If Harry Redknapp thinks that the worst insult that can be dished out to Judas Campbell is a thinly veiled dig from Tottenham’s Egyptian striker Mido about Campbell being the “easiest defender he’s ever played against” then he may wear the same kind of expression on his face tomorrow at White Hart Lane as Mary Whitehouse would at a skin flick being shown on BBC1 after the 5 o’clock news.

Mido’s timing mightn’t have been great some say (including ‘Appy ‘Arry) as all he has to do for a teamtalk is pin the newspaper clipping up on the wall to get Judas all fired up and ready for action. I disagree. I see a young player getting a chance to show that he really listens to what the fans are concerned about and even though it is years since that fateful day there are few incidents that wind Tottenham fans up more than S*l Campbell’s lies and deceit and subsequent move to the Goons.

Other fans of other clubs can’t understand the level of dislike and in many cases hatred for the man and that’s for one simple reason: it’s never happened to any other club the way it happened to Spurs.

Campbell was a Spurs youth product, a player nurtured from an early age and brought through as a youngster mainly under Ossie Ardiles and Gerry Francis as a Tottenham Hotspur player at the highest level. He was our captain, an England international, a high profile, highly sought after player with clubs all around Europe interested in buying him but mainly he was one of us.

Or so we thought. I won’t go back through the timeline of events, statements from the player full of lies and the final blade in the back when he was paraded as an Arsenal player (I covered it in this article - The Lure of the Bosman Transfer) but to read through it all still brings those old feelings back for me and other Spurs fans and I won’t ever forget how he treated our club and our fans.

Campbell got more than 30 pieces of silver for what he did but his subsequent mental problems which spelt the end of his Gooner career must mask the guilty conscience that eats away at him every day. He’ll know as soon as he steps out of the tunnel exactly what the Spurs fans still think of him and it won’t take a newspaper quote from a young player eager to please the fans of his club to remind him.

In a week where Harry Redknapp publically defended his friend Kevin Bond who had been caught red handed admitting that both he and Harry would talk over taking illegal payments in player transfers I think Mido should take his lessons in etiquette from someone in football who doesn’t have such a tarnished image as Dirty Harry. I think that leaves pretty much everyone else in the game.

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