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Originally posted by Memnoch:
So this is about Arsenal is it? I understand now! 
I agree with you by the way. Unfortunately Hollywood is in the business of creating fiction, despite claims about historical accuracy and all that bollocks.
I trust that Sol Campbell is settling in well, despite all the death threats etc?
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Sol Campbell is alive and well and is living in hiding. He has spent one million pounds for increased security in his house.
For anyone interested let me give you the background to this.
Two football clubs, both alike in dignity, in fair North London, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A star crossed footballer ........ err sorry I got a bit carried away there!
Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspurs (Spurs) are the two biggest football clubs in North London. Their stadiums are only a few miles apart. The two clubs are equally supported and the rivalry between them is very intense (going back 90 years) and there is a great deal of enmity between the clubs and their supporters. I have to work, drink and eat with Spurs fans - I even have to breathe the same air!
Luckily enough Arsenal are a much better team that Spurs so I have the upper hand when it comes to banter.
Sol Campbell was a Spurs player - their best player, the jewel in their crown. He had been at the club since he was a child, he ate, drank Spurs, he was their captain, their leader, their talisiman.
At the end of season 99/00 he had one year left on his contract. Manchester United offered Spurs £19 million but they turned it down. Once his contract expired he became a free agent and offers of £200,000 a week were received from european giants like Barcelona and Juventus.
Imagine how sick the Spurs fans were when Sol decided to cross over to the mighty Arsenal - imagine our joy,imagine the piss taking. Death threats were posted on internet boards and he was hung in effigy outside their stadium. They are absolutely fuming.
And the beautiful thing is we didn't have to pay them a penny. The newspapers called it the greatest betrayal since Judas Escariot.
England play Holland tonight in a friendly match and Sol would normally be playing - but the game is at Spurs' home ground so Sol has picked up a convenient injury that has ruled him out
Arsenal's nickname is 'The Gunners' and are repesented by a cannon. Spurs are (for some reason) represented by a chicken standing on a football. You can see this represented in my sig.
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