Michael Arnold Lambert (born 20 May 1950) is an English former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a winger. He started his career with Newmarket Town before becoming a professional and played for both

Ipswich Town Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The club currently competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Ipswich Town were founded in 1878 but did not turn ...

and

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third level of the English football league system. Peterborough United formed in ...

. Lambert was also a cricketer and was on the staff at Lord's. He once represented England as 12th man against The West Indies and although he didn't get to field at any point, he did carry the drinks on and got to meet

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in The Windies dressing room. Whilst playing for Ipswich, he made 210 appearances, and played as a substitute in the 1978 FA Cup Final He ended his professional career with Peterborough United. Lambert is now a regular supporter at Portman Road. Lambert also played

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

at minor counties level for

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...

from 1968 to 1979, making five appearances in the

Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship or National County Championship is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national counties (previously ca ...

Honours

Ipswich Town *

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winner

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

Individual * Ipswich Town Hall of Fame: Inducted 2015

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Players of Ipswich Town F.C.
1950 births Living people People from Balsham English men's footballers Men's association football wingers Newmarket Town F.C. players Ipswich Town F.C. players Vancouver Whitecaps (1974–1984) players Highlands Park F.C. players Peterborough United F.C. players Eastern Sports Club footballers Chelmsford City F.C. players English Football League players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players English expatriate sportspeople in Canada Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada English expatriate men's footballers English cricketers Cambridgeshire cricketers Footballers from Cambridgeshire 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-footy-midfielder-1950s-stub