Since Sol Campbell made
the claim that he would have been England captain for 10 years had he been
white, ex-players, managers and FA executives have come out and respectfully
disagreed with Campbell and I would very much like to join them because his
comments were baffling and baseless.
Paul Ince rightly
pointed out nobody in recent times has come close to captaining England for 10
years, and the point Campbell makes that he wasn’t chosen because he was black
is equally stupid, as Ian Wright pointed out he had too quiet a personality to be captain he wasn’t vocal enough to be considered.
It’s pretty obvious the real reason for this announcement and as Campbell was a
high profile player he knew full well that making this claim would force the
press into reporting it, and thus it would publicise his soon to be released book.
In future if an ex-player of
Campbell’s stature makes a claim of a similar nature when there’s absolutely no
evidence to support it whatsoever I would hope the media frankly ignore it, because
in this case it’s all to try and sell a few books and that’s frankly quite sad.
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