Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Frank Lampard the coward
The player who validated the theory for me and convinced me to take it to print.

Lampard - a shadow striker as he had zero defensive responsibilities at his peak, just had to ghost into the box and pick up knockdowns. Very similar position that Sanchez has played in the last couple of games. A midfielder is defined by his defensive responsibilities, an attacking player with nothing to do defensively is an attacker. FACT.

So 147 goals in 429 for Chelsea according to Wiki. By rights that sort of rates puts him in the James Beattie/Andy Carroll class of forward, pretty meh. But hes too smart for such a thing, so what did he do? Convince everybody hes "just a midfielder me". Every interview he did he always made sure to mention the word "midfielder", think about it. Coupled with his media pals drawing fraudulent formational diagrams showing 4-5-1s rather than 4-4-2s or 4-4-1-1s and all of a sudden hes the "greatest goalscoring midfielder for a generation".