Each time Frank Lampard gets into the back of a London taxi and sees the driver do a double-take in the rear view mirror, he knows what question is coming. Who was better: him or Steven Gerrard?
‘What do you do with that?’ Lampard says, laughing. ‘They love that conversation but they’ve got big mouths those cabbies — it’s not going to stay between us, is it!?’
It doesn’t seem five minutes ago that mentioning Lampard and Gerrard in the same sentence would be the trigger for a debate about how best to get them functioning in an England team and whether rivalries between Chelsea and Liverpool were holding them back.