Kevin Joseph Campbell (4 February 1970 – 15 June 2024) was an English professional footballer, sports television pundit and commentator.
A striker, Campbell played in the Premier League for Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Everton and West Bromwich Albion.
Campbell helped see the club to promotion during that season but did not play in their victorious playoff final against Wrexham as his loan spell had just ended.
The following season, he established himself in the Arsenal team, scoring eight times in ten matches during the run-in to the club's First Division title win.
His six goals, which were scored in his first three games, earned him Everton's player of the month award for April, making him the first loanee to be bestowed with the title.
[16] Campbell is Everton's fifth-highest Premier League goalscorer, behind Romelu Lukaku, Duncan Ferguson, Tim Cahill and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
[17] Campbell moved to West Bromwich Albion in January 2005 on a free transfer[18] and helped the club retain its Premiership status.
in 2008, when he was the co-owner of security company T1 Protection, specialising in supplying bodyguards to celebrities and other wealthy customers whilst travelling abroad.
[25] Campbell ran a record label, 2 Wikid, first signing rapper Mark Morrison, who had previously topped the charts with "Return of the Mack" in 1996.
[26] In December 2004, he obtained a court injunction against rival label Jet Star to prevent it from releasing Morrison's album, Innocent Man.
[32] On Campbell's death, Everton called him "not just a true Goodison Park hero and icon of the English game, but an incredible person as well".