Sol Campbell

I can understand them being miffed.
Its just the usual blinkered fan view though.
We spend all this free time talking and watching football because we love it, and we love the clubs we support.
To players, it's a job, it's how they feed their families and make their living.
They don't feel the same way as we do.
Take Harry Kane for instance, an Arsenal fan as a kid. If he was Hardcore Arsenal, he wouldn't have even entertained the idea of playing for Spurs.

But no, he is a footballer, Arsenal didn't want him any more, and Spurs did, and now Spurs have a great striker on their hands, who is no doubt getting paid a **** ton of cash, club allegiances go out the window when you see a contract worth £6m a year put in front of you.

 

Not at that time it wasn't.

Also, even now, how many captains go to a close rival? English even less.

It takes a special tosser like Sol to do that.

 

Sol Campbell is a ****, who the **** cares?

 

A lot of sense in there Bod

 

He went to Spurs though, not Pompey. Now Harry Redknapp got a bit of treatment from you guys for making that journey as I recall.

 

It's an interesting one ... Peter Shilton remains a Leicester City legend despite ending up at Forest and winning both the league and the European Cup with them ... obviously things were quite a lot easier back in those days and it's not really comparable to winning the EPL these days

 

It's "riposte," Afro Stan.

 

Redkrapp. Absolute ****ing ****bag of a man, but you almost have to admire the sheer bloody effrontery. Skates to Saints, then back again, calling pompey his "Spiritual home"!

 

Is that how you feel about Ashley Cole??

 

I wasn't going to bring it up! haha

 

I'm not saying that Saints fans have no right to be angry at Poch, but I do think there is a marked difference between the two cases.

Had Poch played for, and captained Saints, and had he been such a key player for them, and had he cost Saints £millions in lost revenue, and had to gone to Portsmouth, I might have some sympathy for your argument, Archie.

 

The only "marked difference" for any football fan is when it involves that fan's particulatr club ... let's be honest

 

Indeed.

If 'Arry wasn't such a loveable, barrow-boy-like rogue, no way would he get away with half his ****.

 

Wrong, Nigel. Again.

It matters most that Campbell went to Arsenal, having lied to Spurs and its fans. That is the point.

 

Pat Jennings is still a legend at Spurs I believe.

 

I get why Spurs fans would be annoyed. I suspect though that a large element of it is seeing how well he done at their rival and more evidence that they lived firmly in Arsenal's shadow during that period.

For Sol, career wise, the move was a no brainer. More money, more success, same location. Who wouldn't take that deal?

 

He is.

Jennings gave us the best years of his career, in my opinion.

He negotiated his way out of the club in a decent, and open manner.

Chalk and cheese, Archie.

 

Right Quentin, I'm afraid, m'duck ... from the ouside other fans might also deride the manner in which Campbell manipulated his move but the honours he went on to win with Arsenall more than justified joining them in wholly dispassionate footballing terms ...

 

Lying, cheating, narcissistic, money-grabbing scum-bags, who posses not an ounce of honour, integrity, or self-respect, and who would sell their grandmother for a new suit.

I trust that answers your question?