Jeffing Marvellous

Sol Campbell has decided to abandon ambitious League Two upstarts Notts County – just four days after making his debut.

Despite earning 40k per week – more than the entire

Campbell obviously still fancies a bit more of this

wage budget of most League Two clubs – the reality of life in the Football League’s musty old basement was clearly too real for the “Sol Man” to bear.

According to the club’s official statement, he “could not adjust to the long-term nature of the project under way at Notts County”. I’ve translated that as “thought he’d be winning every game, underestimated the physical demands of the league and wants to join a Premier League club that doesn’t make its defenders run so much”.

Interestingly, the only Premier League club in with a chance of signing Campbell is Tottenham, the club he controversially left for free in 2001. Free agents can only be signed if they were released by their club before the transfer window closed (the deadline passed on 1^st September), but teams can request special dispensation if, for example, they have an injury crisis.

All four of Spurs’s first-team central defenders are injured and Harry Redknapp is apparently still in love with Campbell. Tottenham fans would have to find a way to extinguish the burning hatred for their former idol, but then, stranger things have happened. Pompey fans accepted Redknapp back with open arms after he returned from bitter rivals Southampton and it wouldn’t surprise me if the same thing were to happen at White Hart Lane.

So, here it is: Sol Campbell is going  back to Spurs. You heard it here first. Probably.