The Arsenal and Portsmouth star who was the worst trainer former Liverpool and Spurs striker Peter Crouch played with

The former Pompey striker has told how the man who lifted the Cup in 2008 would duck out of sessions in his time at Fratton Park.

Crouch explained how Campbell would prefer to have a massage rather than take part in training when he was playing under Harry Redknapp.

The 6ft 7in front man gave the response when asked who were the best and worst players for training in his Daily Mail column.

Crouch said: ‘The worst has to be Sol Campbell at Portsmouth.

‘He had reached the end of his career by then and he'd probably lost some of his enthusiasm.

‘You'd see him in the masseurs room of a morning, getting his legs rubbed, and Harry Redknapp would shout to him: “You out today, Sol?”.

‘”Not today” would come the reply. He'd get plenty of stick for it but he felt he'd earned the right to do that and his performances at the weekend were never below par.

‘I should add that I was a kid at Spurs with Sol and he was a brilliant trainer then.’