My wife Christine use to help me make some football decisions at difficult times at Chelsea: Frank Lampard

Don't worry, she's not picking what fullback we're going to play that weekend!

"Sometimes, I go, 'Christine, what do you think about this problem? I've got a player here and he didn't turn up for training yesterday.

But we still probably need him on the weekend, what do you think?' Frank Lampard told the High Performance Podcast.

"And she goes, 'Does he have a girlfriend, a wife? Is there a problem? Have you spoken to them? Maybe you should speak to them.' And I'm like, 'yeah'.

"I'm very fortunate to have someone to bounce things off of at home. She definitely coaches me and I do throw a lot of things off Christine.

"She's not picking what fullback we're going to play that weekend, but at the same time, if I have certain issues which are life issues, and actually football issues sometimes, I can definitely go home and ask. It's a different view, a different opinion."

Frank and Christine married in December 2015 at St Paul's church in Knightsbridge, West London. The couple welcomed their daughter Patricia, two, in 2018.

Christine is a also stepmother to Frank's eldest daughters Luna, 15, and Isla, 13.