Frank Lampard calls into radio station and lashes out at radio presenter
Say what you will about Frank Lampard on and off the field but the Chelsea football player has shown that he is not at all afraid to stand up for himself. James O’Brien, a presenter on London radio station LBC 97.3, was hosting a call in show and putting forth his view that Frank Lampard is low life scum. The accusation was based on claims made in tabloid newspapers from Elen Rives, the mother of Frank Lampard’s two daughters. They have been in the middle of a high profile split and she had claimed that that football star is living in a mansion while he forces her and the children to live in a small flat.
Frank Lampard’s sister was listening to the radio show and alerted him to the names being thrown at him by James O’Brien. Apparently, James O’Brien simply was doing this on the wrong day because it turned out to be the one year anniversary of the death of Frank Lampard’s mother. He simply wasn’t going to take it any longer and picked up the phone and called into the radio station to confront James O’Brien live on air.
What follows is the audio of the entire phone call from Frank Lampard to LBC 97.3. He starts off trying to politely put the record straight because the claims of the way he has treated his children. Then it comes out that James O’Brien was basing his entire claims fully on a tabloid story. That is where Frank Lampard – rightfully – loses it and goes on major rant. James O’Brien fails to apologize for calling a man scum based solely on tabloid reports.
Listen to the call. In my view Frank Lampard did a fantastic job of standing up for himself and his family. James O’Brien comes out as a rubbish ‘journalist’.
