Former England striker Rickie Lambert makes bizarre claim about talking ‘positively’ to water

Former England striker Rickie Lambert has claimed showing gratitude to water will make it clean.

The 11-cap international, who represented the Three Lions at the 2014 World Cup, had a distinguished playing career that saw him play for Southampton and Liverpool before hanging up his boots in 2017.

But he remains outspoken online, and has now revealed his bizarre theory about talking to water.

Speaking in a clip that has gone viral on social media, Lambert said: ‘They’ve [scientists] done a test where you spoke positively to one glass of water, froze it, spoke negatively to another glass of water, froze it. Then [they] examined the ice.

‘The negativity water was full of holes and blackness. The glass of water that was spoke to positively was full of crystals.

Rickie Lambert (pictured) has claimed talking positively to water makes it clean

Lambert won 11 caps for England during his career, and remains outspoken online

‘They’ve done experiments to the word, to the word, and the water responded the same way every time if you spoke to it a certain way.

‘The one word where water responds in the most beautiful way and [produced] the most beautiful crystals is showing gratitude to water. So everything I was saying about manifestation is it down to showing gratitude.’

Lambert’s revelation has got fans talking online, with the majority struggling to take the 41-year-old seriously.

‘Just realised Rickie Lambert has probably spent at least one evening screaming at glass of water. People are something else,’ one fan wrote on Twitter.

‘So I spoke to my water last night then put in the freezer. I couldn’t drink it this morning because it was frozen. Thanks for nothing Rickie Lambert,’ another joked.

Meanwhile, one fan posted a tongue-in-cheek response, posing the question: ‘Water has feelings now?’

There was also some concern for Lambert, with one fan writing: ‘Seriously worried about Rickie Lambert…’

The strange claim by Lambert comes off the back of another video that he posted online on Friday.

In the video, Lambert stated: ‘I withdraw my consent to be governed by any corrupt, compromised, belligerent, criminal parliament or government. I will not comply.’

He also changed his profile picture to an image of the statement, just minutes after fellow ex-Southampton striker Matt Le Tissier did the same thing on his own Twitter account.

Le Tissier has become a controversial figure himself in recent years, regularly airing his views online.

He was sacked from his role on Soccer Saturday by Sky in August 2020, and recently opened up on the reasons for his dismissal on William Hill’s Up Front with Simon Jordan.

Le Tissier admitted his decision to not join his colleagues in wearing a BLM badge on the show did not go down well, and conceded his decision to spread conspiracy theories on Covid on his social media did not help his cause either.

The 54-year-old was also criticised last year for retweeting a post that appeared to suggest the media were lying about the horrors of the war in Ukraine.

Le Tissier later deleted the post and apologised, and has called for people to ‘move on’ from the incident.