It has been claimed that Frank Lampard may have a higher IQ than Carol Vorderman. Expert tested the intelligence of the entire Chelsea squad. The footballer returned one of the highest scores. The former public schoolboy now 30 years of age is now referred to as The Professor by Stamford Bridge team-mates says the Daily Star.
Brian English who is serving the Chelsea team as the club doctor conducted the test. It was a part of research into how head injuries can affect footballers’ neurological development.
According to the research John Terry was in the top 3. Lampard scored one of the highest set of marks ever recorded by the company doing the tests and even higher than him said Dr English. However, he declined to release the England midfielder’s precise score, but the daily star quoted that sources are claiming that it was more than 150 on the IQ scale, putting him in the most intelligent 0.1 per cent of the population.
Vorderman, former Countdown presenter famed for her mathematical prowess and he has an IQ of 154. The national average is 100.
Frank Lampard was educated at the fee-paying Brentwood School in Essex. There he had obtained 12 GCSEs – including an A in Latin – before turning professional at his first club West Ham.
