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Unconfirmed rumours Super Kevin Campbell has passed away.
Norm has tweeted about it.

Yeah I've seen several tweets unofficially saying same.

Confirmed by BBC.

What a shame. Always seemed to be a real gentleman.

Danny Taylor has tweeted a picture of him and Chris Bart-Williams when they signed in 1995. Heartbreaking that both have gone at such a young age and within a year of each other.

How odd that the BBC headline said former Arsenal and Everton striker Kevin Campbell. I was unaware he even played in Scouseland.

Fucking media bias makes me sick.

Shame though as he was apparently a lovely bloke (see also Chris Bart Williams). Kev was my age. This makes me nervous.

Chicago: Former Amateur Footballer.

He played for Everton twice as long as he played for us.

And his best (only really good) year with us was in the Championship, so the BBC has no record of it.

He was also an instant hero at Everton, he came on loan when they looked a lock to go down and scored 9 goals in 8 games to rescue them. In contrast, he struggled badly when he joined us with both form and fitness, and as said above, never did anything for us in the top flight. If Premier League fans remember him at all as a Forest player, it's probably mostly as being the reason that PvH went on strike.

I just remember Kevin Campbell and Forest, in that season. Because.

Much as I do Bart-Man.

I knew neither personally, but I feel very sad about their being, y'know, dead. Inexplicably very sad.

EDITED. Neither. Either. Yeah .

Yeah, it's sad but it's a given that the European guys are going to start dying off given their ages.

For Bart and Campbell, from that 98 team, to both die inside a year hits hard.

I'd forgotten a bit how good he was: youtu.be/0mpvFZ0kzDg?si=Una10mfsZV4Xy_Au

Me too. That 97/98 season was probably my favourite ever as I managed to get to 40 out of the 46 matches. I've never experienced that feeling before - and who knows if I ever will again - of turning up at the ground (home or away) and thinking 'I wonder how many we'll win by today?'.

Bassett has said since that while PvH got more goals that season, many of them were free-kicks and penalties, whereas Campbell scored the majority of his from open play. He felt KC made the more significant all-round contribution (although some of that view might be because he considered PvH a cunt of the highest order).

It's an incredibly sad loss. Campbell always came across as a genuinely lovely bloke. Heartbreaking, too, to see CBW assisting so many of those goals in the promotion season.

Being pissed off at PvH really masked how stupid we were to sell Campbell.