DESPITE playing for both Arsenal AND Tottenham, Sol Campbell has NEVER been to a North London derby since he last featured in one.
That makes it over 15 years since he was there on matchday but does not change his storied and controversial history.
He told SunSport, courtesy of Paddy Power: “I’ve not been to that fixture since my last derby game, when I played back there.
“Jermain Defoe told me when all my photos got taken down and things like that.
“When he came and joined me at Portsmouth [from Spurs], he said, ‘There’s a few pictures going back up with you in it’, in obscure areas of the club.”
Campbell went on to reveal that he also hasn’t visited the new Tottenham ground, the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, at all.
He added: “I’m not too sure about the new stadium as I haven’t been there. No music concerts. No. Nothing.”
Campbell played over 300 times for boyhood club Spurs before leaving to join their fierce rivals on a free transfer in 2001.
He played 14 times against Arsenal for Tottenham, winning just three, before making the switch.
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As a Gunner he would make eight NLD appearances, also coming out on top three times.
The last time he actually played at White Hart Lane – ignoring when he didn’t make the bench for Newcastle United in December 2010 – was for a 2-1 loss in April earlier that year when with Arsenal.
Campbell played the full match in what is remembered as the Danny Rose goal game but has avoided it ever since.
He was exposed to mass abuse from the stands in his first game back at White Hart Lane after leaving Spurs.
Fans held up ‘Judas’ signs and was ridiculed for the decision.
He said: “I think some people have got away and are kind of hiding.
“A lot of people, when they look back, they would probably say to themselves, ‘What was I doing back then? I can’t believe I was acting like that.’
“I get the fans were being whipped up.
“But it’s the people who had so much — the powerful people who did nothing and just allowed it to linger, allowed it to carry on.
“And now they don’t want to own up, don’t want to say sorry, don’t want to say that should not have happened.
“People on TV, politicians as well, putting their five pence worth in .
“Everybody got involved. Everybody was allowed to get away with it.
“No one wants to remember how they acted and how they treated me with disdain and the way they carried on — and there was no protection.
“People with power just turned their backs, just put their heads in the sand and thought it would just go away or just, you know , time will forget.
“And no one has apologised.
“It’s really sad because obviously my family got affected and things like that.”
