Animosity towards Everton manager Frank Lampard “hasn’t dimmed an inch” with some West Ham United supporters but they’ve changed their tune over David Moyes with most of them hoping “he never goes.” That’s the view of Tom Rennie, the host of Week In The Tackle Podcast & Grumpy Pundits for Sirius XMFC and Editor and Lead Commentator for talkSPORTLive and Oddspedia, who is a Hammers fan himself.
Over two decades on from the now Blues boss’ exit from the Boleyn Ground as a player, Lampard’s relationship with some of the Irons faithful remains a fractious one. Rennie told the ECHO: “His father Frank Lampard senior is an all-time legend and remains the second-highest appearance maker (670, behind Billy Bonds on 799) in the entire history of West Ham. At the time Frank junior came through, he was assistant manager to Harry Redknapp who is also his uncle (Lampard senior and Redknapp married sisters Patricia and Sandra Harris).
“When Frank junior came through, there were some fans that thought that it was nepotism that got him in the team, claiming he was fat, slow and not as good as some of the other academy products. There was Danny Williamson, who went to Everton and someone called Scott Canham – who I don’t recall – but he’s famous at West Ham because during a press conference which still exists on YouTube, one fan name checks him, asking why he was let go.
