Here are your Everton evening headlines for Saturday, April 2.
Frank Lampard names teenage Everton midfielder who has 'everything'
Everton manager Frank Lampard has spoken of his excitement with a number of players the Everton academy are currently producing. And, the boss admitted that one particular youth star could have an outside chance of involvement against West Ham United on Sunday.
Anthony Gordon has enjoyed a breakout season this term after completing an impressive rise through the ranks at Finch Farm, and has now started every match under Lampard. But it's not just the winger that the new manager has been impressive with in terms of academy products since he has joined.
A number of under-23s regulars have been spotted in first-team training over the course of recent weeks. The senior manager loves being able to bring them into the setup and has praised their previous coaching and attitude when given their opportunity.
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Lampard admitted: "I'm excited and I love the young players training with us, they all do it because they deserve to be here.
"Dobs [Lewis Dobbin] has trained really well since I first came in. It's a shame for him that he's in a part of the pitch where we do have a lot of numbers so it's been hard for him to get minutes. But he has trained at a really high level.
"Stanley Mills has trained really well, I know his dad! He's trained really well, ad with a great attitude and with a lot of ability as well. He's one who's come in and impressed all of us with all parts of himself.
"Isaac Price I've been really, really impressed with. In terms of him as a midfield player, he's got everything."
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Frank Lampard fume explained as West Ham United change mind over David Moyes
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.
“Frank junior ended up playing more than 150 games for West Ham, he was part of the team that won the Intertoto Cup with the likes of Paolo Di Canio, Paulo Wanchope and Rio Ferdinand , a really good team that finished fifth in 1999. He was a core part of the side but some fans just never really liked him. I don’t know why. Maybe they thought it was nepotism or perhaps they thought that despite his decent scoring record, he just wasn’t very good.”
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