals Manchester City and Major League Soccer (MLS) club New York City FC before retiring in 2017.

Lampard is one of 10 players, and the only midfielder, to have scored 150 or more goals in the Premier League.

He is fourth in the Premier League's all-time assists ranking, with 102 assists.

Lampard holds a number of additional Chelsea and Premier League records, and has won PFA Fans' Player of the Year and the FWA Tribute Award.

During his career, he was named in the PFA Team of the Year three times, Premier League Player of the Month four times, Premier League Player of the Season once and finished as the Premier League's top assist provider three times, and was named in the FIFPro World XI and a MLS All-Star.

After departing, Lampard was named in the Chelsea Team of the Decade as voted for by Chelsea fans, and into the Premier League Hall of Fame.

Lampard began his managerial career with Derby County in 2018, leading the club to the final of that season's Championship play-offs.

He was appointed as Chelsea's head coach a year later, guiding them to fourth place and the FA Cup Final in his first season.

However, after a poor run of results, Lampard was dismissed in 2021.

Following a spell with Everton, he was re-appointed Chelsea manager on a caretaker basis in 2023.