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Originally Posted by BBKing
All of which is a hell of a lot of effort and skill in order to have enough money to relieve us of Kevin Campbell. Cheers for that!
Pointless fact - Forest are the only side Ian Wright ever get sent off against playing for Arsenal. He tried hard against everybody else, mind you...
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1- Kev Campbell: give the guy credit, he was OK when he wasn't injured. When he got good Irving S*holar decided to flog him to Trabzonspor for 3m (incidentally a 0.5m profit on the 2.5m we paid) against the wishes of both the player and harry bassett... the money from that was from the sale of Collymore to Liverpool (record 8.5m) of which the other money went on Chris Bart-Williams (2.5m from Sheff Weds) and Andrea Silenzi (1.5m from Torino) - the latter despite being Maradona's strike partner in Napoli couldn't "hit a back door with a banjo".
2- Ian Wright: remember it well, we were last in the league having not won since opening day (ironically a Campbell hat-trick 3-0 win v Coventry), Arsenal were top. And we're talking December as well. Arsenal take the lead and we think "oh here we go again" before an Alfie Haaland double overturns it for a 2-1 win to the Reds. Not bad, considering it was Psycho's first game as manager and the night before when picking the team with his wife he forgot to pick a keeper (and had 11 outfielders) :lol: We did OK for the first 6 weeks of Pearce's tenure until S*holar brought in hoofer Bassett and then we didn't win until the end of the season and went down
only for van Hooijdonk and Campbell to tear the first division apart the season after. And the rest is history.