Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Sol Campbell threat over Rio Ferdinand
SOL CAMPBELL, the ex-England centre-back, said last night he would give back all his caps if it emerged Rio Ferdinand was not selected for Euro 2012 for race reasons.
Campbell said that “if it is ever proven true that John Terry was chosen over Rio because of race then I would tell the FA that they can take back my 73 caps and scrub my name out of the record books.
“I would no longer want to be known as someone who played for England – that would be the end for me. At the very least Rio should have been given the opportunity to say “no, I don’t want to be in the same squad as John Terry.”
Campbell, writing in a newspaper column, added: “The further this saga drags on the more it does not make sense and the more it undermines Roy Hodgson and the Football Association as a whole.
More...
• Poland guarantee Euro 2012 safety and criticise Sol Campbell
I would no longer want to be known as someone who played for England
• Sol Campbell: Boycott the Euro 2012 Nazis
“We have now reached a point where big questions have to be asked over Rio Ferdinand’s exclusion from England’s squad for Euro 2012, such as what are the real reasons, and why? And is there a cover-up?
“Hodgson should have spoken to him man-to-man, face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball and seen where he was at.” FA chairman David Bernstein, in Krakow, refused to discuss Ferdinand’s exclusion, saying it was now an “historical” issue