Talk:Sol Campbell

Personal Life
he is engaged to be married! he is getting married in corbridge sometime in july x —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hannahr786 (talk • contribs) 13:01, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Grammar
There has been a multitude of grammatical error. And 16,000,000 offered by West Ham to buy him from Spurs during his loan term? That amount sounds too incredible to me! Consider revising, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.7.179 (talk) 17:22, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

The irony is your grammar is terrible too. And don't start a sentence with and.


 * It's perfectly good English to start a sentence with 'and'.


 * "And" is a "Coordinating conjunctions" according to wikipedia, requiring text before and after to be valid English. What you COULD have got away with whining at the (unsigned) guy who said not to start with "and" is that in requesting he himself did so, although I believe it was the irony he spoke of. 86.8.28.133 (talk) 21:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

personally i agree you cant start a sentence with and but since when is wikipedia a reliable source?

Actually 'AND' can be used to begin a sentence where it is used to introduce that sentence - the first sentence of the song 'Jerusalem' And did those feet in ancient time refers. 78.150.5.128 (talk) 18:59, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Birthplace
Until some one can work his birth place in to the main article cleanly (as required by the style manual), I'm removing his birth place. He was born in Newham, London. Putting his birth place in Early career does not seem clean to me at all. Trevor1 04:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Every other living person's biography I've seen on this site includes the birthplace in the first sentence. The Manual of Style only mentions dead people.  I would have left it alone, Trevor.  If I had broken it, I would have also fixed it. Slumgum | yap | stalk | 19:47, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Arsenal record
From Arsenal web site

Arsenal Statistics:                  Apps               Goals League                               133                84 F.A. Cup                             19                    2 Champions League                     39                    1 League Cup                           2 Community Shield                     2 TOTAL                                195+2                 11

Is policy only to state League games if so that should be stated. --Vivbaker 20:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Opps so it does --Vivbaker 20:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Pompey
Rumor has it he's going to Portsmouth, taking his medical recently as well. Don't change anything until it has been confirmed by Pompey or Arsenal. Squadoosh 21:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Who on earth wrote this bit in the Return to Arsenal section: "He also gave away a stupid freekick by back passing the ball to Fabianski, then he stood in shame, and didn't sprint back to defend the goal. Poto took it quickly and scored, bad play by sol there." Editorialising and dreadful English! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.218.77 (talk) 21:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

First England goal
It says that sol has scored 1 goal for england. What goal was that? I know of two goals that were wrongfully disallowed, but what is the goal which was allowed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard LVP Real (talk • contribs) 18:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * He scored against Sweden in one of the group games in the 2002 World Cup, just checked and it is in the article ... :) Neil   ム  18:06, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I've put the information about the goal into a table. I know its only one goal, but hey, it looks nice. User:Oliwestham (Talk!) 16:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Height
I'm no expert, but it seems to me that his height isn't reported correctly in the article! 86.17.244.224 (talk) 20:24, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, every bio I have ever seen lists his height at 1.89m (6'2 1/2"). I know it's just one cm, but that is the most common listing of his height.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.4.25 (talk) 21:36, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Chanting
Early this month, the British media widely reported that, at a football match Sol Campbell was playing in, many fans subjected him to 'vicious homophobic chanting'. Information about it was added by one user to this article (but badly, and without a ref), then later removed by another user. Was the info removed simply because it was unsourced, or is it not considered important enough to be in the article? In any case, prior to the media reporting this, I had never heard any suggestion of Campbell being anything other than straight; does anyone know why a group of people would claim he is homosexual? F W Nietzsche (talk) 22:01, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * They are NOT claiming aything. Just morons shouting things at footballers in the hope it will upset them - and the gay thing always seems to be close at hand for them.86.133.162.215 (talk) 16:31, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The accusations for the chanting being racist are not true - the reference to 'hanging from a tree' refers to the fate of Judas and nothing at all to do with lynching. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Muzikizum (talk • contribs) 13:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * In your interpretation. Whilst I agree there is substantially more evidence/logic behind it being a reference to Judas, given the nature of his departure from Tottenham, surely the racial connotations are quite bleedingly obvious too? As Wikipedia is a factual based site, I don't see how you can argue that you KNOW - and not just believe - that it was a Judas reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.253.48.109 (talk • contribs) 09:21, 14 July 2009

That's so funny! How can you possibly say that due to the nature of his departure from Spurs, the racial connotations are obvious? There's no evidence for this, in fact it's absurd!! 78.150.5.128 (talk) 19:01, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely absurd. No racial connotations whatsoever. All Judas based. Long live the King. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.135 (talk) 12:42, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Brother
Wasn't his brother chucked out of University or something after punching some guy who called Sol gay?--EchetusXe 14:31, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * See http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jun/04/gayrights.football. William Avery (talk) 16:24, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well what happened to his brother has nothing to do with Sol. As it's not Sol's personal life, it should be removed. MarshallMolasses (talk) 13:53, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Signing for Newcastle
It has been reported in the journal that he is signing for newcastle united this week, and he was also seen at the Newcsatle Vs Reading game on the 15 august 2009, with the home fans. During Signing autographs he said that he expected to sign in the next few days.

Quote from Journal "There will also be extensive player recruitment, although United are on the verge of completing the signing of free agent Sol Campbell this week even if Shearer is not in charge."

Quote from unoffical NUFC site "Watching Newcastle's home victory on Saturday evening from the Milburn stand was defender Sol Campbell.

The 34 year-old free agent signed autographs and admitted that a deal for him at SJP was likely this week.

Campbell has been spotted in the region recently with fiancée Fiona Barrett - who is from Newcastle."

Links http://nufc.com/ http://www.journallive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/08/17/barry-moat-banking-on-barclays-approval-61634-24457916/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.68.156 (talk) 10:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * and IF he signs, THEN add it. Until such time, it is just non-notable rumour, speculation and crystal ball gazing.-- Club Oranje T 11:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

People really need to stop jumping the gun, as of 12:00 on the 27th July he has not joined Newcastle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Howtobedead9 (talk • contribs) 11:13, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

this
is a prime example of an article about a footballer. good job. Kiagla (talk) 16:55, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Current work status
So over the last while we've had three different forms for his current work status:


 * "is a former footballer"
 * "is a currently unattached footballer"
 * "is a footballer without a club"

The problem with the first one should be obvious. The problem with the third is that is lacks the context to explain the profession: one can be a pilot without having to be in the sky right that minute, but a footballer without a club?

There is a fourth possible wording:


 * "is a footballer last attached to Notts County"

How does that sound?

Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 15:27, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The last one does seem more fitting. --Jimbo[online] 20:02, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Integrated. I think this is a pretty elegant solution for released players who haven't announced retirement; let's see if we can use it more in the future. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 22:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

The last I heard was that he is still attatched to Notts County, and they would not release his player registration until he publicly clarified his reasons for leaving. MickMacNee (talk) 18:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC)


 * If that can be reliably sourced then we can update the article accordingly. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 11:54, 10 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I of course meant as reported in sources. MickMacNee (talk) 15:53, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

loads missing from this article
We're supposed to include stuff that meets WP:NOTE such as his depression, Arsenal etc haven't skirted around the subject. Sticky Parkin 02:06, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Picture?
Any better ones available? Maybe one that shows his eyes? The one that is used (2010-01-24) does no justice to the subject, or the fact that he is a footballer.

It looks like he is in a mood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.16.59 (talk) 13:51, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 60.50.255.104, 18 August 2010
COuld someone please change total goals in 03-04 season to 1 goal as it states in that row that he scored 1 league goal that season thanks

60.50.255.104 (talk) 05:42, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ - Well spotted, the total goals now add up correctly thanks. BritishWatcher (talk) 13:52, 18 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Stadiums of hate::

Perhaps it is worth including campbell's comments in the documentary "stadiums of hate" about "coming home in a coffin" and the subsequent response of English fans. (83.16.188.58 (talk) 12:04, 25 June 2012 (UTC))

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 July 2021
Sol scored 1 goal for arsenal in the 2010 period against FC Porto, champions league 2A00:23C5:DF91:CA01:83D:F2AD:4406:7A69 (talk) 09:43, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
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