Sol Campbell fears Tottenham chanting has 'morphed into racism'

Sol Campbell said Tottenham fans still chant derogatory things about him despite leaving 25 years ago

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00:00I've had that before with my move to from Tottenham to Arsenal.

00:04They're still singing about things about me in the stands.

00:07I left 25 years ago.

00:09Okay, for me, it's probably was anger, but then I think it's moved

00:13into like racism where I continue for no reason.

00:17Some kids are 18 years old are chanting

00:21and singing horrendous things about me, and they weren't even born.

00:25You know, sometimes they don't even know what they're singing about.

00:27It's like, no, maybe they think it's cool to sing horrible,

00:31heinous things about, you know, wishing you're dead or whatever,

00:34racist things is we should find a way of, you know, that is the fault.

00:39Why is the fault always default position racism?

00:44Why that that has to change?

00:46You know, you can support your club.

00:48You can do this. You can do that.

00:49You can put off the other players or whatever.

00:52But why does it have to default always to racism?

00:56It shouldn't be that way.

00:57So obviously education comes into it, but then the football club has

01:00to do something about it as well.

01:02They've got to be, you know, saying and talking

01:05and having seminars and things like that to educate, you know,

01:08with the leaders of the supported clubs.

01:11The leaders of the supported clubs, they control.

01:13They're very powerful guys in football clubs when it comes to fans.

01:18They need to kind of come on board,

01:20not like we're just some different company.

01:22We can do whatever the hell we want.

01:25That has to change as well.

01:27That communication with the big guys, with part of the ultra fans,

01:31whatever, every club's got some type of ultra fans within them.

01:35So that discussion needs to happen at a higher level and say, hey,

01:39you know, we've got to move on here.

01:41We've got to move on.

01:42That's like, you know, we're still in a time capsule of like

01:4780s, you know, beyond.

01:49Let's move on now.

01:5021st century, let's move on.

01:52That story has to end.

01:53We have to close that book and open a new book for the future of football.