Runaway Sol (Again)

So Sol Campbell has buggered off from Notts County after just 1 match, so why are people surprised? This is the man that was so ‘depressed’ and ‘under pressure’ that he walked out at half time during a match, whilst playing for Arsenal. Now he might well have felt those things but you lose all sympathy when the man is paid £80,000 a week to play football. God knows how he’ll get on working a proper job, with debts to pay, like so many of his fans do.

I used to like Sol. I remember him playing so well in an England shirt, particularly his joyous reaction when he scored against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup, only for his goal to be disallowed. He was the rock at the back every team should have and he was good at it.

Notts County have recently been taken over by an ambitious Arab who wants to get them into the Premier League within five years. They’ve spent quite a bit of money on players, upgrading the training ground and employing former England manager, Sven Goran-Eriksson as director of football. Campbell was brought to the club not long after and signed a FIVE YEAR CONTACT.

Campbell has sighted the fact that the reason he left was that the club ‘didn’t fit in with his plans’, despite giving interviews on how he was really happy with the set up and that ‘he was in it for the long run’, just weeks earlier.

Now, either something dodgy is going on or Campbell is an unprofessional prima-donna, who just didn't fancy turning out in League 2 in front of 3,000 people. I’m going for the latter. The man is 35 now and still believes he can play for England. He’s turned his back on a lucrative contract that could have seen him playing in the Premiership at an age where most players have long since retired.

Furthermore, he can’t play for a club until January now, so maybe he should have stuck it out until then? A few months without training could catch up with him and at his age, I’d be surprised if the ‘top club’ he craves will come in for him.

Well done Sol, you’ve shown that footballers are as stupid as they look.