Even a fair number of the Everton party who have made the journey to the US were surprised when the pictures of Frank Lampard in the White House dropped.
The top secret event caught plenty off guard after the invitation was extended and, as a result, Lampard and his coaching team received a private tour of a building almost as famous as Goodison Park. The Blues boss, along with assistant manager Joe Edwards and coaches Chris Jones, Paul Clement, Ashley Cole and Alan Kelly toured the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room and the Roosevelt Room.
Lampard, a press conference veteran, still couldn't resist a photograph behind the lectern in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. The trip was a far cry from the coaching team's experience of the White House before Monday's trip. Before then it had been a landmark on early morning runs before they took the players across the Potomac River, past the sight of the Pentagon, and onto training in the Virginia suburbs.
