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

[Misfit]

Yes it's understandable he left us to better himself BUT sorry I disagree with you.

First "if what Sol has said is true" unlikely
Second . He'd already lied to the club and supporters regarding renewing his contract.
Third. He cost the club a transfer fee by letting his contract run down.
Fourth and worst. He then went to our arch rivals fully aware of what that meant to us fans.

Despicable is the only word I have for him.

Yep. And all those things were his right ultimately. If he gets depressed that it means some people think of him as a **** then tough shit, Sol. We make our choices and have to live with the consequences. And the consequences were hardly dire for the fat bastard eh? Medals and wonga, everything he wanted. Him wanting any more than that is childish frankly.

 

[Martinhotspur]

I lived near Sol Campbell used to see him playing football over West Ham park before he played for Spurs. Did not know he would go on to be such a colossal bellend.

 

[ultimateloner]

If his intention was always to run his contract down and leave on a free transfer then we didn't really have a say in the matter and therefore you can't say that we failed as a club. You can't force a player to leave even if you want them to if they have a contract. And that's all on the assumption that he'd told the club of his intentions in the first place: all the articles including direct quotes that MattyP has posted indicate that Campbell's words in public didn't tally with his actions in private - if so (and Sol was stringing us on by telling us that he'd stay) then the club is even less to blame for not having sold him sooner.

In short, he was a ****, and for all the other mistakes that THFC have made, his leaving Spurs doesn't seem to have been one of them.

There's no doubt he is greedy. But we have to look at ourselves. we were the ones who made the mistake.

 

[rich75]

He continually told the club and fans that he had no intention of leaving. He then ran down his contract and left on a free transfer.

He not only lied to everyone in and out of the club, he also cheated his "beloved" club out of his transfer fee.

He fuck us once then he double fucked us going to a rival club where he knew there would be added friction.

He cares about no one but himself.

Let's assume all this is absolutely as black and white as you've depicted it. Who gives a fuck. It was years ago, it doesn't matter anymore if it even mattered in the first place. Why bother with this elevated anger/bile/hatred ? He doesn't give a shit and nobody barring the equally unhinged Sol Campbell haters in this thread give a shit. It just seems such a waste of energy to keep on giving so much hate to the bloke.

 

[Mustard]

Fuck off ****

 

[fedupyid]

Sol Campbell does not matter anymore. The thing that mattered in the article was that Alan Sugar did not do his job and if it was not for Spurs, Amstrad would not exist anymore.

Alan Sugar left the club with poor foundations for any future owners of the club. Levy and Lewis have improved these foundations but they are doing it very slowly.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Let's assume all this is absolutely as black and white as you've depicted it. Who gives a fuck. It was years ago, it doesn't matter anymore if it even mattered in the first place. Why bother with this elevated anger/bile/hatred ? He doesn't give a shit and nobody barring the equally unhinged Sol Campbell haters in this thread give a shit. It just seems such a waste of energy to keep on giving so much hate to the bloke.

He doesn't give a shit? haha. I bet he cares a lot more than you think.

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

I lived near Sol Campbell used to see him playing football over West Ham park before he played for Spurs. Did not know he would go on to be such a colossal bellend.

Pity you didn't give him a good kick up the arse back then and tell him not to turn into a ****.

And for all those saying 'oh it's in the past, we shouldn't hate him now' etc. Bollocks. Never forgive, Never forget.

 

[Misfit]

What really hurts him is that whilst we hold particular disdain for him, I've not met a fan of another team who didn't hold what he did in contempt.

Not even my gooner mates. After gigglng at me they say that the way he did it showed him up Snd the assnal faithful never took to him. Quality player ect ect but not a leg-end.

It obviously bothers him to this very day get most people know him to be a bit of a wrongun'.

Ps - typing a message n my iPhone ir iPad on this forum is now a laggy, difficult to edit nightmare.

 

[talkshowhost86]

Too crazy...didn't read

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Let's assume all this is absolutely as black and white as you've depicted it. Who gives a fuck. It was years ago, it doesn't matter anymore if it even mattered in the first place. Why bother with this elevated anger/bile/hatred ? He doesn't give a shit and nobody barring the equally unhinged Sol Campbell haters in this thread give a shit. It just seems such a waste of energy to keep on giving so much hate to the bloke.

I'm sure the majority of supporters who love our club, watched him week in week out, spend lots of money following the club and listened to his undying love for our club at every press conference back then are not unhinged but I bet most of them think he is a ****

You obviously don't. I can't understand why not?

 

[mkkid]

In my opinion there a gap in sky team for a black football presenter he wants the job and if wasn't for him stabbing nearly every club he played for in the back,he'd get the job.
He keeps trying to say forgive and let's forget.(when hell freezes over,iii let it go)
If sky employed him regularly,I'd complain and then cancel my subscription.

 

[Ionman34]

I find it quite ironic that some on here label the club as naive, for believing his lies, yet use his 'claims' that he was one of the lower paid players, and that Sugar lied to him, as a vehicle to bash the club.

Honestly, some of you have sand between your ears.

 

[longtimespur]

I find it quite ironic that some on here label the club as naive, for believing his lies, yet use his 'claims' that he was one of the lower paid players, and that Sugar lied to him, as a vehicle to bash the club.

Honestly, some of you have sand between your ears.

Or maybe just Levi/ENIC haters?

 

[rich75]

I'm sure the majority of supporters who love our club, watched him week in week out, spend lots of money following the club and listened to his undying love for our club at every press conference back then are not unhinged but I bet most of them think he is a ****

You obviously don't. I can't understand why not?

I just don't give a shit. It was crap at the time but now, couldn't care less.

Besides for all I know he's right and the club did piss him about, it wouldn't be the first time they've done that.

Why go to arsenal and not someone else ? Well why the fuck not, they were one of the most successful clubs in the uk if not the world. If he wanted to win they were a decent bet without having to up sticks and leave the country.

 

[Wellspurs]

The one good thing he did do was to sharpen up Levy... no one fucks us over anymore.

 

[Spurger King]

The one good thing he did do was to sharpen up Levy... no one fucks us over anymore.

Frazier Campbell says hi.

 

[Wellspurs]

Frazier Campbell says hi.

In what way? He was just a stop gap when we let Berba go.... Now Archway Steel they really are taking the piss.

 

[Spurger King]

In what way? He was just a stop gap when we let Berba go.... Now Archway Steel they really are taking the piss.

In the words of Juande Ramos - "we were left with Defoe and Darren Bent...we were left with no strikers."

I think Levy has got a lot better since then, but allowing the club to end up with only two Premier League- quality strikers (and losing Keane and Berbatov), then essentially being bent over backwards and put in a situation where we had to sign Frazier Campbell on loan out of pure desperation, was pathetic.

In the off chance that he turned out to be good, we couldn't even secure an option to buy. In essence we got the price we wanted for Berbatov, and in exchange we left the squad massively short up front, whilst being the suckers who could test out whether their prodigy was any good or not (as well as taking our best player from us....again).

 

[myhartlane]

The progression was'nt there because our best players kept jumping ship and instead of investment to move the club forward, we had to invest to replace players like the mentally deluded Campbell.

Just imagine how we could have progressed with a CB pairing of Campbell and King.

I guess that's his point isn't it? The best players left because the investment wasn't there.