S0l Campbe11 is missing

So she's beard?

"Ah 'av' told 'eeem eeet iz noh problem beeein' ah 'omosezual, but eeee weeeeel not lizzen."

seems like a good guy, a total hero for england in the past too, hope he is alright.

I hopes he's OK. This is all a bit too Footballers Wives.

"Missing" = He won't speak to tabloid fuckwads btw. Several of his team mates have already said they've spoke to him on the phone this week. He isn't "missing".

Gary Linekar did on MOTD.

Dido's gay too.

i never wished him hurt but he made his own bed.

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/470/sol2fa.jpg

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2006051368,00.jpg

the situation wasn't simply a matter of switching clubs. campbell cynically ran his contract down, repeatedly promising he will sign a new one, which he had no intention of doing. he lied to the fans and the club who supported him and helped him become the player he was. by kidding everyone along and leaving on a free transfer sol lined his and his agent's own pockets with the potential transfer fees tottenham deserved. its not even about the money; it was his lies and dishonesty.

incidently, many of his problems stem from this betrayal, all these rumours included.

many of his problems stem from this betrayal

i dont care about sol. lets think about peven everett today, instead

God you're a cynical, miserable, bitter bastard. Firstly and primarily, this has absolutely nothing to do with how Sol left Spurs or the very fact that he did. This isn't even about him as a footballer but as a human being. Even if this story has absolutely no substance to it, I'd still rather be on record as having wished him the best - whatever happens, if he quits England, Arsenal football, whatever - than having said "fuck you, you left Spurs, deal with it".

Secondly Sol Campbell left Spurs what 4/5 years ago? He swapped a second rate club who were, at that time, doing fuck all and going nowhere and which had won sod all, for one with promise and potential who then proceded to go 49 league games unbeaten, win several FA Cups and have a few decent stabs in Europe. He had fulfilled his contract, unlike numerous players we could mention who have failed to do so, and stuck it out far longer than he needed to. The fact that he earned a few quid out of it doesn't make him a traitor and certainly doesn't mean he deserves all this shit.

Have a heart you cunt.

on the spurs thing; final time i'll mention this but, to clarify, what sol did wrong was not that he left spurs, not that he made money, but that he repeatedly lied to people that supported him in order to satisy his own greed. while this is a key feature of a capitalist society that doesn't stop it being an utter shit state of affairs. football, as entertainment, as escape, should strive higher than that.

also, i think it disquieting that people here, you included nickeleven, suggest his temporary hiatus from public life may result in campbell 'doing a fashanu'. this is a base, exploitative fantasy of events.

It was also revealed that Campbell, 31, was tormented by a failed relationship with an 18-year-old Essex girl at the time he vanished.

The England defender became besotted with the teenager after meeting her in a nightclub three months ago. But she has repeatedly turned down his advances.

Campbell - who is said to be "prone to depression" - was already tortured over his on-off relationship with designer Kelly Hoppen, 46.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16665248&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=lost-sol--name_page.html

It seems that no-one really knows anything about what's going on but look upon him as a human being who's going through some tough times rather than simply a footballer. Who are you helping by saying, indeed on an internet message board, that he's getting what he deserves/reaping what he's sown?

really my key point is that sol doesn't need any sentimental whimsy of being 'wished the best' and exaltations that he's a 'good guy' from the incumbents of an internet message board.

As a human being, I hate seeing people suffering. Therefore I hope Sol Campbell is OK. Depression is a fucker to deal with at the best of times, and having the NotW and their ilk, not to mention a bunch of disgruntled Spurs fans still living in 2001, can't be making it any easier for him. I doubt he's ever going to read this, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about it.

That is all.

Well I for one hope he *does* turn up to present the revival of Gladiators :)

Look, if he is seriously depressed or, God forbid, terminally ill, then people have a right to be concerned. I refuse to believe that his employers and colleagues aren't showing more concern and support than they are telling the papers though.

Fuck, I said "DNFTT" and I'm doing it myself. Gah.

Fuck you you fucking useless cunt.

Sol is a national treasure and a hero. He has been solid as a goddamn wall at Euro championships and World Cups, and who can forget the passion he had against Argentina in 98, nearly single handedly beating them, and that header!

I'm not a spurs fan, nor arsenal, but i've enjoyed watching him play for many years and I would be sad not to see him run out again. I'm wishing him the best, and saying he is a good guy, because of the footballing joy he has given to the nation.

Go back to your pot noodle, wank + match of the day you loser.

the unidentified music poof is no other than the poofy will young

I like how he spotted it on a gay website, according to the Guardian version of the story. Presumably because somebody told him it was on there, because he couldn't have just been looking at it what with him not being gay and it being a gay website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7151584.stm

Just half-heard this on the radio and assumed he meant racist abuse, but apparently not, the big jesse.

Banning chants about bags of sweets and cheesey smiles = terrorists have won

Who can be arsed to chant at Sol Campbell in 2007?

is football the only sport with this problem on this scale?

I believe Rugby Union fans shout "bad show".

Evil Communists receive similar abuse in pro-wrestling

Also Chris Benoit

I bet if somebody moved from Wigan to St Helens in RL he'd get an earful of pie.

i think Sol is right but the players need to behave better in the first place. Ashley Cole was terrible on Sunday.

"I am an international player who has given his whole career to club and country."

er...how can any footballer not give their career to club (and/or country)? Is there a freelance approach I am not aware of? You know Liverpool for one match, Hamilton Academicals for the next two matches and Dagenham the week after?

And there was I thinking Sol just went to the highest bidder each time, rather than sticking loyally to the club that made him an international in the first place.

there needs to be more chants of "BORRRRRRRRINGGG" and "YOU CAN'T FOOTBALL" during crap matches.

"HOLY SHIT, HOLY SHIT" when someone gets in a tasty tackle.

Do you think at any point before he said this he thought "hang on I am going to sound like a total wanker and get zinged by fans for the rest of the season"?

and blueski OTM. football players get away with rape and we can't even call them gay?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news2.shtml
ashleycole.ytmnd.com

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:56 PM

That NOTW link now goes to "TWINS ASK SANTA TO BRING MADDIE BACK"

Oh for happier days when we just speculated about footballing pooves and our children were safe.

And Peter Shilton nobbing somebody's wife.

Sol Campbell has probably never done a real days work in his life, he gets paid more in one week than most of us can ever hope to earn in a lifetime.

This guy's on less than £1,500 a year?

I hope Maddie's parents continue to keep us informed on everything the kids they haven't offed say.

MADDIE TWINS: "SOL IS A BIG WOOFTER"

Gareth I think one of them is a well-liked popstar known for his tweed blazer/designer jeans combo.
-- suzy (suzy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 17:13 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Suzy bang on the money with her knowledge of what goes on in showbiz yet again.

When I read the "TWINS" headline I assumed it was going to be Samanda Big Bruv.

ha, me too.

You know Liverpool for one match, Hamilton Academicals for the next two matches and Dagenham the week after?

:)

that strike through on the S doesnt really show does it.

I would definitely watch a show where Sam and Amanda were amateur sleuths who tracked down kids who had been accidentally killed by their feckless parents kidnapped by crack rings of international kiddy-fiddlers.

YEAH WE SAW A MEXICAN GUY LOOKING SUSPICIOUS JUST BEFORE THEY DISAPPEARED

"Liverpool for one match, Hamilton Academical for the next two matches" is kind of the Neuname mode of support, no?

maybe missing "two weeks complaining about refereeing decision" as step three

O shi that's a zing right there, son.

LOL :-)

xpost

It's all love

Step 4 would be getting butthurt over Kerrang?

5 will be an angry text to ferg

HUHT

"Butthurt Over Kerrang" should be a HMHB song

Who will do a song about The Guardian?

"People I Don't Know Are Trying to Kill Me"

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5441/lastscancv8.jpg

Is that from the man utd party?

looks more like Chelsea's

nah, definitely man city

that's the name of the nightclub