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'{{otherpersons|Kevin Campbell}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Kevin Campbell | image = | fullname = Kevin Joseph Campbell | height = {{height|ft=6|in=2}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|2|4|df=y}} | cityofbirth = [[Lambeth]], [[London]] | countryofbirth = [[England]] | currentclub = | position = [[Striker]] (retired) | youthyears1= 1985&ndash;1988 | youthclubs1= [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] | years1 = 1988&ndash;1995 | years2 = 1989 | years3 = 1989 | years4 = 1995&ndash;1998 | years5 = 1998&ndash;1999 | years6 = 1999 | years7 = 1999&ndash;2005 | years8 = 2005&ndash;2006 | years9 =2006&ndash;2007 | clubs1 = [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] | clubs2 = → [[Leyton Orient F.C.|Leyton Orient]] (loan) | clubs3 = → [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] (loan) | clubs4 = [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] | clubs5 = [[Trabzonspor]]<ref>[http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=5527 Kevin Campbell - Everton FC], Football-Heroes.net</ref> | clubs6 = → [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] (loan) | clubs7 = [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] | clubs8 = [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] | clubs9 = [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]]<ref>Source: [http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=1273 SoccerBase.com stats] {{en icon}}</ref> | caps1 = 166 | goals1 = 46 | caps2 = 16 | goals2 = 9 | caps3 = 11 | goals3 = 5 | caps4 = 80 | goals4 = 32 | caps5 = 17 | goals5 = 5 | caps6 = 8 | goals6 = 9 | caps7 = 137 | goals7 = 36 | caps8 = 45 | goals8 = 6 | caps9 = 19 | goals9 = 0 | totalcaps = 499 | totalgoals = 148 | nationalyears1 = 1990&ndash;1992 | nationalyears2 =1991 | nationalteam1 = [[England national under-21 football team|England U21]] | nationalteam2 =[[England B national football team|England B]] | nationalcaps1 = 4 | nationalgoals1 = 1 | nationalcaps2 = 1 | nationalgoals2 = 0 | pcupdate = 20:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC) | ntupdate = 20:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC) }} '''Kevin Joseph Campbell''' (born 4 February 1970 in [[Lambeth]], [[London]]) is an [[England|English]] former [[Association football|football]] player who played as a [[striker]]. ==Playing career== Campbell began his career as a trainee with [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]], joining the club on schoolboy forms in 1985. He had a prolific run in the club's youth team (with whom he won the [[FA Youth Cup]] and scored 59 goals in a season), but despite making his first-team debut against [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] on 7 May 1988, the forward positions were usually taken by [[Paul Merson]] and [[Alan M. Smith|Alan Smith]]. Campbell came to prominence during a loan spell at [[Leyton Orient F.C.|Leyton Orient]] in 1989, when he scored 9 goals in 16 games; Orient manager [[Frank Clark (footballer)|Frank Clark]] wanted to make the move permanent but Arsenal refused to sell. After a poor start to the [[1989-90 in English football|1989-90]] season he was again loaned out, this time to [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]. However, the following season ([[1990-91 in English football|1990-91]]) he established himself in the Arsenal team, scoring eight times in ten matches during the run-in to the club's [[Football League First Division|First Division]] title win. Despite Arsenal signing [[Ian Wright]] in September 1991, Campbell continued to play for Arsenal, although he was often overshadowed by his more prolific partner. Nevertheless, he scored some crucial goals for Arsenal, including last-minute equalisers against [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] and [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] in Arsenal's successful [[FA Cup]] and [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] campaigns in [[1992-93 in English football|1992-93]]. The following season he scored 19 (his best single season for the Gunners) and won the [[Cup Winners' Cup]], but his form deserted him in [[1994-95 in English football|1994-95]], and the arrivals of [[John Hartson]] and [[Dennis Bergkamp]] threatened his place in the side. In all he played 224 times for Arsenal, scoring 59 goals. In the summer of 1995 Campbell was sold to former European champions [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]] for £3m, where he spent three seasons. He was part of the team that was relegated in 1997, but his 23 goals the following season helped a return to the top flight at the first attempt. However, Campbell controversially left Forest at the end of that season to join [[Turkey|Turkish]] side [[Trabzonspor]], causing Forest team-mate Pierre van Hooijdonk to go "on strike".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2002/may/05/europeanfootball.sport|title=Fans hand it to proud Pi-Air|author=Simon Kuper |publisher=''[[The Observer]]''|date=5 May 2002|accessdate=14 April 2010|location=London}}</ref> His time in [[Trabzon]] was brief and unhappy; he left the club after seven months after a [[Racism|racist]] incident involving the club president, [[Mehmet Ali Yılmaz]], who called him a "discoloured cannibal" and also criticised him by saying "We bought him as a goal machine, but he turned out to be a [[washing machine]]".<ref>Source: [http://dosyalar.hurriyet.com.tr/fix98/panaroma98/pano21.htm Hurriyet Newspaper] 23 February 1999 {{tr icon}}</ref> He was very popular during his time at the club with the fans. To show solidarity with him when he asked to leave following this incident, the two club captains, [[Ogün Temizkanoğlu]] and [[Abdullah Ercan]], were with him during his press conference in which he stated his reasons for leaving. Everton, who were battling against relegation from the [[Premier League]], signed Campbell on loan in March 1999. His impact on the side was immediate as he scored 9 goals in 8 games, making him Everton's top goalscorer that season and saving them from the drop. His 6 goals in his first 3 games earned him the April player of the month award, the first on-loan player ever to win it. Campbell's move to Everton was made permanent in the summer of 1999 for a fee of £3million. In the first half of the [[1999-2000 in English football|1999-2000 season]], he scored Everton's winning goal in the [[Merseyside derby]] at [[Anfield]] against [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1122702/Liverpool-v-Everton--Sportsmails-10-Merseyside-derbies.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Laura | last=Williamson | title=Liverpool v Everton - Sportsmail's top 10 Merseyside derbies | date=19 January 2009}}</ref> He was Everton's leading goalscorer for both of the following two seasons, scoring 12 and 9 goals respectively, although Everton remained disappointing in the Premier League as they finished in the bottom half of the table both times during a run of bottom-half finishes which lasted from 1997 to 2002. After scoring only 4 goals during the [[2001-02 in English football|2001-02]] campaign, he was once again the club's top goalscorer the following year when he scored 10 times. This would prove to be Campbell's final season as first-choice for Everton as he struggled to battle both injuries and the emergence of a number of strikers, in particular [[Wayne Rooney]]. Campbell left in January 2005 on a free transfer to [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]], who were bottom of the Premiership.<ref>{{cite news |date=2005-01-10 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/e/everton/4158939.stm |title=West Brom sign striker Campbell |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=2007-04-30}}</ref> He was appointed team captain shortly after his arrival and successfully led the club to Premiership survival (this was the first time that a club which had been bottom of the league on [[Christmas Day]] had survived relegation). However, in May 2006, after WBA's relegation to the [[Football League Championship|Championship]], Campbell was released by the club. He signed for [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]] on a free transfer on 2 August 2006.<ref>{{cite news |date=2006-08-02 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/5239542.stm |title=Bluebirds secure Campbell signing |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=2007-04-30}}</ref> He scored his first and only goal for the first team in an [[FAW Premier Cup]] quarter-final match away at [[Carmarthen Town F.C.|Carmarthen Town]] on February 13, 2007, and was released by the club in May 2007,<ref>{{cite news |date=2007-05-16 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/6661557.stm |title= Thompson heads Cardiff clear-out |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=2007-08-31}}</ref> subsequently retiring from the game to pursue business interests. His final competitive appearance came against former club West Brom on 20 February 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/6371203.stm |title=West Brom 1-0 Cardiff |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=20 February 2007 |accessdate=30 December 2010}}</ref> Campbell earned 4 caps for the [[England national under-21 football team|England U-21s]] and 1 for [[England B national football team|England B]]. He has the distinction of being the English player who has scored the most goals in the Premier League without earning an England cap.{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}} ==Business interests== He ran his own record label, '2 Wikid', with rapper [[Mark Morrison]] the label's first signing.<ref>{{cite news |date=2003-10-01 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/3155902.stm |title=Campbell has a Wicked time |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=2007-04-30}}</ref> But in December 2004, with the artist still signed to 2 Wikid, Campbell was forced to obtain a court injunction against rival label [[Jet Star]], in order to prevent it from releasing Morrison's album ''[[Innocent Man]]''.<ref>{{cite news |date=2004-12-13 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4090553.stm |title=Court halts Mark Morrison album |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2007-04-30}}</ref> The injunction was lifted shortly afterwards,<ref>{{cite news |date=2004-12-22 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4119183.stm |title=R&B star wins court album battle |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2007-04-30}}</ref> and the album was eventually released sometime later. Campbell was featured on the [[Sky Sports]] series "Where are They Now?" in 2008, when he was the co-owner of a security company "T1 Protection", specialising in supplying bodyguards to celebrities and other wealthy customers whilst traveling abroad. He also commentated with [[Asia]]-based [[TEN Sports]] for their [[Premier League]] and [[UEFA champions league|Champions League]] coverage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,136841,00.html|title=Football round the clock}}</ref> ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{soccerbase|id=1273|name=Kevin Campbell}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME = Campbell, Kevin | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 4 February 1970 | PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Lambeth]], [[London]], [[England]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Kevin}} [[Category:1970 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Lambeth]] [[Category:Association football forwards]] [[Category:English footballers]] [[Category:Black British sportspeople]] [[Category:English expatriate footballers]] [[Category:England under-21 international footballers]] [[Category:England B international footballers]] [[Category:Premier League players]] [[Category:The Football League players]] [[Category:Arsenal F.C. players]] [[Category:Cardiff City F.C. players]] [[Category:Everton F.C. players]] [[Category:Leicester City F.C. players]] [[Category:Leyton Orient F.C. players]] [[Category:Nottingham Forest F.C. players]] [[Category:Trabzonspor footballers]] [[Category:West Bromwich Albion F.C. players]] [[Category:Süper Lig players]] [[Category:Expatriate footballers in Turkey]] [[da:Kevin Campbell]] [[de:Kevin Campbell]] [[fr:Kevin Campbell]] [[it:Kevin Campbell]] [[he:קווין קמפבל]] [[pl:Kevin Campbell]] [[sv:Kevin Campbell]] [[tr:Kevin Campbell]]'