No, we’re not talking Sebastian Coe here - he has made it absolutely clear he has another electoral priority this year much closer to his heart - but Sol Campbell, the former England, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur centre-back who wants to represent the blue corner and succeed the outgoing Boris Johnson.

Campbell, born 40 years ago in the Olympic heartland of Plaistow in East London, has emerged as something of a political footballer of late, lambasting the Labour leader Ed Miliband on Twitter during the party leaders’ TV debate as "not fit for purpose".

He also attacked the party’s policies despite admitting that he started out as a Labour supporter.

Campbell joined the Conservative party last year after criticising Labour’s proposed introduction of the mansion tax.

Of course, becoming one of football’s first British multi-millionaires with a lifestyle which includes a £25 million ($39 million/€35 million) mansion in Chelsea has not influenced his politically-conservative iota, has it?

Now he says he wants to give opportunities to the disadvantaged as he seeks approval to become the Conservative candidate next May’s mayoral election.

He admits he does not own an Oyster card - used on the London Underground - and has never used a "Boris Bike", although he says he has taken the bus.

Campbell, who won 73 England caps and is a veteran of three World Cups, also playing for Portsmouth and Newcastle United, is likely to be up against Richmond Park MP and favourite Zach Goldsmith in the battle to be picked for the Tories ahead of the May 2016 vote.

Campbell must impress the Tories in the initial hustings debate with other candidates on July 4 and win their approval when the final candidature decision is made in September.

He believes his approach to how he played football will assist him.

"Every time you go out on the pitch and say, ‘We aren't the favourites, I've got no chance', you get nowhere," he says.

"It's not all about celebrities, it's all about the right character, I want to bring people together.

“I’m going in with my eyes wide open. I know I’m not going to be a front-runner,”. I look at people who have been in politics for five, 10, 15 years, and muck up, you see them muck up and think, ‘You guys are supposed to be pro!’

“People that have gone to Oxbridge, had thousands spent on their education, and I mean they are royally mucking up.”

“I bring something new to the table.

This is a whole new road for me, something I can get my teeth into but I just felt it was something I had to do.

“I come from a working-class background, it wasn’t easy for me at all, but worked hard and now it’s about giving something back.”

But could he count on support from Spurs fans still bitter over his move to North London rivals Arsenal - they held up banners calling him "Judas"  when he returned to play for the Gunners at White Hart Lane?

"If we keep thinking about football, we're not going to do anything.

"We are dealing with people's lives here, I want to change London for everybody."

Personally, with all due to respect, I believe he would have about as much chance of becoming mayor as David Ginola has of being the next President of FIFA; but should he be the Tories’ shock Sol-mate it is possible that his Labour rival will be a Spurs fan - the Tottenham MP David Lammy.

However, it seems far more likely that the official Labour candidate will be someone who also would bring a decidedly sporting overtone to the election - the one-time Olympics Minister and 2012 Board member Dame Tessa Jowell, 67, who many believer would be the most popular choice to lead London politically.

So far Labour has six potential candidates, including MPs Lammy, Diane Abbott and Sadiq Khan so there seems a good chance that London’s next Mayor will be either female or from an ethnic minority.

Whoever wins sport will have to figure prominently on their agenda, as it has been with Bojo’s, with escalating criticism over the capital ’s 2012 legacy.

The manifesto, promised when winning the bid of an upsurge in physical activity among London’s young, like that of the nation’s, simply hasn’t happened.

In fact it is declining according to Sport England figures.

Also it has been revealed that the final bill for the conversion of the Olympic Stadium as a football venue, much of underwritten by public money, in time for West Ham United to move in for the 2016-2017 season (fingers crossed Slaven Bilic keeps the bubbles blowing the Premier League! ) now totals £701 million ($1.1 billion/€986 million).

This is fast approaching the cost of the national stadium at Wembley.

But back to those Sol Campbell/Seb Coe initials. Could it be that next year will feature yet another SC in a ballot box situation?

These belong to one Simon Clegg.

The Briton who has helped mastermind the inaugural European Games in Baku as the event’s chief executive may well be in line for another major role depending on what happens with his fellow SC – Sebastian Coe.

If Coe emerges as the victor over Sergey Bubka in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) vote in Beijing in August whether he could remain as chair of the British Olympic Association (BOA) must be open to question.

In all probability he could stay on until after the Rio Olympics a year from now but after that his IAAF duties surely would be too time-consuming.

I hear Clegg’s name now mentioned as a possible successor at the organisation where he was chief executive for 12 years until his fall-out with then chairman Lord Colin Moynihan.

He has also been chief executive at Ipswich Town Football Club and is well versed in Olympic matters so no doubt the BOA chair is a role he would relish.

However, there would be other credible contenders, all of them like Coe and Moynihan. ennobled: The former sports and Olympics Minister Sir Hugh Robertson, Olympic rowing legends Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent and Paralympic icon Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

But what if Lord Coe loses out to Bubka? There are still whispers around Westminster that some senior Tory figures privately even hope this might happen believing he could then be arm-twisted to re-think the offer he has consistently refused and run for Mayor.

I know Conservative Central Office consider he would be a shoo-in after his personal triumph of London 2012.

If Coe is gazumped by Bubka - and the current odds must be against it - interestingly he has no plans to stand again for his current position as a vice-president.

Thus the mayoral situation could become a whole new poll game.

Let’s wait and SC, shall we?