Topic: Ricky Lambert Retires

[markedasred]

Just posted on the BBC site. Good luck son, enjoy the other stuff.
"Former England striker Rickie Lambert has announced his retirement from football.
The 35-year-old ex-Southampton, Liverpool and West Brom forward has been without a club since leaving Cardiff City by mutual consent in July.
He scored 218 goals in 607 league games in a career that spanned 19 years and took in nine clubs.
"I feel lucky to have been involved in this sport for as long as I have," said the Liverpool-born forward.
Lambert scored three goals in 11 appearances for England and came on as a substitute at the 2014 World Cup.
"I have had some ups and downs in my career, but to have represented clubs like Southampton and Liverpool and playing for my country in a World Cup were beyond my wildest dreams," he said."

[Lone Star Red]

Didn't work out for him here, but he got a chance to play for his boyhood club, scored for his boyhood club in the Champions League and earned his way on to the England national team and appeared in a World Cup. Not bad eh.

[jillcwhomever]

All the best to Ricky he was so thrilled to get the chance to be at his boyhood club.

[paulrazor]

i think his legs just went when we got him

shame really

seemed a very likeable bloke. remember him cutting short a holiday i think to start pre season early with us

pity things didnt really work out

[norecat]

Wish him well on his retirement. However he is apparently cribbing that moving to Liverpool killed his love of the game due to lack of playing time. He was never good enough to play for Liverpool and should count his blessings to have played for his country and Liverpool.

[El Lobo]

Wish him well on his retirement. However he is apparently cribbing that moving to Liverpool killed his love of the game due to lack of playing time. He was never good enough to play for Liverpool and should count his blessings to have played for his country and Liverpool.

Have you read what he actually said? I don’t really see anything wrong, actually respect completely what he did say. I wouldn’t just read the ‘Liverpool move wrecked my career’ daft headlines.

[sms1986]

Wish him well on his retirement. However he is apparently cribbing that moving to Liverpool killed his love of the game due to lack of playing time. He was never good enough to play for Liverpool and should count his blessings to have played for his country and Liverpool.

Where's that from, because it sounds like media bullshit?

[CornerFlag]

Where's that from, because it sounds like media bullshit?

It's a Daily Fail interview, so I'll just go to another shite page instead.

http://www.90min.com/posts/5641500-retired-ex-liverpool-striker-rickie-lambert-fell-out-of-love-with-football-after-switch-to-reds

After rising from the basement of English football to successfully make his name known at Southampton, recently retired Rickie Lambert has revealed that he 'fell out of love' with the game after switching to Liverpool in 2014 from the Saints​.

During his time at St. Mary's, Lambert, 35, managed to notch 117 goals on the south coast, a record which got him recognised by his boyhood club on Merseyside, a switch which would have presumably been a dream come true for the prolific, working-class hero.

But, after accepting that he would play second fiddle to the likes of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge despite being a weekly starter for Southampton formally, Lambert says that his move to Anfield ultimately lead him to 'lose something mentally'.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Lambert said: "I was getting well paid but I never started playing football for the money.

“And when I decided to go to Liverpool I sacrificed a regular first-team place and that was when I started to fall out of love with it.

“I never should have accepted being on the bench, even though Brendan Rodgers had made it clear to me I would be back-up for Suarez and Sturridge.

“I was never as quick or as technically good as the best players, but in my own head, when it came to actually playing, I could convince myself I was the best."

Whilst earning 11 caps for his country and scoring three goals in the process, Lambert only featured 36 times for Liverpool during his stint at the club in all competitions, a lack of football which ultimately stunted his confidence.

“But when I joined up with England I felt lucky to be there, and it was the same at Liverpool." He added.

“And when I look back now I realise I lost something mentally as a player by allowing that to happen.”

[paulrazor]

nothing wrong with what he says is there?

[Fromola]

He did start 11 games in 14/15 and 23 appearances which couldn't have been less than expected when he signed.

He was also 33 that season and very few strikers are playing regularly in the Premier League by that age. If he'd stayed at Southampton he might have had one more season at the most as a starter but he's a Liverpool fan he was hardly going to turn the chance down to play for us.

I don't blame him for saying that and being honest, but you'd like to hear that it was a joy to play for Liverpool etc. If he'd stayed at Southampton he'd have always regretted not signing for us, particularly as he drifted out the side there within a season or two.

[Agent99]

https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/lambert-labels-balotellis-training-habits-a-disgrace/7mvn7aut6vr61wae6f7iek3wl

That 14-15 season really was a shitshow.

[AndyMuller]

https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/lambert-labels-balotellis-training-habits-a-disgrace/7mvn7aut6vr61wae6f7iek3wl

That 14-15 season really was a shitshow.

Dark times.

[Smellytrabs]

Dark times.

I was gutted not to be starting ahead of Balotelli that seaosn, must have been even worse for Ricky.

[norecat]

Given his limited ability he should have been counting his lucky stars every morning that he got to play for Liverpool.

[bradders1011]

That away at Villa when he scored the second was great though.

[Claude Cat]

https://twitter.com/RealTomNumbers/status/1668049674522042371

Something in the water down in Southampton.

[classycarra]

https://twitter.com/RealTomNumbers/status/1668049674522042371

Something in the water down in Southampton.

"whether they know about it or not subconsciously, they use the techniques of.. manisfustations"

[stoa]

I've listened to him talk for more than three and a half minutes and I have no fucking clue what the fucking hell he's talking aobut. Like his way of thinking though about people just wanting to live normal lives while probably living in a nice big house with hundreds of thousands quid in the bank... What a fucking idiot...

[disgraced cake]

It amazes me how most footballers even survive after retiring. I'm sure the money helps some of them, but loads are just ... very stupid, to put it mildly.

Imagine how much shite him and Le Tissier would spew on a night out, fucking hell 

[tubby]

Made it through about a minute and a half before tapping out.  What on earth is he talking about?

[Crosby Nick]

Wake up sheeple.

[paulrazor]

Made it through about a minute and a half before tapping out.  What on earth is he talking about?

THIS

[doc_antonio]

Maybe 1 too many headers Ricky.

[Dench57]

couldn't make it past the halfway mark

all i could think of

[Chakan]

I mean while it's a load of tosh, the actual premise is good. Believe you can have a better life and act accordingly.

It's a nice thought.

[gazzalfc]

He's gone off the deep end on Twitter.

Gone full Magna Carta weirdo

[Jwils21]

Turned into a right cosmic scally hasn’t he

[I've been a good boy]

The woman at the end of that video with a proper serious face saying "yeah" like he's just made a very important point Confirms what we all knew, that footballers live on their own fucking planet.

[JP!]

They seem to like the phrase 'warrior poet' whatever the fuck that means.  No surprise the galactic wanker Le Tissier is involved.

[Titi Camara]

https://twitter.com/MonikerGeller/status/1679956627485589508

[tubby]

https://twitter.com/MonikerGeller/status/1679956627485589508

Did he just watch Ghostbusters 2 the night before?

[flyingcod]

Not too long ago the cranks only had a sandwich board that said 'The End Is Nigh", now social media has given them a huge foghorn to spout their dribble.

One of the retweet posts made by RL was a guy (Mark Attwood) who said we should go and read all David Icke books and that the "[space?] ships are real, he has seen them". 

Le Tiss has gone proper batshit mental.

I'm very much for free speech however one thing I find from the tinfoil hatters they can't seem to live a quiet life living off-grid. They always want to grab you constantly and shout "You need to see this, you are asleep, you are all wrong - ITS A CONSPIRACY!!!"

fc

[Titi Camara]

Did he just watch Ghostbusters 2 the night before?

The power or wanting/needing to belong, combined with a specific kind of person.....

[Hazell]

Did he just watch Ghostbusters 2 the night before?

that was my immediate thought as well.

[Crosby Nick]

Not too long ago the cranks only had a sandwich board that said 'The End Is Nigh", now social media has given them a huge foghorn to spout their dribble.

One of the retweet posts made by RL was a guy (Mark Attwood) who said we should go and read all David Icke books and that the "[space?] ships are real, he has seen them". 

Le Tiss has gone proper batshit mental.

I'm very much for free speech however one thing I find from the tinfoil hatters they can't seem to live a quiet life living off-grid. They always want to grab you constantly and shout "You need to see this, you are asleep, you are all wrong - ITS A CONSPIRACY!!!"

fc

Was he always a crank? How do people change and become one? Or is he just doing it for the grift?

[gerrardisgod]

Did he just watch Ghostbusters 2 the night before?

Only a matter of time before he’s putting water into his toaster.

[flyingcod]

Was he always a crank? How do people change and become one? Or is he just doing it for the grift?

Maybe he's always thought things like that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My wife says lockdown is an answer for many things, some people have come out of it not that well mentally speaking.

If you look at everything wanting to see a conspiracy, then you will probably always see one.

fc

[CornerFlag]

https://twitter.com/MonikerGeller/status/1679956627485589508

ah, Leilani Dowding, fountain of knowledge. I mean, those hydrogen and oxygen just love it when I tell them how much I want to slide into their DMs.

[stoa]

https://twitter.com/MonikerGeller/status/1679956627485589508

I loved it when in the beginning they just cut to the other two guys (who looked very much alike). Would have loved it even better, if there had been another 20 people and they had randomly cut to them every few seconds... The end of the video with the lady wearing a "Defund the media" hat definitely made up for the lack of cuts before...

[Garlicbread]

https://twitter.com/SaintLambo07/status/1702734074454876556

At it again...