There isn’t much love lost between Leeds United and Frank Lampard.
Frank Lampard appears to have taken a swipe at how long Leeds United have been absent from the Premier League.
Lampard’s Derby County side visit Leeds in the second leg of Wednesday’s playoff semi-final, after losing 1-0 to Marcelo Bielsa’s troops at Pride Park.
It will be the fourth time that the legendary English midfielder has come up against the Elland Road club as a manger this season.
The 40-year-old is something of a pantomime villain among many Leeds fans due to the Spygate scandal, which saw the Whites fined £200,000 by the English Football League earlier this calendar year.
Fans of the West Yorkshire club devised a song about Lampard to the tune of Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis, and belted it out at Pride Park on Saturday – something he has no problem with.
Quizzed about the song on Derbyshire Live, he said: “It’s good fun. Being a Chelsea player, there was always a rivalry with Leeds. I didn’t play against them much as we were in the Premier League! I’ll take the song all day long.”
Leeds haven’t played a Premier League game for 15 years following the financial turmoil which resulted in their relegation way back in 2004.
But if things go to plan on Wednesday then United will be 90 minutes away from an emotional and long-awaited return.
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