Chapter 175: Interlude

The north stand of the Emirates Stadium resounded with the singing of Portsmouth fans, and if the home fans could still suppress them during the game, a large number of Gunners fans left the stadium as soon as the game was over.

It's just that Campbell and Hleb were missing from the team celebrating the victory, and Campbell was in the south stand where the Gunners' die-hard fans were, covered in scarves thrown by fans, and the big man looked particularly emotional while closing the court, and frequently bowed like a fan.

On the other side, Hleb found Wenger, and once again met without the tension of the past, only a handshake, Hleb apologized to the professor for falling out with the club when he went to Barcelona, Wenger just smiled, patted his former disciple on the shoulder and asked him about the current situation in Portsmouth.

Football tells us the simplest truth, memories always erase the bad and leave the good, so that there is the meaning of reunion after a long absence.

A few minutes later, a sudden incident suddenly shattered the warmth on the pitch, and Campbell circled the pitch to thank all the Arsenal fans who had supported him, but there was an accident when he walked to the east stand.

Suddenly, a few of the sparse Arsenal fans took off their coats, revealing the cool and eye-catching bird stomping ball logo inside.

"Judas, Judas!!" The men shouted, pointing the finger at Thor. Campbell, that's what Tottenham fans call him.

Then there was a rain of coins in the stands, and because of the proximity, one of them hit him directly, and one of them jumped on his face, and his eyebrow bone immediately opened, and the blood flowed incessantly.

Boos rang out from the stands, and a few fans who were close enough to have a sense of justice rushed over to teach the daring Tottenham spies a lesson. These people were caught by the security guards who rushed after being punched in the stomach, and they had a hearty smile on their faces, and they didn't realize that they had been beaten at all, and the East Stand was in chaos!

This attitude of killing his father and taking his wife stunned some of the junior fans and Hydward present, and the only one who was calm was the well-informed Wenger, who asked the club staff to check on the situation and asked the team doctor to show Campbell.

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Campbell's feud with Tottenham can be traced back to the north London rivals.

Highbury and White Hart Lane, the famous of which is the 1927-1928 League One in the last century, the relegation battle that year was extremely tragic, Tottenham and Manchester United, Portsmouth in the last few rounds in order to fight for the relegation place and intractable, when Chapman-led Arsenal, in the game with Tottenham Hotspur played the main force and fought to cramps, but in the face of Tottenham's relegation opponents Manchester United, Portsmouth was on the bench, two games with zero points. With two precious three points, Manchester United and Portsmouth escaped, but Tottenham were relegated to the second division, in fact, Arsenal only need to win a point in either of the two games for Tottenham to land, but the whole Gunners team thinks why should I take this point?

Later, in the 1934-1935 season, Tottenham, who finally climbed back, was killed by Arsenal that season and was kicked back to League Two, and that year the Gunners won the domestic treble.

Even so, the selection of Tottenham's most hated opponents, Chapman, who has long been an old man, Henry, who scored wonderful goals in the derby and carved himself in front of the stadium gate, and Walcott, who was carried on a stretcher and taunted the opponent with a 2-0 gesture, will still choose D - Saul without hesitation. Campbell!

The reason for this is not as simple as turning to a mortal enemy.

This is not the first time that Tottenham have made an absolute major move to Arsenal, as Irish goalkeeper Jennings, who had been with the club for 13 years in 1977, switched to his sworn enemies on the grounds that the board had treated me badly and wanted revenge. There's nothing forgivable about that, but Campbell's nature is different.

He played for Tottenham for nine years, and his old club trained him from a stunned young man to the captain of the English national team and club, 00-01 season, the 26-year-old Campbell chose not to renew his contract with the club, and refused a contract with a weekly salary of 80,000, but at the end of the season he went to Arsenal on a free transfer through the Bosman Act, what is this behavior? It's like Gerrard crying at his peak and going to Manchester United!

Edward never asked him why he chose this way in the first place, and could only speculate through the few words revealed in media interviews, one, Arsenal can play in the Champions League, and he wants to go to a club that can play in the Champions League. Okay, but at the time Manchester United really wanted him. This is the second reason, there is a lot of money, a weekly salary of 100,000, the most in the Premier League, and a lot of signing fees are promised.

In the final analysis, money is still the original sin, and it is not a lie that you can become stronger by rushing Q coins, so Wenger still has to charge some Q coins, rush Q coins, Q coins......

Of course, Campbell himself gave the third answer - close to home, less than three kilometers in a straight line from White Hart Lane to Highbury, and he doesn't even have to move his home, he can walk to work every day, everything is so perfect.

Arsenal didn't spend a penny to acquire such a top-class centre-back, thus building an unbeaten division in the Premier League since then. Tottenham fans prepared swear-free signs and 40,000 balloons with "Judas" written on Campbell's first game back to White Hart Lane, and since then he has been reinvented ever since, going to Portsmouth and others scolding Portsmouth.

Crooked nuts are the top 10, the top ten traitors, and the first-place Campbell is actually ahead of the second-place Figo by more than 2 million votes.

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As a man with a 2 million vote lead over Figo, Saul held his head and looked calm, turning down the Arsenal doctor's request to show him, and he stepped forward to make eye contact with the shouting Tottenham fan.

The security guards at the scene were on standby, and the story of the player hitting someone was not unheard of in England, and the fans who kicked Cantona to fame are still vivid.

Naturally, Campbell had no intention of rushing to the stands to fight the football hooligans, nor did he report the situation to the game supervisor's behavior, but turned around and bent down to pick up the coins scattered on the ground, picked them up carefully, one by one, and blew the dust on them clean.

He jogged to a caddy in an Arsenal shirt on the sidelines, holding all the coins in his hand.

The caddy's face was full of incredulity, and he pushed back, "I can't ask for it, sir." ”

Campbell smiled, touched his head and said, "Take them, millionaires start with coins." ”

The Spurs fans in the stands were furious and were taken away by the security guards with a curse.

The post-game hiccup did not dampen Campbell's mood as he beckoned his team-mates to relax in Arsenal's treatment room as if it were his home, and the dashing Arsene Wenger acquiesced in the behaviour.

The professor took Hydward with him to the post-match press conference, followed by Mendy and Walcott, one humming and the other silent as a lamb.

'Your team is playing well,' said Arsene Wenger.