Sol:"I don't think people at Spurs realised how big I was going to become."

[StanSpur]

Great player playing for a poor team and decides to move on...... Really time some spurs supporters move on. Maybe he was treated poorly by our management and not offered a good contract. Truth is without him we may well have faced relegation once or twice so we should be somewhat grateful. Yes he acts like an idiot at times but its really not worth all the hatred as it just makes spurs supporters look like silly little boys.

 

[Stoof]

Great player playing for a poor team and decides to move on...... Really time some spurs supporters move on. Maybe he was treated poorly by our management and not offered a good contract. Truth is without him we may well have faced relegation once or twice so we should be somewhat grateful. Yes he acts like an idiot at times but its really not worth all the hatred as it just makes spurs supporters look like silly little boys.

Hmmm. I think you are probably glossing over the fact that he single-handedly cost us circa £20 million, lied to us consistently and made us look unbelievably stupid. More to the point that he still doesn't think he did anything wrong.

He is a fucking chopper.

 

[Ionman34]

Great player playing for a poor team and decides to move on...... Really time some spurs supporters move on. Maybe he was treated poorly by our management and not offered a good contract. Truth is without him we may well have faced relegation once or twice so we should be somewhat grateful. Yes he acts like an idiot at times but its really not worth all the hatred as it just makes spurs supporters look like silly little boys.

No it doesn't .............So ner.

In all seriousness though, it's not like he's faded into the background and we keep resurrecting the hatred, he's doing that quite admirably himself.

In another thread, I compared your team to your first love. I don't know about anyone else, but he shat on my first love so I detest him as a result. I won't go with hate as I really can't say I've ever hated anyone in my life.

I do detest good though.

And don't demean the guy, he earnt that detestation, I'm just paying him in full.

 

[NEVILLEB]

Nothing wrong with him leaving...

But going to Arsenal on a free and then wondering why everyone's upset just makes him crazy. Monstrous ego.

 

[WestBelfast Spurs]

Sol Campbell used to play for us and left to join Arse***, ive never heard this before

 

[Coyboy]

Great player playing for a poor team and decides to move on...... Really time some spurs supporters move on. Maybe he was treated poorly by our management and not offered a good contract. Truth is without him we may well have faced relegation once or twice so we should be somewhat grateful. Yes he acts like an idiot at times but its really not worth all the hatred as it just makes spurs supporters look like silly little boys.

But we aren't re-opening old wounds, he is. This pathetic and childish "sack Neville give me the job" plea is just the latest. The "It's coz I'm black that I wasn't captain of England for 10 years" was the one before. He needs media attention, he needs a scapegoat because despite having a very successful and rewarding career he still needs to whine.

This "saved us from relegation" line is bollocks. What central defender saves teams from relegation? The closest we came was in 97/98 when we brought Klinsmann back. He and Ginola saved us and allowed Armstrong, Ferdinand and even Ruel Fox to score the goals to keep us up. We were hardly solid as a rock at the back. And after that we never came close to going down.

Seriously if Sol Campbell just shut up and got on with his life, I wouldn't see the need to ever mention him on here.

 

[MattyP]

The fucking prick would do well to remember this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/1095819.stm

 

[longtimespur]

Surely with this article we are just pampering to his inflated ego.
Ignore and forget him

 

[Metalhead]

Great player playing for a poor team and decides to move on...... Really time some spurs supporters move on. Maybe he was treated poorly by our management and not offered a good contract. Truth is without him we may well have faced relegation once or twice so we should be somewhat grateful. Yes he acts like an idiot at times but its really not worth all the hatred as it just makes spurs supporters look like silly little boys.

I agree. I get why people were angry at the time but it was a loooooong time ago (I thought I would add the extra letter 'o' to accentuate the long time period) and I guess he's just become a kind of pantomime villain. In this instance though, people are reacting to Sol's comments rather than dragging it up again though.

 

[whitesocks]

I agree. I get why people were angry at the time but it was a loooooong time ago ...

This is a story that will pass down from generation to generation

 

[JerryGarcia]

Great player playing for a poor team and decides to move on...... Really time some spurs supporters move on. Maybe he was treated poorly by our management and not offered a good contract. Truth is without him we may well have faced relegation once or twice so we should be somewhat grateful. Yes he acts like an idiot at times but its really not worth all the hatred as it just makes spurs supporters look like silly little boys.

Every time there's a Campbell thread someone pops up saying "get over it" or "move on" but it's always a load of guff and it has to be explained to them that none of us spend every minute of our days thinking about him or what he did to us. However, It was Campbell's decision to screw us over so why should we just forget about it? He didn't simply "decide to move on" like you suggest either, he fucked his club, his fans and even his own family in one of the worst possible ways while at the same time telling us he was staying. He should rightly have to live with that decision in my and many others opinions, I don't care if he's 90 years old he'll always be a Judas.

 

[nferno]

Cockjuggling Unclefucking Nuthugging Twat.

It's so funny how he gets SO defensive about the gay stuff, he thinks it reflects that he isn't gay but really it just adds fuel to the fire... Needs to take a page out of the book of Clooney or Jon Galecki From the Big Bang theory on that one.

 

[jolsnogross]

I think the thing that annoys the little-minded haters so much is that Campbell was very successful after he left, which helps underline that he was right to leave us. The same was true for Sheringham, and true for Carrick, and will be proven true (if it hasn't already) for Modric and Bale. The only criticism I'd have for any of them, including Sol, is that they didn't stay and lead us out of obscurity and probably over-emphasize their influence on already successful teams they left us for. But even that's a bit harsh, because the good 'loyal' players who stayed with us, like Anderton and King, probably regret the fact they have only a Coca-Cola cup final or whatever to remember instead of Championship run-ins and big titles that their talent probably deserved.

So if it makes grown men feel good about themselves to shout racist, homophobic, or just 'Judas' slurs at a player who left one employer for another, then fair enough. But even if you're not spending more than a few seconds thinking that way, those thoughts would be better spent on getting our own house in order. And maybe not looking so petty and small minded when an 'invincible' - which is an achievement that may last the test of time - just tells his side of the story.

 

[JerryGarcia]

I think the thing that annoys the little-minded haters so much is that Campbell was very successful after he left, which helps underline that he was right to leave us. The same was true for Sheringham, and true for Carrick, and will be proven true (if it hasn't already) for Modric and Bale. The only criticism I'd have for any of them, including Sol, is that they didn't stay and lead us out of obscurity and probably over-emphasize their influence on already successful teams they left us for. But even that's a bit harsh, because the good 'loyal' players who stayed with us, like Anderton and King, probably regret the fact they have only a Coca-Cola cup final or whatever to remember instead of Championship run-ins and big titles that their talent probably deserved.

So if it makes grown men feel good about themselves to shout racist, homophobic, or just 'Judas' slurs at a player who left one employer for another, then fair enough. But even if you're not spending more than a few seconds thinking that way, those thoughts would be better spent on getting our own house in order. And maybe not looking so petty and small minded when an 'invincible' - which is an achievement that may last the test of time - just tells his side of the story.

What a crock of shit, congratulations for lumping people who don't like what Campbell did to us in with racists and homophobes. You don't deserve a more detailed reply.

 

[Spurger King]

I think the thing that annoys the little-minded haters so much is that Campbell was very successful after he left, which helps underline that he was right to leave us. The same was true for Sheringham, and true for Carrick, and will be proven true (if it hasn't already) for Modric and Bale. The only criticism I'd have for any of them, including Sol, is that they didn't stay and lead us out of obscurity and probably over-emphasize their influence on already successful teams they left us for. But even that's a bit harsh, because the good 'loyal' players who stayed with us, like Anderton and King, probably regret the fact they have only a Coca-Cola cup final or whatever to remember instead of Championship run-ins and big titles that their talent probably deserved.

So if it makes grown men feel good about themselves to shout racist, homophobic, or just 'Judas' slurs at a player who left one employer for another, then fair enough. But even if you're not spending more than a few seconds thinking that way, those thoughts would be better spent on getting our own house in order. And maybe not looking so petty and small minded when an 'invincible' - which is an achievement that may last the test of time - just tells his side of the story.

Wow. You really don't have a clue. I suspect that in your head you imagined this to come out as some sort of profound, holier than thou statement to educate the ignorant, but really all it has done is highlight your poor grasp of the events.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

I think the thing that annoys the little-minded haters so much is that Campbell was very successful after he left, which helps underline that he was right to leave us. The same was true for Sheringham, and true for Carrick, and will be proven true (if it hasn't already) for Modric and Bale. The only criticism I'd have for any of them, including Sol, is that they didn't stay and lead us out of obscurity and probably over-emphasize their influence on already successful teams they left us for. But even that's a bit harsh, because the good 'loyal' players who stayed with us, like Anderton and King, probably regret the fact they have only a Coca-Cola cup final or whatever to remember instead of Championship run-ins and big titles that their talent probably deserved.

So if it makes grown men feel good about themselves to shout racist, homophobic, or just 'Judas' slurs at a player who left one employer for another, then fair enough. But even if you're not spending more than a few seconds thinking that way, those thoughts would be better spent on getting our own house in order. And maybe not looking so petty and small minded when an 'invincible' - which is an achievement that may last the test of time - just tells his side of the story.

No one really cares that he left. Its the way he went about it.

 

[jolsnogross]

No one really cares that he left. Its the way he went about it.

But I think he's trying to explain that. He felt he wasn't being treated well at Spurs. He thinks mediocre players were being paid three times as much as he was (and I've got no reason to doubt that). He felt the club was a bit of a shambles and changed manager too often. Those are all things that Arsenal were not at the time. They all seem like reasonable complaints to me from an ambitious footballer. So he went to them and he didn't really owe us a transfer fee, which reflects more on the mismanagement of Spurs at the time than it does on him.

So I think a lot of people seem pretty animated still that he left, who he left for, and the fact that he left for free (thereby leveraging his own deal upward). Sheringham said the same thing about Spurs when he went to United for a pittance - Spurs was too slap-dash and moving on for the best terms possible was a smart decision for a player.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

But I think he's trying to explain that. He felt he wasn't being treated well at Spurs. He thinks mediocre players were being paid three times as much as he was (and I've got no reason to doubt that). He felt the club was a bit of a shambles and changed manager too often. Those are all things that Arsenal were not at the time. They all seem like reasonable complaints to me from an ambitious footballer. So he went to them and he didn't really owe us a transfer fee, which reflects more on the mismanagement of Spurs at the time than it does on him.

So I think a lot of people seem pretty animated still that he left, who he left for, and the fact that he left for free (thereby leveraging his own deal upward). Sheringham said the same thing about Spurs when he went to United for a pittance - Spurs was too slap-dash and moving on for the best terms possible was a smart decision for a player.

Do you know how he left??

 

[jolsnogross]

Do you know how he left??

Please do explain.

 

[Mullers]

But I think he's trying to explain that. He felt he wasn't being treated well at Spurs. He thinks mediocre players were being paid three times as much as he was (and I've got no reason to doubt that). He felt the club was a bit of a shambles and changed manager too often. Those are all things that Arsenal were not at the time. They all seem like reasonable complaints to me from an ambitious footballer. So he went to them and he didn't really owe us a transfer fee, which reflects more on the mismanagement of Spurs at the time than it does on him.

So I think a lot of people seem pretty animated still that he left, who he left for, and the fact that he left for free (thereby leveraging his own deal upward). Sheringham said the same thing about Spurs when he went to United for a pittance - Spurs was too slap-dash and moving on for the best terms possible was a smart decision for a player.

But he lied, he made the club think he would sign a contract and he never did thus causing us to miss out on a transfer fee. If he had said that he wanted to leave instead of deciving the club everyone would´ve known where they stood.