Sol Campbell claimed that he left Tottenham after they tried to get one about him “after his arrest for a broken.
The former defender sent shock waves through football when he stopped traces for Arsenal in 2001.
Campbell, 50, expired his contract before he signed for the Gunners for free.
The East London had come to Tottenham by the ranks, but decided to make the unthinkable switch to Arsenal after being disillusioned after a legal matter.
Campbell appeared on the stick to the football podcast, offered by Sky Bet, Campbell told Gary Neville and Co: “The most important thing for me was that they never paid the young people who grew up good money.
“If someone is bought, they would put him for a lot of money, but players who came through the ranks who would be the future of the club, they would not want to pay them. It was bizarre.
“In the future it was four years [my contract]. The next four years was a difficult moment, because I went in the right direction and my contract ended.
“The thing for me was that I had a problem in a certain game that stuck for 15 months, and it all started from a match against Derby County, with two more years left [on my contract].
“The problem was that you had Colin Calderwood, who played next to me, and he had a Barney in the game all day [Francesco] Baiano, and I didn't know why.
“I scored the winner, the game ended 1-0, everyone was happy and I got off the field. While I walk into our dressing room, he [Colin] Walks past me and jumps in the dressing room of Derby County, looking for Baiano.
“So, everyone jumped in and I said,” F *** him, whatever, let's go back to the dressing room. ” I said it three times.
“Three weeks later David pleat comes to me and says I have a letter that says someone [a steward from Derby County] Has their arm or wrist broken and I said: 'What do you mean? I didn't do anything ' – I went inside [to the changing room after the game].
“Three weeks later it goes on and the steward that broke his wrist is looking for charges. I thought what was going on here because I had done nothing.
“So it just rolls on, I have had sworn explanations and people have to come in for character – witnesses, and then I am drawn up there – I am in the police station of Derby, it is a mess.
“I get a fingerprint and my photo taken and at the same time there are people who ask me for signatures. I thought:” Will I be arrested for something I didn't do? ” That took 15 months and I thought it went on for so long because I had done nothing.
“Just before the case I had an internal lawyer [from Tottenham] He said there was a fragment, a gentleman who was bound. I said, “What do you mean by bridging?” Bound means that you allow it, pay a fine and it all goes away.
“But I said I wouldn't do it, I live and die because of my words – I did nothing. I have left it, things go on and the case is about a month away and Tottenham says they are withdrawing – withdrawing financing, not paying for everything, so I had to pay for everything.
“My lawyers are starting to search all the paperwork and could not understand how it all went on for so long because [someone said] You are in front [during the incident]Another person said you were on the side – it was everywhere, so how had it continued for so long?
“Ten days before the case they fall out and the case is dropped. In the paperwork there was an old fax when they sent it to me and on the day you saw a name scrubbed and then placed a Derby County player in it.
'I should have done this [incident] at ten to five, but in the hospital report he had [the steward] Had done it on half-paste ten, pre-match. He had done it [broken his arm or wrist] Pre-match. “
'A Nonsense Deal'
Asked if Tottenham Chiefs knew that the steward had sustained his injury before the competition, Campbell added: “Or the hierarchy did it or the lawyers. It tried to get one over me, so if it came out, I would sign a nonsense deal. I think it was all about the deal.”
The former international English international, who felt that Spurs had tried to use the derby incident in contract negotiations, added: “They wanted to get one over me or have leverage over me. It is as if Virgil van Dijk is now going through his contract situation and is now trying to pin something on him – it is the same.
“In the Sky documentary you argued David saying that Alan Sugar wanted to get me out of the first team, and from England, to hit me on the wrist, so I would come to my senses and sign a nonsense deal.
“Once that happened once [the legal incident]I didn't have time for that [signing a new contract] – They literally tried to put me away without reason.
“You start thinking about how people are innocent and are stored for something they hadn't done.
“For me, to go around to banks or anywhere, people look at me and think that I have failed someone's wrist, but it was someone else, a South American player. It's sad, it's incredible. You are a young boy who comes out and they try to pin that on you.”
On what encouraged him to sign for the fierce rivals of Tottenham, Campbell revealed: “For me, the episode of trying to frame me for no reason, my decision really ruled, and I wanted to win.”
And further questioned when he took the step to come back to Spurs, he added: “No revenge, but if you look at it, I would be done for no reason. I had not decided where I went, but my way of thinking changed afterwards.”
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