Frank Lampard was left baffled by pictures from the huge drugs bust Down Under (Picture: Getty)

Ex-Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard was left near-speechless after he was informed that pictures of his face had been discovered in a £38million drugs bust in Australia.

Two duffel bags were seized by the Australian Federal Police and each and every brick – containing ‘ice meth’ – had bizarrely been stamped with photos of a suited-up Lampard giving a thumbs up.

The picture in question was taken while Lampard was giving a lap of honour at Stamford Bridge back in 2017 and appears on the former midfielder’s Wikipedia page.

Richard Prothero, an alleged trafficker, was arrested at gunpoint during the enormous haul, which occurred in the car park of Sydney’s Maroubra Surf Club.
The 37-year-old was subsequently charged with attempting to possess a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs. He made no application for bail while appearing in court.

The 95kg shipment of methamphetamine had been tracked from Los Angeles, before it wound up in east Sydney.

It goes without saying that Lampard, who was capped 106 times by the England national team, had no involvement whatsoever in the drugs ring and the 46-year-old could hardly believe his eyes when shown snaps from the incident.

The photo in question was taken at Stamford Bridge in 2017 (Picture: Australian Federal Police)

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