Sol Campbell is set to have the backing of the Professional Footballers’ Association Chief Executive Gordon Taylor during his appeal to the Premier League over the ability to join another club before the January window opens up after walking away from his contract with Sven Goran Eriksson and Notts County.

Via Guardian 

Under Fifa rules, Campbell is barred from signing for another club until the new year after he walked out on Notts County last month. But the 35-year-old, who is known to have attracted interest from Hull City, has enlisted the help of the Professional Footballers’ Association to fight his case as he seeks to prove that there were exceptional reasons behind his decision to break his contract at Meadow Lane.

“He can make an appeal to the Premier League, to Sir David Richards [the chairman] and Richard Scudamore [the chief executive] with regard to the reasons why he should be given special exemption to sign for another club [before January]. And I think he might want to do that,” Gordon Taylor, the PFA’s chief executive, said. “There would be a few hoops to jump through and he would have to cite exceptional circumstances.”

The strength of Campbell’s case is unclear but it is understood that he harboured concerns about the financial situation at Notts County, including doubts about the source of the funding. His own salary package appears to have included a separate contract that related to ambassadorial work he would have been expected to carry out for another company, Swiss Commodity Holding, of which Peter Willett, who sits on the County board, is a director.