Lee Camp

Interviewed Camp the other day. Some interesting bits of info came of it...

It was part of a college course, so more of a Q+A/press conference type thing. He came to the place expecting an easy ride of it, probably general questions like "Do you have a dog?".

He got a fairly rough ride from me.

First question was "How's the contract talks going?" He laughed, and replied "No comment".

Pushed him a bit. Then he asked if I worked for The Sun!

Asked him about NI. He said he's given up "for now", although nothing's been made official. Sounds to me like a falling out with the manager. Asked about his realistic ambitions for NI... "Not losing 3-0 to Azerbaijan would be a start", he said.

Tried to skirt around the issue of contracts, and asked whether he thought that contracts running down could hinder the progress of the club. That sent him on a mini rant about the "bad management" from the top in previous years.

Said Billy Davies is the best manager he's worked with "by a mile". Asked why he's calmed himself down a bit, with less of the animatedness about him, and he put that down to BD not being here, who used to ask him to do it.

He also blasted fans who question any player's motivation. He can take criticism of performance, but every player goes out onto the pitch motivated, he said.

Asked whether he'd been paid on time.. He replied "Yeah, eventually", whilst laughing.

Pushed him right at the end about his contract again. Asked him for his Christmas present to me to be a signed contract. he said, "Nothing will happen over Christmas. Whatever happens does happen".

If you'd asked me before, I would've said he would be staying.

Ask me now? I reckon he's gone. Despite denying it, he still seems to hold a grudge over the club, in my opinion.

On a sidenote, he wants to get in a Boxing ring with Nathan Tyson.