You have that stupid affliction where you think everything contemporary is automatically better because... no reason at all.

Not only did Lampard dominate the chavs period of success, but I think he's still in the top 10 of all time goalscorers in the PL. De Brown isn't fit to lace his boots, and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't got the capacity to measure, they are afflicted. It's not a matter of personal opinion, it's one of those truths on which our agreement of the reality around us depends. Which, admittedly, is getting vague in the current space of "individual truth".