Lifelong Liverpool fan Lambert ready for new season

Completing his dream move at the age of 32, Liverpool forward Rickie Lambert cannot wait for the start of the new Premier League season, when he is set to make an emotional face-off on his Anfield debut The start of the new English Premier League season this weekend is exciting for virtually every football fan in the world, but there is one person starting the campaign with a bigger deal of emotions.

Liverpool forward Rickie Lambert, a lifelong fan of the Reds, will play his first game for the team against Southampton – the club he has played for during the last five years. Lambert says him facing his former club on the first day of the season on Aug. 16 was something written in the stars.

“I think I was in the house waiting for the fixtures to come through, I heard it and just laughed really, I couldn’t believe it. It was always going to be,” he said while talking at LFC Member’s Family Day where members were able to see the first team train. “I said before ‘it’s gonna be Southampton,’ I thought it was gonna be at St. Mary’s, but it’s at Anfield. It was inevitable.”

The 32-year-old’s return to Merseyside is surely one of the Premier League’s most romantic stories this season. He was born and brought up on Merseyside, joined Liverpool at 10 and yet was released as a teenager. After, he plied his trade in several clubs, including Blackpool, Macclesfield Town, Stockport County, Rochdale, Bristol Rovers and Southampton. During his long journey, he has scored goals in every single one of English football’s top four leagues.

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