Flashback: Harry Redknapp predicted 18-year-old Frank Lampard will go right to the very top

Amid all the speculation that Frank Lampard’s days are now numbered at Chelsea, a new video has hit YouTube reminding people how Lampard has received negative comments throughout his career only to come through the other side with flying colours.

The video in question dates back to 1996, when a fresh-faced Frank was an 18-year-old just breaking into Harry Redknapp’s first team at West Ham.

Filmed at a West Ham event in which Redknapp and his nephew Lampard were sitting on a panel, the footage captures an incredible moment in which an Irons’ fan calls out the then teenager.

The question from the audience was harsh, as an unnamed fan wondered whether the publicity Lampard was then getting was warranted “because personally I don’t think he’s quite good enough yet.”

Redknapp’s reply was superb.

He’s good enough and he definitely will be good enough… I get paid to make judgement on players… I’d tell you now, without any shadow of a doubt they’ll be no comparison between what Frank Lampard will achieve in football and what Scotty Cannon achieves in football…. There is no favouritism… I’m telling you now he’ll go right to the very top!

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Watch Harry Redknapp’s defence of Frank Lampard from 1996 below.