{"id":494,"date":"2005-01-22T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/494"},"modified":"2005-01-22T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T00:01:44","slug":"frank-lampard-england-player-of-the-year-cheers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/frank-lampard-england-player-of-the-year-cheers\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lampard &#8211; England Player of the Year :cheers:"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No surprise to those of us who have followed Frank&#39;s incredible performances for Chelsea, but polling 40% of the vote to become &#39;England Player of the Year&#39; shows just how highly regarded he is. And it&#39;s not just his incredible scoring record for a midfielder, but his consistency. Amazingly, in domestic football Frank is now up to 131 consecutive Premiership games for Chelsea&#8230; a level of consistency unmatched by any other player (by some distance). <\/p>\n<p>And while I&#39;m on the topic of football, the fortunes of Leeds United (bought today for \u00a310 million by former Chelsea Chairman Ken Bates)  and still with debts of \u00a325 million apparently, made strange reading alongside the news that Chelsea had dropped their shirt-manufacturer deal with Umbro having paid &#8211; yes that&#39;s right &#8211; a cool \u00a325 million to cancel the deal. Times have changed, and then some.<\/p>\n<p>But back to Frank: the full story is over on the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefa.com\/England\/SeniorTeam\/NewsAndFeatures\/Postings\/2005\/01\/FrankLampard_EnglandPOTY_2004.htm\">FA site<\/a>. Oh yes&#8230; Rooney came second with 16% of the vote (he&#39;d have got more, but most of the votes for him flew high over the bar), and Beckham nowhere in sight. Strange days&#8230; but I&#39;m havin&#39; a laff. :hat:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}