LEE CAMP ON SAFC MOVE

Lee Camp has given a refreshing and honest assessment about his awful loan spell at Sunderland which ended in relegation under Chris Coleman.

WASN'T READY FOR IT

“I got a call saying, 'do you want to go to Sunderland and you'll play Saturday against Ipswich?' And you sit there and you think, I'm not ready for this, but your ego kicks in and your pride kicks in. I sat with Bryce, and Bryce was like, well, why not? What's the worst that can happen? Unfortunately, the worst did. I'm standing in the tunnel at the Stadium of Light. And you're like thinking, wow, Jesus, what am I doing here? And it went downhill pretty quick from there.”

DOESN'T SIT WELL

“It's one that still doesn't really sit well with me because you go in and fail. I always like to think, although some clubs I've left with baggage, I've always contributed and left a positive effect. That was just one place that it just didn't work, just couldn't get going. It was nowhere near what was needed.”

BEYOND SAVING

“That club was beyond saving, like Superman couldn't have saved that. Everything about the place was just rotten to the core. It was just hangover from the Premier League, hangover that they didn't want to be in. They thought they were too good to be in the Championship.”

ROCK BOTTOM

“It needed to hit rock bottom, which it did, to bounce back. But it felt like everything should be streamlined, be there to do a job, to win a game of football and get out. And it just seems as if the football was almost like the second priority there.”

FANS THINK I'M CRAP... I AM CRAP

“It’s a shame because the fans deserve better, deserve better because they're great fans. I know like they hate me and they think I'm crap, which the evidence is there to suggest (that I was).”