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Published 10:24 16 Jul 2023 BST
Updated 10:24 16 Jul 2023 BST

Football fans have claimed Rickie Lambert has "lost the plot" after he suggested that talking to water positively makes it clean. No, seriously.
Lambert - a former Bristol Rovers, Southampton and Liverpool striker - has never been afraid to speak his mind and has aired many of his views on social media.
In a recent clip going viral on social media, the ex-England international spoke in a group chat about a recent experiment he had seen in which they discovered the benefits of speaking to a glass of water nicely.
He 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.
"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."
Unsurprisingly, many were left perplexed by Lambert's comments, with one fan saying: "I dont know what I thought Rickie Lambert would be up to these days but it wasn’t this."
Another said: "What’s that? You were wondering what ex Southampton, Liverpool and England striker Rickie Lambert was up to now? Well, wonder no more."
"Water has feelings now?" wrote a third.
"Rickie Lambert thanks his water and apologies to it before he drinks it pass it on," said a fourth.
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