Harry Redknapp, Paul Ince, Sol Campbell and football's Top 10 Judas hate figures

Harry Redknapp returns to Upton Park tonight as his Spurs side take on former club West Ham.

Both the Tottenham chief and his Hammers counter-part Gianfranco Zola have been keen to play down the rivalry between the two clubs in order to ensure Redknapp doesn't get too rough a reception.

But with there being no love lost between the East End club and their North London rival, Harry could be in for an uncomfortable evening.

Although in all likelihood not as uncomfortable as the ones he's already endured at Portsmouth, or those suffered by Mirror.co.uk's other Top 10 Judas hate figures:

10) Lee Clarke
Newcastle born-and-bred, Clarke swapped the black and white stripes of the Toon for the red and white ones of local rivals Sunderland in 1997.

A key part of the record-breaking promotion winning side of 1999, Clarke had just about won the sceptical Sunderland fans over when he was pictured at that season's FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Newcastle wearing a t-shirt bearing the slogan 'Sad Mackem Bastards'.

Funnily enough, he was transfer listed immediately, and never played for Sunderland again.

9) Steve Bruce
It's probably quicker to list the clubs that don't harbour a grudge against the former Manchester United defender-turned-mercurial manager.

In 1999 Bruce quit as Sheffield United manager after one season, citing boardroom turmoil. In 2001, he pitched up at Wigan, but left two months later - following a Second Division play-off semi-final defeat - to take over at Crystal Palace.

Three months into the new season, he jumped ship to join Birmingham City. After an unprecedented six year stay at St Andres, he inevitably walked out on them too, to re-join Wigan in October 2007.

The moral if this story appears to be: if Steve Bruce takes over the reigns of your club, then don't bother naming your first-born after him.

8) Jermain Defoe
Another player about as popular in the East End as the Luftwaffe, Jermain Defoe infamously slapped a transfer request in less than 24 hours after West Ham's final day relegation from the Premier League in 2003.

That he eventually wound up at Spurs only served to fan the flames further, ensuring that the pint-sized England striker is now greeted with the cheery refrain 'You're just a short Paul Ince' every time he returns to E13.

7) Mo Johnston
Few people would be mad enough to further stoke up the pathological rivalry between Celtic and Rangers. But then few people are Mo Johnston.

Having enjoyed a reasonable spell at French club Nantes in the late '80s, the flame-haired Scot held a press conference to announce he'd re-join the Bhoys at the end of his contract.

When that time came, Johnston had a sudden change of heart, and opted to move to Ibrox instead.

Take into account the fact that Johnston was not only a former Celtic player, but also a Roman Catholic and you have that rare occurrence of a player who is hated equally by fans on both side of the divide.

6) Alan Smith
A product of Leeds' youth system, a lifelong fan of the side and a local boy from Rothwell to boot, Smith naturally nurtured an extreme hatred of his side's Lancastrian rivals Manchester United.

Indeed, when asked in 2002 by TV show Soccer AM which team he would never sign for, young Smudge made his feelings quite clear, categorically answering: 'Manchester United'.

So you can't blame the Leeds fans for making their feelings quite clear two years later when Smith was sacrificed following the team's relegation from the Premier League and joined… Manchester United.

5) Niko Krancjar
When the then 20 year old Croatian star made the transition from Dinamo Zagreb to rivals Hadjuk Split, 10 000 people turned out to welcome him at the stadium.

Back in Zagreb, a smaller but no less committed group of Dinamo fans had a party of their own, lighting 200 candles in front of Krancjar's old Zagreb house "in the memory of Niko's honour, which is now dead", as one fan put it.

4) Harry Redknapp
Tonight's game won't be the first time Harry Redknapp has been tarred with the turncoat brush. In fact, having left Portsmouth to manage hated rivals Southampton in 2004, and then made the return journey a year later, he should be used to it.

The South Coast stand-off reached its nadir on April 23, 2005 when Pompey beat Redknapp's Southampton 4-1 in what would become the latter's relegation season. Harry's ears are probably still ringing from the abuse he received that weekend.

Many Portsmouth fans used the Saints' relegation to reconcile Redknapp's return to Fratton Park, convincing themselves he was some sort of some sort of double agent. All that went out the window when the manager upped sticks to Tottenham last October - after claiming he would end his career on the South Coast. Judas it is, then…

3) Luis Figo
You'd think the world-record £38m transfer fee Real Madrid paid for the services of Luis Figo would have placated most Barcelona fans, but you'd think wrong.

When Figo returned to the Camp Nou for the first time in 2001, a scientific study carried out by a Spanish TV channel showed that the jeers and whistles that greeted him would have drowned out a jet plane taking off from Barcelona airport.

Upon his next visit in 2002, Figo was serenaded with sustained chants of Pesetero (trans: "money whore") and a hail of objects, including coins, whiskey bottles and, courtesy of one group of hardened haters, an actual pig's head.

The head, in case you were wondering, is now on permanent display is Essen's Kultort Museum as a symbol of soccer fanaticism.

2) Paul Ince
Harry Redknapp can rest assured that any abuse he gets tonight will be as nothing compared to that dished out previously to Paul Ince at Upton Park.

The current Blackburn boss began his playing career at West Ham as a schoolboy, but left the club in controversial circumstances in 1989 after the Daily Express published a photograph of Ince in full Manchester United kit before the deal was done.

Despite Ince's protestations that the photograph hadn't been intended for publication and that he was an innocent victim, Hammers fans never forgave their former hero, calling him Judas to this day.

1) Sol Campbell
For nine years, Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell was a Lilywhite legend, appearing over 250 times for Spurs and captaining the side to League Cup glory in 1999.

Then, in the summer of 2001, he not just decided to leave the club on a 'Bosman' free transfer, but also chose to relocate a mile or so up the road at Highbury. Having previously said in print that he would never play for Arsenal.

Spurs fans marked Sol's first appearance in red and white at White Hart Lane by printing up balloons and posters bearing the legend 'Judas' and then burning an effigy of him outside the ground.

Remarkably, their relationship has actually deteriorated since, arguably reaching its nadir when Spurs fans aimed racist chants at the now Portsmouth defender when the two teams met at Fratton Park this season.

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