Sticking Sol Campbell on his arse is a dream most Tottenham gamers of a sure technology would have had, so truthful play to Bobby Zamora, who achieved the feat in 2006.
Granted, Zamora spent about as a lot time at Spurs as Campbell spent as a critical London mayoral candidate, and he was taking part in for West Ham on the time. But the actual fact stays: he floored the person referred to as Judas within the white half of north London earlier than whipping the ball into the highest nook of the Highbury internet. It was the stuff of fantasy.
Speaking on the Under The Cosh Podcast final month, Zamora stated his mates thought he was a “dead man walking” as a result of he’d informed Campbell to “f*** off” moments after the aim, which was West Ham’s second in a 3-2 win on their final ever journey to Highbury.
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“I managed to stick Sol Campbell on his a**e,” the ex-England striker recalled. “I know a lot of my pals thought I was a dead man walking, the West Ham boys. Before the game, the lads were like, ‘F*** me, Sol’s going to smash you to pieces. He’s going to kick you up in the air’. I was like, cheers boys.
“As it occurs, I managed to stay him on the ground, take a contact and whip it into the highest nook. So my celebration was, ‘F*** off, Sol’ … however I used to be simply saying it for the boys.”
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Fortunately for Zamora, he prevented a possible post-match dust-up with Campbell because the defender bizarrely went AWOL mid-match after struggling one thing of an existential disaster. Campbell was at fault for each Zamora’s aim and Nigel Reo-Coker’s opener, and requested he be substituted at half-time.
He then left the stadium and disappeared for just a few days, fleeing to Brussels for a cooling off interval because the membership scrambled to come up with him. Campbell ultimately returned to motion two months later, however stop the Gunners on the finish of the season.
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For these out of the loop, Campbell is public enemy No. 1 in Tottenham after leaving the membership on a Bosman to affix arch-rivals Arsenal in 2001, after having promised followers he would keep on nationwide TV. Zamora, in the meantime, joined Tottenham from Brighton in 2003, however left for West Ham a 12 months later having struggled for first staff soccer.