Sol Campbell

rainman · Post by **rainman** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:01 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 676360.stm

A bit out of character. Hope he get's himself together soon, he could play a big part for England at Germany 2006.

phily bon bon · Post by **phily bon bon** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:44 am

rainman wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 676360.stm

A bit out of character. Hope he get's himself together soon, he could play a big part for England at Germany 2006.

tRUE HE WAS FANTASTIC at the previous euro championship so its good to see plenty of options in the defending department as I feel that defending and the lack of quailty replacment for robinson in goal could cost us in germany.

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:48 am

It's all going to "COME OUT" very soon about Sol Campbell if you know what I mean

Riviera · Post by **Riviera** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:52 am

Gaz wrote:It's all going to "COME OUT" very soon about Sol Campbell if you know what I mean

another justin fashanu

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:53 am

Riviera wrote:
Gaz wrote:It's all going to "COME OUT" very soon about Sol Campbell if you know what I mean

another justin fashanu

There were many rumours about him while he was at Spurs, looks like it's got to him now though. Wonder who his boyfriend is?

Riviera · Post by **Riviera** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:57 am

Gaz wrote:
Riviera wrote:
Gaz wrote:It's all going to "COME OUT" very soon about Sol Campbell if you know what I mean

another justin fashanu
There were many rumours about him while he was at Spurs, looks like it's got to him now though. Wonder who his boyfriend is?

well i did hear the reason BB wasnt posting so much was because he was putting together a closet he could come out of

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:59 am

Riviera wrote:
Gaz wrote:
Riviera wrote:
another justin fashanu
There were many rumours about him while he was at Spurs, looks like it's got to him now though. Wonder who his boyfriend is?
well i did hear the reason BB wasnt posting so much was because he was putting together a closet he could come out of

PMSL

toby · Post by **toby** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:55 am

Gaz wrote:
Riviera wrote:
Gaz wrote:It's all going to "COME OUT" very soon about Sol Campbell if you know what I mean

another justin fashanu
There were many rumours about him while he was at Spurs, looks like it's got to him now though. Wonder who his boyfriend is?

Freddie Ljunberg if rumours are to be believed.

At least now we know why Sol was desperate to go to the Arse...

Still he's a good player to have filling in the hole at the back...

Ojc · Post by **Ojc** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:13 am

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:47 am

Ojc wrote:

LMFAO that is class

monstermunch · Post by **monstermunch** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:49 am

It's supposed to be with Jermaine Jenas

And the tabs are outing a "rugby star" over the weekend aswell. Value for money...

Oh and Pobert Pires told a French radio station:

"He certainly has a big worry on the private side and that is what is upsetting him."
"We want to tell him and make him understand that we are behind him whatever happens. We all have difficult times in our careers.

"It is hard for him to face up to the situation, but he is not alone. He knows that and we have told him so this morning."

This "big problem" would explain his poor performances, I suppose. It's been rumbling for years though. Remember when his brother went to jail for beating someone up who suggested he could be on the other side?

monstermunch · Post by **monstermunch** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:59 am

Oh, and Arsenal's 606 boards are CARNAGE at the moment. Threads appearing and disappering at random. Brilliance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb606/F2241560

But seriously, I wish the guy luck if it is true. Football needs someone to "come out".

Post by **Dazza** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:50 pm

monstermunch wrote:Oh, and Arsenal's 606 boards are CARNAGE at the moment. Threads appearing and disappering at random. Brilliance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb606/F2241560

But seriously, I wish the guy luck if it is true. Football needs someone to "come out".

Just saw this on there:

Whats the difference between sol campbell and a microwave?

a microwave dont brown ya meat

monstermunch · Post by **monstermunch** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:17 pm

My point exactly, Dazza. Sadly some people don't seem to have grown up

Hearts_Ipswich · Post by **Hearts_Ipswich** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:43 pm

If anyone watched dream team last year then is it just me or does Sol Campbell remind you of Frank Stone??

wicked blue · Post by **wicked blue** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:23 pm

A different perspective:

The skilful footballer who suffers in silence
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 04/02/2006)

In the clamour and glamour of professional football, rumour tends to fill the vacuum left by thoughtfulness.

That has proved to be the case for Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell, better known as Sol, youngest of 12 children of a working-class family from Stratford, east London.

Because he tends not to give celebrity interviews or discuss his relationships on the sofas of chat-show television, Campbell becomes a target of speculation about his private life.

Because he reads books without pictures in and has talked about becoming an actor when he hangs up his very large boots, Campbell has been the victim of innuendo about his sexuality.

It has happened to other footballers, too. The more intense and considered, the harder they are to pigeonhole, the more likely they are to be marked as odd, eccentric, difficult.

Words such as "troubled" become associated with them if they don't wear idiot grins and get drunk on expensive Champagne. Campbell, 31, has the track record of a proven and top-class footballer, but has still suffered for his talents.

He has 66 international caps and, at the last two World Cups, was picked in the "team of the tournament" selected by Fifa, the sport's governing body. He was the only England player to be so honoured. But he is a very quiet man. His graven features and apparent unwillingness to expose his feelings led one journalist to describe him as being "as inscrutable as an Easter Island megalith".

But the centre-back, once first choice at the heart of England's defence, rejects the idea that he is aloof. He said: "They think, 'Oh, he's a quiet little boy'. You don't get to be where you are by being a quiet little boy."

Campbell is regarded as intelligent and self-sufficient. He is the only major player to have negotiated his own "Bosman" contract when his 10-year attachment to Tottenham Hotspur expired in 2001. But therein lies the key to his troubles.

When he left Spurs, Campbell did the one thing that the fans could never forgive him for: he joined Arsenal. Few rivalries in British football are as visceral as the one between the two north London clubs.

It seems likely that rumours about his private life, in short that he was homosexual, began on the internet chat rooms of Tottenham fans.

But for a man supposedly gay, he has had an awful lot of girlfriends. A two-minute search in an archive of gossip columns since 2001 produces no fewer than seven women's names romantically linked to Campbell, including the singer Dido and the Swiss tennis player Martina Hingis.

Most recently he has had a relationship with Kelly Hoppen, a well-known interior designer, though they have now split up. This romance also broke the footballer's mould, for Miss Hoppen is 14 years older than Campbell.

"People have these perceptions of you and they're based on portrayals written by guys who've never had five minutes with you," he said. "Why get worked up about it? There's a huge difference between the real me and the stereotyped footballer."

Whatever he is and wherever he might be, Sulzeer Campbell is not your average footballer

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bfenton@telegraph.co.uk

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