{"id":9725,"date":"2024-06-16T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T08:02:44","slug":"super-kevin-campbell-1970-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/?p=9725","title":{"rendered":"Super Kevin Campbell, 1970 &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-16-at-09.34.39-1024x820.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9726\" width=\"568\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-16-at-09.34.39-1024x820.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-16-at-09.34.39-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-16-at-09.34.39-768x615.png 768w, https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-16-at-09.34.39-75x60.png 75w, https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-16-at-09.34.39.png 1202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A dynamic centre forward, a lifelong Gooner and, by every single account, a lovely man. Kevin was truly a gentle giant. Very few compare. A good man taken far too soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our thoughts are with Kevin&#8217;s family and his friends. Kevin will also be missed by a far wider circle: by those who watched him play for the Arsenal and for Nottingham Forest, Trabzonspor, Everton, West Brom or Cardiff City and by those who were privileged to hear or read Kevin&#8217;s pearls of wisdom on social media in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some excellent tributes out there from people who have met Kevin. Amy Lawrence&#8217;s tribute in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5553100\/2024\/06\/15\/kevin-campbell-arsenal-obituary\/\">Athletic<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/kevin-campbell-1970-2024\">Arsenal<\/a> tribute are two of the best. <a href=\"https:\/\/arseblog.com\/2024\/06\/super-kev\/\">Blogs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/shewore.com\/2024\/06\/16\/memories-of-super-kevin-campbell\/\">Gav<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.le-grove.co.uk\/p\/rest-in-peace-kevin-campbell\">Pedro<\/a> and, especially, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thegoonerspod\/status\/1802053552442880111?s=61&amp;t=cVFjCyGkt4y-Ne45LtfqkQ\">Mike Feinstein<\/a> give insights into Kevin&#8217;s warm and generous personality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RIP Super Kevin Campbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dynamic centre forward, a lifelong Gooner and, by every single account, a lovely man. Kevin was truly a gentle giant. Very few compare. A good man taken far too soon. Our thoughts are with Kevin&#8217;s family and his friends. Kevin will also be missed by a far wider circle: by those who watched him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9737,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions\/9737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goonerholicsforever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}