The key flaws with Judas' argument: 1.) He received 73 England caps. How can The FA be "institutionally racist" when a black player receives that many caps? And he's not the most-capped black player, either. 2.) He was never club captain at Arsenal. Adams, Vieira and Henry were during his tenure there.
At most he can claim Arsenal were guilty of anti-English discrimination, considering the fact that Vieira and Henry aren't exactly the most caucasian of players.
1) Most football fans apart from arsenal thought Campbells behaviour in how he left spurs was disgraceful...how would these same fans respect him as england captain? 2) his england career was from 1996 to 2007...how the **** was he ever going to be the england captain for 10 yrs???? 3) he wasn't club captain ahat arsenal so were they racist too? If he has an actual reason to say that all, some or one of the england managers he served under ... venables, hoddle, keegan, taylor, sven, maclaren...were racist then he should tell us what it is rather than just mouth off and belittle racism. A young scottish football had to be substituted on sat in a Scottish 2nd division match due to the amount of terrible racist abuse he received...the Scottish fa and police are investigating...this is an example of racism...campbell seems to be using racism to sell his book...which makes him an even bigger **** than I gave him credit for
Black,white,yellow or blue...if you've got it you've got it. If you ain't you ain't!....and you ain't!
Something else that has been conveniently overlooked is that Bobby Moore and Billy Wright are the only players to captain England for ten years, which undermines Judas' comments ludicrous beyond belief. And let's be honest, if The FA were institutionally racist, can he explain the following: Paul Ince played captained England seven times Rio Ferdinand captained England seven times ...and, most importantly of all... Judas himself captained England three times He captained England as many times as Bobby Charlton, Alf Ramsey and Frank Lampard, for ****'s sake - and he captained England more than numerous white players ever have, not least David Seaman, Ray Clemence, Scott Parker, Gareth Barry, Martin Keown and Mark Wright.
His list of "attributes" include being traitorous, devious, deluded, terminally conceited, and being as trustworthy as a starving crocodile. Total piece of ****, whatever the colour of his skin!...
Quite frankly, he needs to be starved of attention and publicity until he makes a public apology to: The FA, the various England managers during his international career (Terry Venables, Glenn Hoddle, Kevin Keegan, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren, Fabio Capello), and the Kick It Out campaign. And that's the short list.
Just listened to his beeb interview He seems to have taken on the Joey Barton mantle of semi-literate pseudo academic, only difference is Barton can be marginally convincing, at times. Pompous cvnt.
This. He wasn't the first black England international player and he actually captained the country himself along with Ince, if any black player should have captained England during his internalional time as a pro it was Ince based on position, success and being a big gob and also being the "guvnor", as you pointed out its his book that's the issue not the pretend racism he's used to try and sell it. Very sad that the media pandered to his promotion without ridicule.
Sol Campbell has no shame in playing the race card. It's totally despicable and by playing the race issue Sol abuses and insults the real victims of racism
"Just listened to his beeb interview" How he got time on BBC London last night is beyond me. I was expecting a link-up on his Spurs player claims to yer usual BBC axe-grinding on Spurs and the Y word. Or at least that plank Herbert to give a (un)sound-bite.
5 live done a piece on it last night,on the monday night club,they played the interview,and talked about it,all i can say is thank god for Steve Claridge,the only one who talked any sense
Wright summed it up perfectly on Sunday's 606. Judas was captain material but there were better candidates in front of him, for all kinds of reasons, throughout his time with the England team, and as it is he still had the armband 3 times. To suggest that those reasons were racial is a very, very silly accusation.
