Classic Shot: 26-year-old agrees to join Arsenal from Tottenham
Welcome to this week’s installment of the Classic Shot.
Today’s classic image is of that day Sol Campbell was declared as an Arsenal player.
Almost exactly 12 years ago on July 3, 2001, Campbell joined the Gunners as a free-agent after refusing to renew his contract with Spurs. The move hammered a painful blow to Tottenham who had not only lost their skipper, but had strengthened their arch-rivals with £0 in profit made.
The image above was taken during the news conference which featured current boss Arsene Wenger and former vice-chairman David Dein.
Back then, a 26-year-old Sol said:
“Arsenal are a fantastic club. My decision was totally based on football. This is a great team, a great manager, great players. The set-up is geared to win.
“I want to be here. There were a number of clubs and a lot of factors I had to go through. That is why it has taken so long.
He added: “This was a big decision. I have spent a lot of years at Tottenham. While I was there I played my heart out, always played and trained to the best of my ability.
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He’ll always be a Judas for how he left Tottenham.
And that’s when we had……..David Dein!
Too right mate, if only he was still there, we’d have Fellaini and Higuain by now…
What a legend sol. Gooners
I love the smug look on David Dein’s face, I bet he enjoyed every minute of screwing the Totts over!!!
What a repulsive turd.
slaaaaaaaaags when you moved from woolwich and slaaaaaaags you have remained.
Why are Spud fans taking over here all of a sudden?
Perhaps they’re sick of the smell of old sweat and piss that occurs when too many Spuds congregate in an area?
There. I said what everyone was thinking.
Because it appears on Newsnow Tottenham News. If you buffoons wanna write about us then its gonna appear on newsnow. Fool!!!
They are too thick to understand that, most Arsenal fans cant even speak English. Pure utter filth, what a gormless chump Sol Campbell is.
Judas scum July 4, 2013 at 7:06 pm · ·
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They are too thick to understand that, most Arsenal fans cant even speak English. Pure utter filth, what a gormless chump Sol Campbell is.
can’t*
You’re welcome. What was that about speaking English? Toddle off back to your joke of a club now, fools.
Awww tinytoots still annoyed by arsenal moving from woolwich all i got i say is yids scum 2 years in a row u fucked a lead over us only to lose it last game of season. Minde the gap
Forever in the shadow ….
now now guys give them there due they do have reason to be bitter lol
Give them “their” due, you illiterate moron.
Disgraceful behavior by a liar and money grabbing arsenal.Could have, and should, have sold him to manure the year before for £15/20m offered but he went on about doing the right thing for Spurs…….utter tosser
Then its the boards fault. Dirty muggy yidds. Sol won more with us than ever did with.spurs lmfao
And Fabregas, Nasri, RVP, Clichy, etc. have won more since they left your rotten club then when they had to suffer the stench emanating from your corridors of filth!
win a title in your lifetime and get back to me you sad cunt gio!
Dirty scum gooner
That’s what made it even funnier HAHAHAHA
Wahh wahhh! Yes..YES let them tears fall. They taste so sweet.
HAHAHAHA
Woolwich killer look-like: As they fight us in our Gooners, We Fight back………….
You gooners can use it as a stick to beat us with, and we’d so the same, but anyone genuine gooner knows he’s a count for what he did even if they don’t admit it.
You love sol because he’s given you a great reason to wind us up spurs fans, but you don’t love him.
I loved nicky b for scoring a winner vs spurs. I loved sol even more for fucking yids over
Sit down you p………..
We won the league at shite heart lane
Traitor!!! and money chaser!!!
All u dirty cunts can suck my circumcised yid cock
Then stamp on their ugly immigrant heads.
What a great moment in history and the best decision Sol ever made. Don’t be bitter Spurs fans. It’s no surprise that a player of his caliber wanted to play for a big club.
We got Sol for free – spuds best player & captain….
Spuds spent £15m on David Bentley – Arsenal reject & we got a cut from the fee too! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sad sad sad little Tiny Totts!
Gooners have such short and hypocritical memories. We hated judas campbell because of the WAY he left us……lying about his intentions and screwing spurs out of a £10m fee in order to line his own pocket with a massive signing on fee. Scumbag. Yet when one of your many captains deserted you for having no ambition (henry, gallas, fabregas, rvp) you get all arsey with them even though they at least had the decency to ensure you werent robbed of the transferr fee. And they didnt lie about their plans either…..they were honest about wanting to go elsewhere in order to win things. Remember when you tried to win things? Its a long time since you stopped trying so maybe you dont. Judas could at least rightly claim that at the time he moved he was more likely to get medals (and money) at The Library or Effeminates. But any player you sign now is only after the money as they know that wenger is happy with 4th place and no more than that.
Did Gallas move to Tottenham to win things? That paid off….
We got paulinho u got gervinho haha
Tottenham celhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKpi-GzCYAAxLhT.png:large
You have bale…we win. He even admitted he doesnt know where his free kicks will end up. And I know he’ll never replicate that form again. And his celebration. No. Just NO. We’re getting Higuain, Capoue or Bender and more. Spurs are getting a villa in spain, either chuckle brother and an early wake up call early next season. AND our English contingent is the tiiiits.
Forget Spurs or Arsenal for a bit. Just consider being a human being a bit. If you like to be associated with a liar, and backstabber – then great – be happy about what Sol did. Just don’t moan when something similar happens in your personal life or with your club. Anyone with any morality should not tolerate the actions of Sol. If he had come out earlier, and indicated that he would be leaving on a free as he felt that Spurs were not progressing, that would have been fine. Spurs were in an absolute mess then, and most Spurs fans would have understood and appreciated his honesty. But he led everyone on (sorry lied). At least with van Persie or even Carrick, you got someone who was honest.
Just a quick point Myk. It is very rare for a 23 year old to not get better so your comment re Bale is stupid at best, however you can look into the future as you ‘know’ he’ll never replicate this form so I bow down to you. If a good percentage of his free kicks end in the net who cares if he doesn’t know where they are going. Finally his celebration is going to earn him millions and millions and millions and millions so unfortunately this is without question the funniest post I have ever seen. Let’s hope your primary school teacher doesn’t see it because you’ll be banned from play time for sure.
Welcome back mr campbell
Not really what it’s all about, is it.
Never mind Totts, Suppose you got your own back by poaching Adebayor and Bentley from us. Your sad little club and its supporters really are the gift that keeps on giving. It don’t matter how bad it gets it could be much worse cos we could have been you. lOl
COYG
Only sad thing here is that a ‘gooner’ calls themselves LUV THE SPURS. The obsession that Arsenal ‘fans’ have with Tottenham is mind boggling.
Wanker Goons, you are the best team in the world, you have the best players, the best manager, you will win everything, Fucking dickheads, you can stick that Judas up your arse//
its funny when spuds talk to arsenal about trophies hahaha ahh
Just a clown that ran off to join the circus !!!
Always worth joining the banter, the picture reminds Spurs fans (like me) of what a low life he really is and Arsenal fans of the last time they actually won anything! still just watching SS who confirm Paulinho is having a medical, as for Arsenal? and I quote “Good news and bad news, first the bad, Higuain has not arrived in UK as reported and remains in Madrid, the good news Arsenal are still very interested in him” well that’s good then you are still interested and he still isn’t 🙂 still stick with it there must be an entire bunch of unknown Frenchman out there available fro £5m!
yes, we will buy a Frenchman for 5 million and still be good enough to beat you in the league, I wonder why.
the truth is we’ve got everything you’ve been dreaming of, sol, new stadium, more trophies, more funs. by the way, when is your new stadium being built?
campbell knew back then it was the right move, why would he want to stay at a joke club who’s sole ambition back then was to finish above arsenal.
They have the same ambition now, to finish above us, spurs are a joke despearte for champions league so they can start building a new stadium.
we built a new stadium and stayed in the top four, lost many key players , criticised by the media but with the stadium paid off nearly and lucrative sponsorship deals it looks as if we did the right thing all this through a recession also.
Spurs think just by getting to the champions league it will help them, no it wont its called being in there year in year out to get the respect and the good deals.
weve had one manager to do that, how many have you had? your whole clubs ambition to finish above us every season shows how pathetic you are.
Sol became a legend at our club being aprt of a team which played the best football at that time.
can’t any fucker rite proper english
Arsena need cambel and other defenciv wall like felani.
Shut up what the fuck do you know you stupid cunt.
The day ar-Sol came out
@plive the only reason u’ve finished above us the last few seasons is down to having that bit of lady luck just at the right time like playing a bitter ex yid scoring a hatrick for you on the last day of season lol and last season the only reason you finished above us is by playing a Newcastle team that didn’t care about the result after getting safe the game before put it this way if u played sunderland that day like we did we’d be the one’s in champs league your luck wont last forever!! And I find it funny u saying we only strive to finish above u hahaha think it’s the other way round!! That’s all u gooners have been saying the last few seasons !!! I don’t care where we come as long as we go ish above the spuds hahaha and all u goons calling rvp a Judas Hashanah hope u all enjoyed giving rvp his guard of honour!!! Lol
yeah – it was luck. sure. keep believing. maybe one day you’ll be a top club! Yeah the mighty sunderland at home was so much more difficult than full internationals Newcastle away. You are so smart, you are amazing.
now put on your XXXXL Bale shirt for one more season, jog on and get a brain cell, you sad little zero.
Enjoy the Europa – the cup of small teams!
Another ‘gooner’ obsessed by Tottenham with his sad name. What a twat
Yeah, watching RVP receive his guard of honour hurt almost as much as when I saw spurs win the league….Wait, the last time spurs won the league was 30 years before i was even fucking born!
And another. Even bigger twat
@spud wanker Yh Newcastle are a much better team than sunderland but let’s face it Newcastle didn’t give a shit about winning that day they were safe put it this way if they were still fighting to stay lin the league that day u wouldn’t be in champs league!!! The way u played that day and still won Says it all!!! And we will enjoy see u in the knockout stages haha And remember=(We got paulinho u got gervinho) haha
@yid******* ,It hurt then lol
Scum fans living in the past again, it was wasn’t long after that you won your last trophy, other than the emirates cup. Enjoy your last season in the champions league
welcome to the emirates
well were did his great form go when he joined he looked like a bag of peadofile scared shitty dripping scummy bag when he played for the arseholws!!
The truth is your cabinet is dusty and you play shit you wanna sack your best manager u had in decades your stadium is a 3rd world emirated african middle eastern shithole. at least the mighty Spurs is the only team with Manure to win a trophy in every decade! Your supporters are shit and you know it now fcuk off back down the river side you sad lil cunts!
Campbell was a football mercenary. He stood out in a poor Tottenham team for 5 seasons. The Spurs fans he hurt played a part in him becoming the player he was. The fans loved Campbell but if you recall some of his defensive partners at Tottenham; the likes of Calderwood, Vega, Nethercott, Scott, etc, a large traffic cone would have looked quite useful.
Campbell saw an opportunity to make a few quid and took it. His first game back at the Lane in a goon shirt was one of the most disgusting occasions I have ever witnessed. Pure hatred.
Silver lining for Spurs; LEDLEY KING came through because Campbell took the money.
Thiery Henry said Ledley was the best. That is good enough for me.
Ledley King, T.H.F.C legend through and through.
Sol Campbell; remembered mostly for scoring a goal that wasn’t against Argentina and cheating the Spurs fans who loved him.
Nuff sed
can`t speak in English? Well yeah coz we`re universal while you`re just n. London-sal gimmicks. Watch this gap (language, class, cabinet, universatility, and SOL)
you`ve got paulinho we`ve got Gervinho? We`ve got Szczesny and you`ve got his dad ha! Tell you what we`ve got that one sick point and yeah ducks we still got 5 for you at the emirates.
are you a really stupid drunk or a really dumb 9 year old?
Boy you are seriously thick
Looking forward to seeing Arsenal drop out of the top 5 next season, they are the most boring team i have watched since that other boring arsenal under george graham. wenger and the arsenal ans are totally deluded, Tottenham are much better than arse these days, unlucky last year
sooo boring and still better than you, that says a lot about spuds. you can buy the Brazilian squad and still wont be better than the arsenal fact. Reason? you have no balls, fact,
Does anyone remember when Arsenal were moderately good that they didn’t need to post such an article to remind others they exist. 🙂
Arsenal always have to judge themselves against Tottenham because Tottenham are the established club.
Every neutral fan I know hates Arsenal but they all have a soft spot for Tottenham. Why? Because they say Tottenham are a true footballing club.
That says everything you ever need to know and the odd desperate post about something that happened over 10 years ago pretty much sums up how poor Arsenal are now 🙂
Only a piece of shit would act in the way Campbell did….which is why he went to Arsenal, so he could feel right at home with the other pieces of shit.
Josh what the fuck are u chatting? Lol your trying to boast u have that donkey faced cock in goal haha when we have Loris Hashanah we got paulinho u got gervinho we got BALE u got arteta loool COYS!!!
71 2004 red army. The dirty yids will never finish above us