Frank Lampard and John Terry’s despicable bender

Flicking through the heartfelt pages of Totally Frank, the 2006 autobiography of Frank Lampard, it's clear the sensitive midfielder was deeply affected by 9/11:

But judging by his 12-hour bender the following day, Frank got over things pretty quickly.

As a mark of respect, Chelsea’s UEFA Cup tie against Levski Sofia was postponed and the squad were granted an unexpected day off.

Reading the room like Kurt Zouma at a cat sanctuary, a 20-year-old Lamps, along with teammates John Terry, Jody Morris and Eidur Gudjohnsen, and Leicester defender Frank Sinclair, headed out to celebrate.

After a boozy lunch to whet the whistle, the boys hit the road, stripping, swearing and vomiting their way through a string of suburban pubs.

“They were all hurling abuse at people and chucking things at the landlord”, one shellshocked punter recalled. “Gudjohnsen was hammered and shouting swear words, and Lampard, Morris and Sinclair urinated in a bin in the street.”

Stop number five on the lads’ tour saw them arrive at the unlikely watering hole of Heathrow’s Holiday Inn, where they met a group of grieving American tourists, stranded at the airport when their flights were grounded.

According to reports, one of the players flashed his knob at a shocked crowd watching events on TV, and the boys were escorted out after harassing girls at the bar.

“They were utterly disgusting”, manager Vishal Ramkisson explained, “they just didn’t seem to care about what had happened.”

Not content with their day of sin, the gang headed next door to the AirBowl bowling alley, and slid head first down the lanes. “Sinclair almost had his head chopped off by the mechanism", recalled one staff member.

When news of the lads’ antics broke, the players were fined two weeks wages and dropped from the England squad.

But Lampard suffered the double whammy of having the story dug up when he signed for MLS outfit New York City in 2014.

Awkward!