It's not the clubs he went to thats the problem and it's not the fact he went to clubs bigger/better than us, It's the fact Campbell & his agent (his father) hung us out to dry in the process by leading the club on, making us believe he wanted to be here. Instead he used our interest to gain a bigger wage.
IMO there is nothing wrong with players who play against clubs who they have played for before celebrating. However if they celebrated with their own team mates, rather either run to either their own fans or rile the fans from the club they used to play for, most fans wouldn't feel it was disrespectful.
This whole non celebrating thing becoming fashionable is really pissing me off. It shows a complete lack of respect to the player's current club. If we sign Jelavic and he scores the goal against Everton at the end of the season that keeps us up but doesn't celebrate I'd be furious. It's f**king ridiculous - who pays your wages, your current club or your old one? Now f**king celebrate you ****.
Players will high five current team mates and that sort of thing, but not run over and get pumped up in front of the crowd. I think it shows great respect and dignity. I have a lot of respect for Graham not celebrating at Swansea, especially as it broke his drought.
Everyone is different but I thought it was a disgrace. He's not from Swansea, he doesnt support them, he wasnt with them for long AND they forced him out. He should've gone ****ing ballistic and mooned their fans.
Bollocks. As Jamie Carragher pointed out that night, if Swansea scored where there fans not going to celebrate out of respect for Danny Graham? Give me a Fraizer Campbell or Dean Marney over this **** any day of the week.
Precisely. Maybe no need to go ballistic but a normal celebration should at least be done. Didn't Jay Rogriguez join the long line of pansy bastards last week? I really don't know what might come next, are players going to start patting their heads or doing mauled by the tigers as some sad mark of respect to their former club? Chants should be started to tell these doofuses to **** off back to their former clubs if they mean so much.
100% agree. And what about a journeyman player who has had 10 or so clubs? Steve Claridge would never have celebrated a single goal.
It's only the first goal against a former club isn't it? RVP celebrates against Arsenal now. I don't see the big deal.
What?!? Are you suggesting there's a rule to it? And if that's the case why is the first goal against them less offensive than any subsequent goals? So if a player gets a hat-trick this 'rule' suggests he should calmly walk away after the first goal and then celebrate like f**k the next 2? And Ramsey didnt celebrate his 2nd goal against Cardiff. It just sickens me. If your old club means so much to you how about you ask them to pay you every week instead of us stupid bastards doing it. As Carmine might say, gtf.
Ok I think this is another of those cultural differences. In Aus when players in Aussie Rules play against former clubs they're usually treated with a lot of respect and it is mutual, and I think any sort of display of mutual respect for the recognition of the player's service to the club is a good thing.
Didn't Ramsey start patting his head like he was worshipping some kind of god? If I was a Royal Arsenal fan I'd want to kick his smarmy little face back to Cardiff.
Fraizer Campbell was asked by a Liverpool fan if he was going to sign for Hull City as he'd just helped get us promotion. He said no its a ****hole. This was when he and his dad was saying he wanted to come here. The Liverpool fan posted the conversation on a Liverpool message board at the time. He used us to get a better deal for himself at Sunderland. For some people that is acceptable behaviour for others it isn't. For me it isn't acceptable. For once I agree with Mr Hat.
I care not about players who don't want to play for us. Many fans are playing the "bitter ex-girlfriend" role when it comes to FC. Football is a short career as it is, I'd sure as hell earn as much as I could throughout that time. I also think the non-celebration when scoring against a former club is ridiculous. Although saying that, I was livid when Leon Cort scored against us and decided to celebrate in front of us.
I was wondering when we might have another Campbell thread. it must be at least 3 months since the last one. I loved him in 2008. I also hated him in 2008 for stringing us along. I firmly believe in karma (or is it korma....I prefer king prawn or chicken) and Cardiff will go down and so will fraizer. We can then offer him a contract and take it back at the eleventh hour leaving him without a club.
Campbell was free to sign for anyone he wanted, it's his career, I don't blame him for anything he did there(other than his dad being a bit of a ****er), nor do I expect him to not celebrate goals. But if he scores his first goal against us and decides to runover to the City fans and jump up on a barrier giving it the big I am, then he deserves every bit of **** we throw his way now.
I agree 100%. I really don't know why people are annoyed at him for not signing. He did not string us along at all, it was the HDM just being wrong. Humberside stuck to the story all along that he wasn't interested in signing for us.
