The Portsmouth captain was on the receiving end of a barrage of abuse last Saturday, when his current club faced Tottenham Hotspur, where he began his career.

Many Spurs fans have still not forgiven Campbell for joining bitter rivals Arsenal on a free transfer after he had let his contract run out in 2001.

He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that banning or fining offenders is not enough and that he plans to meet  the FA to discuss the matter further, although he feels they should have acted already.

He said: "People say you’ve got to be immune to this... but I am playing football, I should not be subjected to that kind of abuse, it’s out of order now.

“If this happened on the street, you would be arrested.

And referring to the FA he said: “They have let us down because they have allowed this to continue, sat idle, head in the sand, and tried to brush it under the carpet.”

“You look at the clubs and ask them to control their fans, or fines or anything. You have to do it in another way.”

The Football Association insisted they did have measures in place to deal with anti-social behaviour at football matches but it was down to individual clubs to enforce the rules.

An FA spokesman said: “There is legislation in place to deal with abusive, threatening and racist behaviour by ejecting and arresting offending individuals. Put simply, it is against the law.

“The FA lobbied hard for such tough policies. It is for individual clubs - working with the police if necessary - to enforce these laws.

“At Wembley games, which the FA are responsible for, people have been ejected and arrested for this type of behaviour.

“The FA supports football banning orders against anyone arrested for violent or racist behaviour and there were 3,500 in place ahead of last year’s World Cup.”

Campbell is not the first Portsmouth employee to react angrily to abuse from the stands. Earlier this month Harry Redknapp claimed that he was barracked for  most of his sides game at Aston Villa, following his arrest by fraud police in late November.

He said: “There were people behind me shouting filth.

“What really does my head in and what really turned my stomach was that there were people shouting this filth who had children with them.

"I do get upset because I was brought up different and I’ve never sworn in front of my children.

They should be ashamed of themselves as parents. Do we have to keep accepting this filth?”

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