Top 5 - Favourite Chelsea Players (No. 2)

2) Frank Lampard

There's simply never been a more consistent performer for the club in my lifetime.

Incredibly, Lampard Junior is fast approaching his fourth consecutive season of scoring 20 goals or more (better even than a certain midfielder at Liverpool).

However, as with said certain midfielder, it's not just the goals that maketh the man but the ability to single handedly grab the game by the scruff of the neck and make things happen.

Lampard does it in a more understated way, but when watching a Chelsea team in recent years it's unbelievable how much of everything good comes as a direct or indirect result of his input. Everything just seems to flow through him.

There are always moments that stick in your mind when you think to yourself, "Yep, that player is undoubted quality" and the moment in question was his goal against Barcelona in a 4-2 thriller of a 2nd leg in the Champions League Quarter Final's a few years back.

Controlling the ball on his chest, he swivelled and hit the ball on the half volley with what seemed consumate ease. Marvellous.

I have to admit, for no little time after his signing from West Ham for £11m, I did wonder whether he was ever to reach that level of quality. However, slowly but surely he established himself as a linchpin of Jose Mourinho's Championship winning side and it was rightly so, that he and John Terry were the focal point of the bus top celebrations that followed our first Premier League title in 2005.