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28 Mar 15
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A few weeks back, the sports minister, Helen Grant, arranged a summit at Whitehall to discuss why there are so few black managers and coaches in the game. Senior figures from the Football Association were there, along with the Premier League, the Professional Footballers’ Association and the Football League. There were guests from Kick It Out and Show Racism the Red Card and Sol Campbell also received an invitation, as an ex-England player who is frustrated, understandably, by the lack of opportunities.
What Campbell does not appear to realise, perhaps, is that the best way to get a point across is without ego or too much self-esteem.
On this occasion he wanted the FA’s technical director, Dan Ashworth, to explain why Gary Neville had been fast-tracked through the system to become one of Roy Hodgson’s assistants with the England team. Ashworth started talking about the favourable impression Neville had made on Hodgson and the players and was running through the processes that were involved when Campbell put out his hand to interrupt him. This is when things started to get a little strange.
“But I am Sol Campbell.”
As you might imagine, that isn’t a particularly easy sentence to come back from. Ashworth did his best to continue because, well, what else could he do? But it is fair to say the entire room had been engulfed in awkwardness and when Ashworth stopped talking there was another tumbleweed moment. Campbell, hand out, ended the conversation in the same way he had started it.
“But I am Sol Campbell.”
(from the blog: www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/mar/28/duncan-edwards-original-boy-wonder-greatest)
What Campbell does not appear to realise, perhaps, is that the best way to get a point across is without ego or too much self-esteem.
On this occasion he wanted the FA’s technical director, Dan Ashworth, to explain why Gary Neville had been fast-tracked through the system to become one of Roy Hodgson’s assistants with the England team. Ashworth started talking about the favourable impression Neville had made on Hodgson and the players and was running through the processes that were involved when Campbell put out his hand to interrupt him. This is when things started to get a little strange.
“But I am Sol Campbell.”
As you might imagine, that isn’t a particularly easy sentence to come back from. Ashworth did his best to continue because, well, what else could he do? But it is fair to say the entire room had been engulfed in awkwardness and when Ashworth stopped talking there was another tumbleweed moment. Campbell, hand out, ended the conversation in the same way he had started it.
“But I am Sol Campbell.”
(from the blog: www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/mar/28/duncan-edwards-original-boy-wonder-greatest)
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I cannot find out anywhere whether he passed his uefa coaching course ?
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England captain material a la Guardian
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I'm not Sol Campbell but we went to the same school.
I'm not a football manager either. |
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Sol doesn't like the idea of a mansion tax.
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Sol was a fine player but that doesn't automatically translate.
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so good he scored a bullet header o.g. against the argies at france 98 and in 2006-7 threw a tantrum, subbing himself against west ham for gifting them two goals and then went awol
top, top player |
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he never scored an og v Arg in the 2-2
Batistuta scored a pen and then Zanetti i think from a slick free kick Sol scored a disallowed header at the other end |
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So he - for that is he, the one known as SOL CAMPBELL - is basically an individual version of what Rangers are as a team ; that has pretty such been their attitude for decades ; "We are the people."
Feckin' deluded... |
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he,s thinking of standing as an mp,horrible coont of a man deluded soul who thinks he,s loved by the public
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Grasping ego-maniac who'd sell his own balls if the price was right
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Maybe they should have done a spoof on Spartacus and all said 'No I am Sol Campbell'.
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makes you wonder why this money mad luvie married into a multi millionaire family,
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Perhaps he would have made more impact if he'd said 'je suis Sol Campbell'
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Ahhh Sol Campbell
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he's now in a poster campaign, where he's "whiting up" -
 . http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/12890922.Black_British_stars_appear_with_white_faces_in_new_voting_campaign/ |
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I am Sol Campbell
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No, I'm Spartacus.
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please put this up on football David - for the poor souls too timid to visit more than one forum. You will give much pleasure by so doing. Marvelllous stuff. What an utter cretin he must be.
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Former England footballer Sol Campbell has confirmed his intention to become the next Mayor of London.
The ex-Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur defender said he could "bring something new to the table" as the Conservative nomination. "But I look at people who have been in politics for five, 10, 15 years, and muck up, you see them muck up and think, 'You guys are supposed to be pro!' "People [who] have gone to Oxbridge, had thousands spent on their education, and I mean they are royally mucking up," he said. Asked whether he could count on the votes of Spurs fans still bitter over his 2001 move to north London rivals Arsenal, Campbell said: "If we keep thinking about football, we're not going to do anything. "We are dealing with people's lives here. I want to change London for everybody." |
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Hey Sol cambpbell,
Judas, I wanna know, Why your such a **** |
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I want to change London for everybody.
He's going to stand for UKIP? |